Rachel Gold: Speak to all pasts, and they shall teach thee
On Earth Day this year, my friends and I stood on the Main Green for a few hours and asked passersby to guess the age of our planet.
Articles by Rachel Gold (25)
Gold ’19: Earth’s history shows we need a Green New Deal
When we think about climate change, we should think about the Younger Dryas. You probably haven’t heard of the Younger Dryas, a cold period that started 12,900 years ago — at the end of the last glacial period — with a 10˚C cooling over two centuries, and ended 1,200 years […]
Students divided over location of proposed performing arts center
The undergraduate student body is split on whether the center should be built in its proposed location along the Walk between main campus and Pembroke.
Brain science at forefront of Brown scholarship priorities
One could say the brain is an interdisciplinary organ.
Timor-Leste founders talk nation-building
The leaders of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste arrived in Providence to reflect on the transition from a political movement to a sovereign nation.
Watson reports put price tag on post-9/11 wars
The money flows out — from public and private coffers to military contractors, overseas partners and veteran hospitals.
Maya codex deemed oldest text in Americas
The Grolier Codex, a Maya astrological manuscript, can now be considered the oldest known book produced in the Americas.
Named next dean of admission, Powell to draw on experience as student, administrator
As the Class of 2016 walked out of the Van Wickle Gates last weekend, Brown was preparing for the classes of 2021 and beyond to walk through them.
At Brown’s data center, technology changes but people don’t
The Internet as a cloud is an especially satisfying metaphor: It captures the incomprehensible mass of the globe’s data in one fell, simple, ethereal swoop.
SETI Institute chair discusses potential for extraterrestrial life
Somewhere out there — buried under ice in our solar system, waiting on a deep-Milky Way exoplanet — lies the answer to the question, “Are we alone?”
Gold ’19: Earth’s history shows we need a Green New Deal
When we think about climate change, we should think about the Younger Dryas. You probably haven’t heard of the Younger Dryas, a cold period that started 12,900 years ago — at the end of the last glacial period — with a 10˚C cooling over two centuries, and ended 1,200 years […]
Students divided over location of proposed performing arts center
The undergraduate student body is split on whether the center should be built in its proposed location along the Walk between main campus and Pembroke.
Brain science at forefront of Brown scholarship priorities
One could say the brain is an interdisciplinary organ.
Timor-Leste founders talk nation-building
The leaders of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste arrived in Providence to reflect on the transition from a political movement to a sovereign nation.
Watson reports put price tag on post-9/11 wars
The money flows out — from public and private coffers to military contractors, overseas partners and veteran hospitals.
Maya codex deemed oldest text in Americas
The Grolier Codex, a Maya astrological manuscript, can now be considered the oldest known book produced in the Americas.
Named next dean of admission, Powell to draw on experience as student, administrator
As the Class of 2016 walked out of the Van Wickle Gates last weekend, Brown was preparing for the classes of 2021 and beyond to walk through them.
At Brown’s data center, technology changes but people don’t
The Internet as a cloud is an especially satisfying metaphor: It captures the incomprehensible mass of the globe’s data in one fell, simple, ethereal swoop.
SETI Institute chair discusses potential for extraterrestrial life
Somewhere out there — buried under ice in our solar system, waiting on a deep-Milky Way exoplanet — lies the answer to the question, “Are we alone?”
