The golden elixir of modern agriculture began with a wizened alchemist, alone in a room boiling his own urine, in search of a substance that would turn base metals into gold. One day, he f… Read More

HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Chynna Keys / Getty Lupe Fiasco is continuing his journey in higher academia. He announced that he will be taking part in a fellowshi… Read More

Yale University honored the 9-year-old girl who had the police called on her by a White man last October with a special ceremony. Bobbi Wilson was given accolades by the Yale Peabody Museum… Read More

Seven Yale faculty members have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. It is Yale’… Read More

New England, the northeasternmost region of the United States, brims with history, culture, and natural beauty. Though outsiders often regard New England as a single, homogenous region, each… Read More

It’s dino demolition over at Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. To keep things interesting during the construction they decided to paint the machine and add big old googly eyes… Read More

Connecticut is a beautiful place, and it’s no wonder it’s popular among tourists and residents alike. Whether you’re looking for beaches, mountains, or shops, there’s… Read More

Fall is here, another autumn season of red eyes, runny noses and misery. Fall allergies are a nuisance and keep you from sleeping, eating or working to your fullest. Trips to the doctor, med… Read More

I have been meaning to post on the most eminent of Salem’s antiquarians, Henry FitzGilbert Waters (1833-1913) for a while, but I kept finding more information about him and thought I&r… Read More

Obviously I am shamelessly exploiting both popular culture and alliteration with my title, but nevertheless James Henry Emerton (1847-1931), one of Salem’s most successful commercial a… Read More

From 50,000 years to 6,000 years ago, many of the world's largest animals, including such iconic grassland grazers as the woolly mammoth, giant bison, and ancient horses, went extinct. The l… Read More

Visual ArtsBellingham, WA has a couple interesting shows on tap. The Whatcom Museum opens a couple exhibits related to portraits. At their Lightcatcher Building, the group show “Up Clo… Read More

My head is spinning!  We learned so much today...lectures on gravity, the Sun, meteorites and meteors! Okay, one topic at a time:  Sunspots.This is the sunspotter tool that we used… Read More

Milford is a city filled with wonders of nature located within coastal Connecticut and New Haven County, United States. The city has the longest coastline in Connecticut and is by the Housat… Read More

In 2017, while browsing the fossil collections of Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History, University of Texas at Austin graduate student Simon Scarpetta came across a small lizard skull, j… Read More

The very last time I was up at the Peabody Essex Museum’s Phillips Library in Rowley, last February I believe, I requested a folder within which was the transcript of a short paper giv… Read More

Women's Day is over, but our appreciation for women doesn't end. There are so many women that deserve recognition, that have done so much for our world to be a better place. That's why Time… Read More

I remain obsessed with colonial taverns, an obsession that stems from 1) the fact that Salem has several establishments called “taverns” which are not really taverns; 2) the loss… Read More

May 25, 2017 Edward P. Bass ’67 has made a major contribution toward a state-of-the-art, 500-seat lecture hall that will be a premier part of the new Yale Science Building, now un… Read More

“What is so great about plans? I’ve never had a plan. Did I plan to lose my parents? No. Did I plan to find Marlin? No. Did you and I plan to meet?  Wait …… Read More

May 16-23, 1916 During the middle of May, 1916 Kate Roosevelt’s younger sister, Caroline Shippen, had minor surgery. She didn’t go into details about the operation, but Caroline… Read More