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Mar/Apr 2010

This is My Book.

Psychology of the bookplate “This book belongs to me.” For over five centuries, that has been the message conveyed by every bookplate...

Mar/Apr 2010

Object lesson

In 1895, O. C. Marsh of Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History acquired a rare fossil reptile found in New Haven. This is the story of how...

Mar/Apr 2010

The Wunderkind

“Yes, astonishing, isn’t it? And at his age.”—Georg Balthasar Schott, an organist in Bach at Leipzig, on the talent of the...

May/Jun 2010

PG or not PG?

Titanic had almost everything: bare breasts, a steamy backseat sex scene, fistfights, curse words, gunshots, and of course, drowning—lots of...

May/Jun 2010

Over the Rainbow

Not long ago, an elderly neighbor strolled by as I was cutting away the English ivy strangling a Douglas fir in my front yard near Seattle....

Jul/Aug 2010

You can quote them

Readers of this column know that I have been studying the “Serenity Prayer”—the most famous and beloved of all modern...

Sep/Oct 2010

Campus clips

A graduate student in cell biology died on June 20 in what Graduate School dean Jon Butler described as an apparent suicide. Sang-Ohk Shim, a...

Nov/Dec 2010

Yalies in the far north

For nine days in March 1931, the New York Times followed a story it had broken on the front page with the headline "Explorer Feared...

Nov/Dec 2010

Garry Trudeau, artist

I have been reading Doonesbury for most of my life. At the age of 12, my understanding of the immediate post-Watergate era was...

Jan/Feb 2011

More news of Yale people

Remembered John B. Fenn '40PhD, a former Yale professor who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 2002, died in Richmond, Virginia, on December...

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