Engineering: Archimedes of Syracuse In the 3rd century BCE, the Sicilian polymath Archimedes significantly advanced human understanding of mathematics, geometry and astronomy.
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas: Anatomy of a Christmas Classic This lecture investigates how and why the song ‘Have Yourself...
Women of the Harlem Renaissance In the early twentieth century Black creatives were America’s artistic...
Victorian Era Astronomy: On Land and in the Skies In the late 19th-century, astronomical research could be practical, using...
The Shape of Gravity: Why On Earth Are Planets Spherical? We often take for granted that planets, shaped by the...