I’m sitting outside at a coffeehouse on a side street in Chicago, part of my morning routine. It’s a scorcher…
Circles, Lines, and Squiggles: Tail-Devourer
Dear reader, if you come across two words that appear to need a space between them, it is a function…
Circles, Lines, and Squiggles: As Above, So Below
As we approach the interpretation of a birth chart we should never lose sight of the fact that the chart…
Circles, Lines, and Squiggles: A Picture of the Heavens
For the people of the ancient world things we define today as belief and superstition were inseparable from their everyday…
From Lectern to Laboratory: Charles Eliot and Frank Storer
Charles William Eliot was born into a family “with ancient, extensive, and important connections” both to the elite families of…
From Lectern to Laboratory: The Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862
Ever since he was elected to represent Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1854, Justin Morrill, the son…
From Lectern to Laboratory: Joseph Lovering, Bridge to the Future
In Science and the Ante-Bellum American College, Stanley Guralnick reminds us that it is impossible to discuss physics in…
From Lectern to Laboratory: Harvard’s Lawrence Hall
Located on the north side of Kirkland Street, named, like many Cambridge streets, after a prominent citizen (in this case,…
From Lectern to Laboratory: Reforms, Revolts, and a New President at Harvard
Josiah Quincy thrived in the public eye. For most of his adult life, the square-jawed, stocky Quincy was an uncompromising…
From Lectern to Laboratory: The Great Harvard Hall Fire of 1674
In 1630, the Massachusetts Bay Colony founded a small town eight miles north of Boston and named it Newtowne. It…
