March 10, 2011 at 12:17 pm
It’s hard to believe that extinction is happening right before our eyes. There are five primary causes: habitat fragmentation, pollution, introduction of invasive species, overexploitation and climate change. Here is a list of ten species that have been declared extinct so far this century. These are masterpieces of nature that we can no longer enjoy. […]
March 10, 2011 at 10:37 am
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Unsourced
February 25, 2011 at 3:25 pm
Woody Allen gives a comical and tongue-in-cheek summary, complete with excerpt, of Nietzsche’s alleged lost book on dieting to The New Yorker: No philosopher came close to solving the problem of guilt and weight until Descartes divided mind and body in two, so that the body could gorge itself while the mind thought, Who cares, […]
February 16, 2011 at 12:49 pm
Earlier this week, Prof. Emily Hudson—a specialist on Religion and Literature—introduced faculty and students in CC102 to the world of The Bhagavad Gita. For years we have heard about the “dilemma” that Arjuna faces as he stands with his charioteer Krishna between two armies who are preparing to destroy each other. Should he fight in […]
February 9, 2011 at 10:30 am
An allusion to Cervantes, noted by Core alumna Fabiana Cabral (CAS ’10). From the website of the XKCD webcomic, by artist Randall Munroe.
February 7, 2011 at 12:12 pm
Mr. Victrola Cola: I got this great window cleaner. Cleans good and doesn’t streak. Smells bad, though. Cleans good, but smells bad. Putney Swope: As a window cleaner, forget it. Put soybeans in it and market it as a soft drink in the ghetto. We’ll put a picture of a rhythm and blues singer on […]
February 7, 2011 at 11:45 am
Congratulations to Prof. Kyna Hamill, whose performance company Two Roads just received a Gold Star Award from the Massachusetts Cultural Council for their two-day, site-specific project Dance in the Fells, for being considered one of the best locally funded projects of the year. From the MCC website: The MCC’s Gold Star Awards, established in 2001, […]
February 3, 2011 at 1:15 pm
Anne Whiting (Core ’11, CAS 13) observes that the homework in CC202 involves, sometimes, trawling videos on YouTube. Behold: The Three Boys – The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflote) by Mozart A clip from Ingmar Bergman’s 1976 film version of Mozart’s opera. NB: This version will be screened next week, on Monday and Tuesday February 7th […]
January 31, 2011 at 3:53 pm
When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose opera The Magic Flute will be examined in Prof. Roye Wates’ lecture tomorrow afternoon for the students […]
December 15, 2010 at 5:10 pm
Current and former Core students in the midst of their semester-end exams and papers will be amused by this cartoon from Cabanon Press, featuring second-year author Cervantes. They have a whole series of these looks at the private composition habits, even including another Core author, Emily Dickinson.
