18 Jan 2018
Posted by Michelle Bryant 
“Even a strutting exhibitionist has something to hide: certain diary entries, genetic predispositions, financial mistakes, medical crises, teenage embarrassments, antisocial compulsions, sexual fantasies, radical dreams,” writes Randolph Lewis. “We all have something that we want to shield from...
Read more → 18 Jan 2018
Posted by Victoria Davis 
...And all the while, I kept thinking about that great old Whitman poem... ‘When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer.’ I...I don’t know it. Anyway... Well, can you recite it? Pathetically enough, I could. With some encouragement from Walt, Gale continues: When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When...
Read more → 18 Jan 2018
Posted by David Ochsner 
When it comes to staging a revolution, timing is everything. In 1959 an island nation of 7 million revolted against its U.S.-backed dictator, and with its subsequent export of revolution to Latin America became a major driver of U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War. In a story as compelling as it is complex,...
Read more → 17 Jan 2018
Posted by Emily Nielsen 
It began with a daring escape from Siberia that involved walking more than 600 miles. After five years of exile, a Russian revolutionary named David Rapoport found refuge in Belgium, and in 1913 he immigrated to a new life in San Antonio. It was from this man, his father, that Bernard “B” Rapoport...
Read more → 21 Dec 2017
Posted by Rachel Griess 
Terry Orr jokes that pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in classical archeology in his late 70’s was all a ploy to avoid retirement. “A lot of people retire because they are tired of driving to the same office and dealing with the same people; but when you work for yourself, it’s different. You aren’t...
Read more → 26 Oct 2017
Posted by Rachel Griess 
On Halloween night, 13-year-old Rik Gern grabbed his wooden cane before setting off to trick-or-treat around the neighborhood as Charlie Chaplin. Delighted at the sight of a child festooned in a black bowler and matching mustache, families welcomed him inside to show off his foolproof impression to granny. “Look,...
Read more → 19 Oct 2017
Posted by Rachel Griess 
Following the recent hurricanes and earthquake, LILLAS Benson joined the University of Texas Libraries and people around the world in using the OpenStreetMap platform to donate their time to hurricane relief efforts through open-source mapping. https://youtu.be/mVDA5Uz28aQ Videography and photography...
Read more → 01 Sep 2017
Posted by Rachel Griess 
Filling a 100-square-foot space with the essentials you’ll need to be successful for the next academic year is no small task, especially when you add it to the endless shopping list of books and school supplies. This year, families of college students expect to spend an average of $969.88 on back-to-school...
Read more → 21 Jul 2017
Posted by Rachel Griess 
Shark Week brings all sorts of shocking—and horrifying — spectacles to viewers. This year, audiences were promised the first-ever man versus shark swim off, where 23-time gold medalist Michael Phelps will face off against “one of the fastest and most efficient predators on the planet,” a great...
Read more → 02 May 2017
Posted by Rachel Griess 
I’ll have to admit that I was a bit perplexed when I heard linguistic anthropologist Elizabeth Keating say, “There is a very strong preference for agreement in conversation in the U.S.” I couldn’t believe my ears — even the Pew Research Center pegged political polarization as the defining...
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