{"id":5574,"date":"2017-07-01T17:17:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T21:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=5574"},"modified":"2017-07-01T17:17:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T21:17:08","slug":"weekly-round-up-7-1-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2017\/07\/01\/weekly-round-up-7-1-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Round-Up, 7-1-17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hallo, Corelings! How are you faring this week? Today we look at friendliness, medieval multiverse theories, questionable experiments undertaken by Core authors, and more. Read on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Despite the current political climate, Prof. Carrie Tirado Bramen of the University of Buffalo studies on the characteristic friendliness of Americans, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/americans-have-always-been-nice-but-is-it-just-a-sham\/2017\/06\/30\/672d8568-5cf6-11e7-9fc6-c7ef4bc58d13_story.html\">a topic that both Alexis de Tocqueville and Walt Whitman commented on in their time<\/a>, in her book <em>American Niceness: A Cultural History<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>After four years of work, <a href=\"https:\/\/financialtribune.com\/articles\/art-and-culture\/67256\/faust-in-persian-took-4-years\">Goethe&#8217;s two-part play <em>Faust<\/em><\/a> has been translated into Persian, thanks to the efforts of Iranian translator Saeed Jowzi. It is a fitting pursuit: after all, the author originally took inspiration from 13th-century Persian poet Hafez of Shiraz.<\/li>\n<li>Did Aristotle hold back science in the medieval era? Was the Renaissance truly a rebirth of science or a continuation of a field already in motion since the supposed &#8220;dark ages&#8221;? Were multiverses and alien worlds compatible with the medieval worldview? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/medieval-multiverse-theory\">CLICK HERE FOR ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS&#8230; AND MORE<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"width: 488px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.atlasobscura.com\/article_images\/43274\/image.jpg\" width=\"478\" height=\"399\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>&#8220;A medieval missionary tells that he has found the point where heaven and Earth meet&#8230;&#8221;<\/em> The Flammarion engraving, depicting the edge of the universe, by an unknown artist for Camille Flammarion&#8217;s <em>L&#8217;atmosphre: mtorologie populaire<\/em> (1888).(<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Flammarion.jpg\">Public Domain<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Fun fact:<\/strong> William James experimented with nitrous oxide (laughing gas) in an attempt to induce &#8220;the mystical consciousness&#8221; or a state of transcendence in himself. It was through that experience that he determined that transcendence involves a far different state of consciousness than that of everyday life. Along those same lines, researchers are dabbling in the effects of drug-induced transcendent experiences <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/scienceofus\/article\/what-a-transcendent-experience-really-means.html\">like those on which James wrote<\/a> may bring peace to terminally ill patients.<\/li>\n<li>Did you know that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityoflondon.gov.uk\/things-to-do\/keats-house\/Pages\/default.aspx\">John Keats&#8217; villa in Hampstead, London,<\/a> is open to visitors? Today, it is a museum and literary center that holds frequent events, including poetry readings and more. Core field trip, anyone?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There you have it! May your Independence Day be filled with barbecue, loud noises, and other strange activities that somehow remind us of our country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hallo, Corelings! How are you faring this week? Today we look at friendliness, medieval multiverse theories, questionable experiments undertaken by Core authors, and more. Read on: Despite the current political climate, Prof. Carrie Tirado Bramen of the University of Buffalo studies on the characteristic friendliness of Americans, a topic that both Alexis de Tocqueville and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6257,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6590,2671],"tags":[48685],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5575,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5574\/revisions\/5575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}