Liberal Arts Blog — Friday is the Joy of Art, Architecture, Design, Film, and All Things Visual Day Today’s Topic: The Biggest Painting in the Louvre is Paolo Veronese’s “The Wedding Feast at Cana” Christ’s first miracle was the transformation of water into wine on order from his mother, Mary…

Liberal Arts Blog — Thursday is the Joy of Music Day Today’s Topic: Adele, “I Set Fire to the Rain,” Jimi Hendrix “Purple Haze,” James Taylor/Carole King, “Winter, Spring, Summer, or Fall” What lines or titles haunt you most? This morning at about 4am, I woke up with “I set…

Thinking Citizen Blog — Thursday is Health, Health Care, and Global Health Policy Day Today’s Topic: Abortion Landscape — A Balkanized Legal System States where abortion is banned with no exceptions for rape or incest include: Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, South Dakota. States where abortion is legal with no gestational…

Thinking Citizen Blog — Wednesday is Climate Change, the Environment, and Sustainability Day Today’s Topic: The Caspian Sea — Geology (the Three Seas), Biology (Beluga Sturgeon), History (Baku) The Caspian, the world’s largest inland body of water, is “a remnant of the ancient Paratethys Sea.” It stretches 750 miles from…

Liberal Arts Blog — Wednesday is the Joy of Science, Engineering, and Technology Day Today’s Topic — Leafy Vegetables — Good News, Bad News, Tips from “Consumer Reports” Last time legumes. Today, leafy vegetables. Healthy, but not risk free. Has anyone done the risk/reward math? Is the risk of listeria…

Thinking Citizen Blog — Monday is Foreign Policy Day Today’s Topic: Brazil — Belem, Fortaleza, Recife, Salvador, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba, Florianopolis, Porto Alegre, Joinville This week I decided to learn a little more about Brazil. So I headed for the nearest globe and decided to go along the Atlantic coast…

Liberal Arts Blog — Monday is the Joy of Math, Statistics, Shapes, and Numbers Day Today’s Topic: The Math of Economics That Everyone Should Know Can you draw a supply-demand curve? If you think you can, test yourself by taking out a blank sheet of paper and drawing it. Then…

Thinking Citizen Blog — Sunday is Political Process, Campaign Strategy, and Candidate Selection Day Today’s Topic: Is Joe Biden too old? Is It a Fair Question? What is the Best Metric? “Playing the age card against an elderly opponent is a familiar maneuver in American politics,” wrote Jeff Jacoby of…

Liberal Arts Blog — Sunday is the Joy of Humor, Food, Travel, Practical Life Tips, and Miscellaneous Day Today’s Topic: The Math of the Perfect Meal — Number of Courses, Items per Plate, Proportionality All I remember from statistics: “Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.” What items of culinary mathematics…