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$1.9 m grant for LACSI

Late start today... but here we go. What do you call a North American institution of higher learning that does NOT have an institute dedicated to Latin American and Caribbean Studies? Well, in so many ways, such a institution would be irrelevant in today's world, because the need for cross-… Read Article

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Poe's Eureka

Happy Presidents Day. Scientific American has a great post about a little-known work by Edgar Allen Poe that presented a kind of preview of modern physics and cosmology:

According to Robinson, Eureka has always been “an object of ridicule,” too odd even for devotees of Poe… Read Article

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UGA Opera Theatre: Mascagni's L'amico Fritz

UGA Opera Theatre brings the rarely-performed opera in three acts L'amico Fritz to the Fine Arts Theatre Feb. 20 and 21 at 8 p.m. with a matinee performance Feb. 22 at 3 p.m.

"I have wanted to bring this particular opera to UGA ever since I arrived here," said Frederick Burchinal,… Read Article

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Climatology Research Lab looks into the future of storms

Statistical techniques like downscaling allow climate researchers to peer across extraordinarily large amounts of different kinds of data to give us a better idea of what to expect in terms of the broader changes in the climate and how those may translate into recurring weather events in the… Read Article

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Hood/Powers Q & A at the Chapel

Thursday the 12th at 4 pm, we're all going to the Chapel for a conversation between great friends of the blog Patterson Hood and Ann Powers:

Ann Powers of NPR and musician Patterson Hood will hold a public conversation on "Our Back Pages: The Music, Books and Movies That Fed Two Creative… Read Article