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MOSES LAKE – Big Bend Community College Chemistry Instructor Lindsay Groce recently returned from her sabbatical in Europe. Drawing on experiences from her travels, she plans to create a new course to be offered at Big Bend in the spring of 2024...
Those who write off the medieval period as an unchanging backwater are overlooking the seismic advances that redefined what it meant to be human.
A brisk and engaging book about medieval science, which should dispel any lingering thought that "medieval science" is an oxymoron.
Show more Mars is the focus of current space exploration but how far back does this interest go? Dr Joshua Nall tells Seb Falk about the Mars globe held at the Whipple Science Museum in Cambridge. Hannah Smithson explains her research into the way we see colour and explains the different perceptions of that blue/black/gold/white dress. Timothy Peacock has been studying the fears about Skylab falling to earth, looking at government files and the media reporting of the 1979 re-entry and distintegration of the first United States space station. Dr Joshua Nall is a BBC/AHRC New Ge...
, by Laura Tunbridge (Yale). Focussing on nine pivotal works, this study, equal parts musicological and biographical, complicates the simplistic portrait of Beethoven as an isolated, single-minded genius. Although he seemed inclined to rebellion and irreverence, he still relied upon a close circle of friends and patronsâespecially as he began to lose his hearingâand saw his fortunes as bound up with theirs. His music also testifies to his political awareness. Tunbridge writes that âFidelio,â his only opera, âroots him as a man of his time rather than allowing him to f...