Spring/Summer 2016
Spring/Summer 2016
Featuring stories on pioneering primate research, a political technology firm started on Penn's campus, one professor's journey from film scholar to filmmaker, preserving indigenous languages, how our brains know where we are, and why we care about Shakespeare.
Features
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A mother’s distress at the sound of her young being threatened—what could be more natural?
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Their story reads like a film treatment: Three college students—all politics junkies—meet through their involvement in campus politics and hit it off.
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Animals use specialized neurons in their brain known as grid cells to keep track of their physical location.
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Peter Decherney recalls the moment when he truly understood the power of media.
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When was the last time you read some Shakespeare on the train, or even saw one of his plays performed?
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To get to the tiny Mexican village of Santa Maria del Mar in Oaxaca—population 800 or 1,500, depending on whom you ask—requires a 45-minute boat ride through always-choppy waters huddled under a tarp in near darkness with two dozen companions.
