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So, hard facts. Nineteen nations have set new all-time temperature records this summer. Federal scientists have just announced that we’ve come through the warmest six months, twelve months, and decade on record. A powerful new study published in “Nature” shows that global warming has cut phytoplankton populations by half in…
Read More »The Kennedy Library Foundation is anticipating the 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s inauguration as the 35th president of the United States on January 20, 2011. In the recent newsletter from the Foundation, here’s how Foundation CEO David McKean summed up JFK’s legacy: During the thousand days of his presidency, ……
Read More »Sunday, Nov. 7, 2 pm, Lowell National Hist. Park Visitor Center, 246 Market St. “The Girl in the Italian Bakery” features Lawrence native Kenneth Tingle, author of a hard-knocks memoir about growing up in our neighbor mill city. It’s a story about not losing hope. Check out the book here.…
Read More »“In a nutshell, the universe is 13.7 billion years old, plus or minus one percent; a recent previous estimate had a margin of error of three times as much. By weight it is four percent atoms, 23 percent dark matter—presumably undiscovered elementary particles left over from the Big Bang—and 73…
Read More »The UMass Lowell website this week includes a link to a Boston Herald review of the recent sold-out concert by hip hop star Drake at the revamped Tsongas Center. Read the review by Lauren Carter here, and get the Herald if you like the reporting.
Read More »Legendary San Francisco poet and founder of City Lights Bookstore and publishing company Lawrence Ferlinghetti is a baseball fan, too. The card-carrying Beat writer and publisher of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” and several books by Jack Kerouac, including “Book of Dreams” and “Pomes All Sizes,” has a most fitting poem for this…
Read More »Today’s NYTimes includes this article about the Harlem-based Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the NY Public Library acquiring a massive archive of papers from author and performer Maya Angelou. The story prompted me to recall Maya Angelou’s visit to Lowell in 1989 as a guest of Middlesex Community College. Following is…
Read More »Renowned author and illustrator David Macaulay may be a distinguished winner of a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” Fellowship and the Caldecott Medal for children’s literature, but today he came across more like an inspiring junior high-school teacher (he did that for one year) rather than some artist-god who came down…
Read More »In the wake of the controversial firing of senior analyst Juan Williams, are you looking for some information about NPR – its origins and funding? Calls and threats are being made from some quarters to have the Congress “de-fund” public radio and televison. NPR – National Public Radio – was created…
Read More »“Creating Books for Young Readers,” a talk by widely known children’s book illustrator and author David Macaulay. Monday, Oct. 25, 1 pm to 3 pm, in O’Leary Library auditorium, Room 222, 61 Wilder Street, UMass Lowell South Campus. Visitor parking is available in the visitor lot on Wilder Street, but visitors…
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