The Power of the Word

The following post was written by Dee Gardner, a Faculty Fellow at the Humanities Center.  One of our remarkable human endowments is the ability to learn and store words and their meanings. This is a process that continues throughout our lifetimes, and there appears to be no limit to how many words we can learn. …

A Whole New Way of Seeing the Sky

The following post was written by Ed Cutler, a Faculty Fellow for the Center. Rocking the world of physics earlier this week, a team of scientists confirmed that they have directly observed gravitational waves, the so-called ripples in the very fabric of spacetime Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity had predicted a hundred years ago. Because …