Francis Hopkinson C1757, anticipating Chomsky?
“Even the learned Languages are, in my Opinion, taught by a wrong Method ...”
Francis Hopkinson C1757 on Hot-Air Politicians
“A high-flying Politician is I think not unlike a Balloon ...”
Blogging Calculus! (or World Music, or Genome Science, or Mythology…)
It's time to go back to school — 21st-century style.
Wistar Insitute finds that the immune system can fight AIDS, if it’s given a boost
A team of researchers led by Penn’s Wistar Institute have shown in a clinical trial that HIV-infected patients can fight off the virus by themselves if their immune system is given a boost.
Penn’s quadrotors go to TED2012, start a band
The little quadrotor robots have been keeping busy lately.
Where (The Big) Health Savings Are
Penn's Ezekiel Emanuel in The New York Times.
(Lots) More Bones Beneath the Tracks
Good news and bad news from the Duffy’s Cut Project.
Where (Some) Health Care Savings Are
Penn's Ezekiel Emanuel in The New York Times.
Where the Health Care Savings Aren’t
Penn's Ezekiel Emanuel in The New York Times.
Penn Park Field Day
Slideshow
US Healthcare Spending = Entire economy of France
Penn's Ezekiel Emanuel in The New York Times.
Mark Winkelman Named Chair of Penn Medicine Board
What he does in his free time.
What to Wear to a SlutWalk?
Salamishah Tillet, an assistant professor of English and Africana Studies at Penn, poses some interesting questions about SlutWalk, in The Nation.
Imagine … a new Africa Gallery at the Penn Museum
The Africa gallery becomes the ancient artifact on display.
A New Way to Diagnose Concussions on the Sideline?
The average high-school football player gets hit on the helmet up to 1,400 times in a season.
On Paying College Athletes
Wharton's Ken Shropshire agrees with Taylor Branch.