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Comparative Literature

Book presents alternative cultural history of science fiction

A&S Communications

Conventional wisdom about science fiction is that it has followed the same diffusionist patterns as the advancement of industrial capitalism. Anindita Banerjee challenges that notion in her new anthology.

Artist's rendering of Kepler 10b
Astronomy

Planet hunter to give update on search for life in the universe

A&S Communications

Natalie Batalha, astrophysicist and planet hunter, will describe Kepler’s legacy and preview planned follow-up missions in the 2018 Carl Sagan Distinguished Lecture at Cornell, Dec. 5 at 7 p.m. in Call Auditorium.

Active learning

Classics students create art installations on Hercules story

A&S Communications

Student displays illustrated Hercules' fabled choice between pleasure and virtue.

Jewish Studies Program

Cornell’s Jewish Studies Program presents 'Monish' in NYC

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Cornell's Jewish Studies Program, the Center for Jewish History and the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research present "Monish: A Musical Tale of Talmud and Temptation," set to rhyming English verse.

Philosophy

Philosophical Review voted best by wide margin

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In an on-line poll of more than 600 philosophers, the Sage School’s Philosophical Review has been voted the best general journal of philosophy by a wide margin -- 371-165 over its nearest rival.

What Makes Us Human? Podcast

Love and the Goddess

This is an episode from the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast's third season, "What Do We Know about Love?" from Cornell University’s College of Arts & Sciences, showcasing the newest thinking from across the disciplines about the relationship between humans and love. Featuring audio essays written and recorded by Cornell faculty, the series releases a new episode each Tuesday through the fall semester.

Performing & Media Arts

Mini Locally Grown Dance concert at the Schwartz Center

The Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA) presents its annual Mini Locally Grown Dance concert Nov. 29-Dec. 1 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.PMA senior lecturers Jumay Chu and Byron Suber direct and each contributes original choreography. The concert also features a combined piece choreographed by 16 students in Chu and Suber’s dance composition course; a duet from Deanna Myskiw ’18; and a piece choreographed by visiting lecturer Nic Ceynowa.

Astronomy

Odd bodies, rapid spins keep cosmic rings close

Cornell Chronicle

Forget those shepherding moons. Gravity and the odd shapes of asteroid Chariklo and dwarf planet Haumea – small objects deep in our solar system – can be credited for forming and maintaining their own rings, according new research in Nature Astronomy.

Creative Works

Play by Cornell faculty performed in London

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The performance was part of the National Theatre’s “Courage Everywhere” project, which features world-class directors producing plays on the themes of suffrage, courage and the fight for political equality in the UK and around the world.

Classics/History

New podcast offers leadership lessons from ancient history

A new podcast, Antiquitas: Leaders and Legends of the Ancient World, combines story-telling and scholarship to bring to life the ancient world’s most engaging personalities, real and mythical. The first season, “Gods of War,” contains eight episodes chronicling war stories of ancient Greece and Rome, from Achilles and Helen to Julius Caesar.

Social Sciences

With Cornell grants, faculty launch social sciences research

Cornell Chronicle

How will the rise in sea levels due to climate change affect the fiscal health of U.S. cities? Can virtual reality help architects “try out” a building’s design before construction has even started? How do social processes affect artificial intelligence in high-stakes areas such as sentencing for criminals and job applications? These are a few of the questions Cornell’s social science faculty are exploring this fall, thanks to funding from the Institute for the Social Sciences (ISS). The ISS’s Fall 2018 Small Grant Awards are designed to support faculty as they develop new research and seek external funding.

What Makes Us Human? Podcast

New podcast examines courtly love

This episode of the “What Makes Us Human” podcast series explains how the invention of courtly love helped prevent warfare in medieval Europe.

Research

Physics, fundamental to neurobiology

Because Itai Cohen’s lab studies matter in motion—colloidal particles, fly neurons, movement of individuals at a concert—Darshna Anigol was thrilled.

Astronomy

Google celebrates Arecibo message to extraterrestrials

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Image: This is the Arecibo message with color added to highlight its separate parts. The actual binary transmission carried no color information. Credit: Arne NordmannToday’s Google doodle celebrates the 44th anniversary of humankind’s first intentional radio message to extraterrestrials, via the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, which was then managed by Cornell.

Milstein Program

Johnson details computational art history techniques

Cornell Chronicle

Professor C. Richard Johnson discussed the techniques he innovated using X-rays and algorithms to analyze works of art in his Nov. 9 talk at the A.D. White House, “Studying Vermeer’s Canvases and Rembrandt’s Papers: Two Examples of Computational Art History.”