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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.

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.

What Makes Us Human? Podcast

Podcast examines love and obligation

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“Love and the Goddess” a new episode of the “What Makes Us Human” podcast series, explores marriage between girls and a goddess in South India.

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.

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.

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.

Active learning

Classics students create art installations on Hercules story

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

Artist's rendering of Kepler 10b
Astronomy

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

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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.

Comparative Literature

Book presents alternative cultural history of science fiction

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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.