by Kate Navarra Thibodeau | Dec 22, 2009 | The Public Humanist
I have not always been interested in biographies. As a curator and historian, I look at biographies as pieces of the puzzle: the more biographies I read on a certain topic, the more I understand about that topic. A biography can be a collection of stories: a story of...
by Madeleine L. Scammell | Dec 24, 2009 | The Public Humanist
"Our earth is like a patient with a fever. We must collaborate to save her by sharing our wisdom so as to provide economical and technological remedies to avoid +2 degrees damage.” – Recommendation from WWViews deliberations in Japan Participants...
by Beverly Prestwood-Taylor | Dec 31, 2009 | The Public Humanist
Larry Ragland, an unemployed health insurance executive from Methuen, MA., was mesmerized by the recent United Nations Climate Change talks in Copenhagen (COP-15), eager to see the nations work out a deal to address global warming. He confessed, “It was almost...
by Joanne Riley | Jan 7, 2010 | The Public Humanist
I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that many of the readers of "The Public Humanist" delight, as I do, in the process of drawing our own conclusions about the past based on primary source artifacts. There's something enchanting about...
by David Mednicoff | Jan 13, 2010 | The Public Humanist
I am in the Middle East for some research, and specifically in Qatar, where I lived a few years ago. With some time this morning because of a cancelled appointment, I walked over to the country’s major annual book fair. Despite taking place in a massive space...
