Professor Bestock in her element. Image Credit: Brown University archives. Join Laurel Bestock, professor of Egyptology, Archaelogy, and Art History at Brown University at the Bowers Museum this Saturday, June 13 (1:30 -3:30pm). Professor Bestock not only teaches at Brown, but it’s also her alma mater. Drawing on newly examined excavation records, Professor Bestock reveals new evidence challenging long-held assumptions about the origins of Egyptian kingship. She will take us on a fascinating...

Stanford Constitutional Law Fellow, Duncan Hosie, recently published a NYT essay titled “ The Courts Cannot Save Us from Trump .” It deals with the danger of overreliance on the U.S. judiciary to counter a determinedly assertive and autocratic executive branch of government, particularly when neither the judiciary nor the legislative branches are inclined to assert themselves in opposition. Hosie diagnoses our tendencies to track court rulings as a misplaced need to find structure in this...

Last month, Brown physics professor and President of the American Physical Society, Brad Marston, delivered a public lecture titled “Waves are Everywhere: How Oscillations Shape Technology, Earth, and the Universe.” He was introduced by 2017 Nobel Laureate Barry Barish at the University of California Riverside Center for Experimental Cosmology and Instrumentation. I was curious how such a mathematically sophisticated topic could translate to a general audience — including me. My dual...