On the radio program, Emily Wilson, College for Women Class of 1963 Term Professor in the Humanities, discusses her path and her passions, plus translating The Iliad and The Odyssey, and more.

New revelations around the nature of dark energy are causing upheaval for scientists, who now wonder whether the force is weakening. “It’s moving from a really surprising finding to almost a moment where we have to throw out how we’ve thought about cosmology and start over,” says Bhuvnesh Jain, Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Natural Sciences.

Kathleen Brown, David Boies Professor of History, offers that right-wing style approximates “corporate-feminine” and echoes a long history around identity and expression. “The clothes are not the cause of these transformations,” she says, “but they are the costumes and the props that support and reveal it.”

A slight increase in U.S. births shouldn’t be taken “as an indication of a reversal of the trend toward lower or declining U.S. fertility,” according to Hans-Peter Kohler, Frederick J. Warren Professor of Demography. Kohler says that more analysis is needed to get a better sense of the changes.