Roger Steffens & The Family Acid

from The Huffington Post Roger Steffens: Reggae Encyclopedist and “Family Acid” Photographer by Eric Trules If you know anything about the world of reggae music, you know the name, Roger Steffens, the man who began the first radio broadcast of the...

Niantic Sails Solo

from Computerworld Google’s Niantic Labs to become independent company The developer of mobile game Ingress will go solo as it aims to reach bigger audiences By Zach Miners / IDG News Service Credit: Google Two days after announcing a sweeping reorganization,...

Dark Night Of The Perseids

from Pioneer Press Sky Watch: This year’s Perseid meteor shower should impress By Mike Lynch One of the best meteor showers of the year will light up the night sky this week. The Perseid meteor shower will peak Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, but the...

Amen, Adam Weinberg

from The Huffington Post 6 Tips for Getting the Most from a Liberal Arts College by Adam Weinberg  – President, Denison University In just a few weeks, thousands of students will go off to a residential liberal arts college, including two of my own children. So...

Oliver Sacks’ Heart-wrenching Goodbye

from The New York Times Oliver Sacks: My Periodic Table By OLIVER SACKS Aidan Koch I LOOK forward eagerly, almost greedily, to the weekly arrival of journals like Nature and Science, and turn at once to articles on the physical sciences — not, as perhaps I should, to...

Suicide By Shakespeare

from The Wall Street Journal The Suicide of the Liberal Arts Indoctrinating students isn’t the same as teaching them. Homer and Shakespeare have much to tell us about how to think and how to live. By John Agresto ‘Achilles Slays Hector,’ by Peter Paul Rubens, circa...