By Krystyna Poray Goddu | Dec 18, 2020
Darcie Little Badger wrote her first book a 40-page mystery when she was in first grade, and even submitted it to a publisher, with help from her father, then a graduate student of English literature. Undeterred by the publisher’s rejection, she kept writing, producing a 400-page fantasy at the age of 12. She never doubted that she was a writer, so when she was rejected (twice) by Princeton University’s creative writing program, she decided to pursue a newly discovered interest in oceanography instead, ultimately earning a PhD in the subject. “I thought, okay, I’ll just do the writing on my own, then,” she recalls.
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(ThyBlackMan.com) There has been much written about the man we know as Nat Turner, and movies such as Birth of a Nation. Though Nat Turner is a name attached to rebellion and blood in history very little is known about the men. Some say he was a religious lunatic, and others say he was rebel focused on the cause of freedom. Regardless of the stance. [Read more.]
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ThyBlackMan.com) The Revolution of 1776 took place during the height of the Enlightenment, the era when Western Science was being formed. the leading
European thinkers at the time, all mathematicians, saw themselves as the Enlightened Ones, illuminated by newly found knowledge. They saw the precision and “rationality” of Mathematics as the one and only language of Science, the quest to unlock the secrets of the universe. “Illuminati” is Latin for “the Enlightened Ones.” Hence, it is the generic term for these Enlightenment thinkers, but there was also a specific group, a secret society, with this moniker.
Science’s quest is but the extension of each individual’s hunger to understand the enigma of existence. And there is another all-consuming riddle. Who is running things? What forces, and which individuals, are behind the stage upon which politics is played? Many of our young people today believe that in the daily torrent of imagery the media exposes them to, t
Meet the Man Who Is Propelling Pitt’s Health Sciences
Anantha Shekhar has big goals for the University of Pittsburgh’s schools of health sciences, from lessening racial inequity to improving its national rankings, and he’s not letting a pandemic slow him down.
December 17, 2020
When Anantha Shekhar accepted the job of senior vice chancellor for the health sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, he recognized the immensity of the challenge.
The 63-year-old neuroscientist from Indiana University had supervised research at that university’s medical school, the largest in the nation, but at Pitt, he not only would serve as medical school dean but would also oversee five other top-ranked health sciences schools: public health, nursing, dentistry, rehabilitation sciences and pharmacy.