If sitting meditation makes you restless, how about moving meditation? “Modern neuroscience fully supports the basic premise of meditative movement,” says Peter Payne, a researcher at the Geisel School of Medicine.
On VPR’s Vermont Edition, Thayer’s Geoffrey Parker discusses what the FCC’s decision to end net neutrality may mean for the “democratization of innovation” on the internet.
“For the third consecutive year, through the Turing Tests in Creative Arts, researchers at Dartmouth’s Neukom Institute are soliciting submissions of Shakespearean or Petrarchan sonnets drafted using artificial intelligence,” says the website.
Dartmouth is among 32 institutions that are “loan-free” to help students stay out of debt. “The policies essentially mean that qualifying students aren’t expected to borrow,” the magazine reports.
Laura Braunstein is “one of those people who can take your one pretty good idea and turn it into three great ideas,” says Erik Agard, co-creator of Sunday’s crossword puzzle with Braunstein, a librarian at the College. It was her debut puzzle.
The magazine ranks Professor Douglas Irwin’s new book, Clashing over Commerce, among the best books of 2017, writing that Irwin “sets the record straight, and in the process elegantly debunks a host of trade-policy myths.”
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand ’88 (D-N.Y.) yesterday called for the resignation of her colleague Sen. Al Franken (D-Minnesota), who has been accused of sexual misconduct. “Enough is enough,” she wrote on Facebook, the newspaper reports.
As a first-generation college graduate, Alexandra Bernadotte ’92 wanted to help others like her, so in 2009, she founded Beyond 12, which helps first-generation, low-income, and minority students stay in college and graduate.
“Out in the Valley! Queer Happy Hour and Mixer” is co-hosted by Spectra, Dartmouth’s LGBTQIA+ alliance, to provide “a safe place for people of all ages to meet new friends, socialize, and listen to live music in a welcoming environment.”
With the increasing popularity of electronic-payment methods, the Fed is considering whether to create its own digital currency. “It’s urgent for the Federal Reserve to move forward” on this, Professor Andrew Levin tells the newspaper.
In a story about the proposed tax cuts, Professor Andrew Levin says even moderate pickup in wage growth could “give the Fed breathing room to make a few more modest hikes next year, but keep rates relatively low compared to historical norms.”
Native Americans are rarely consulted during invasive species work on tribal lands, says Dartmouth’s Nicholas Reo, who collaborated on researching the experiences of tribal land managers.
NPR profiles Selassie Atadika ’98, a Ghanaian chocolatier who had a career with the U.N. until 2014, when she moved back to Ghana and started her own company, Midunu Chocolates. It is “telling the African story through chocolate,” she says.
“To me what it means to be successful in the trades is to do good, lasting work that people will use and enjoy and find beauty in. That’s what it means to be successful,” says Jane DeWitt ’99 in a video about her career as a stonemason.
Calling the book a “grand narrative,” a reviewer writes that Professor Douglas Irwin’s Clashing Over Commerce “tells the history of American trade policy, showing that trade is neither dull nor deserving of the attacks on it.”
In NHPR’s “Civics 101,” Maurice Crandall, an assistant professor of Native American Studies and a citizen of the Yavapai-Apache Nation of Camp Verde, discusses the relationship between Native American reservations and the U.S. government.
In an opinion piece, Professor Randall Balmer says the image that U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore tries to project is “false, even fraudulent. The voters of Alabama have the opportunity to unmask him as the imposter he is.”
“Dartmouth has become the first college to partner with a program that connects volunteer travelers with a nationwide network of K-12 schools,” reports the magazine. The program, Reach the World, was created by Heather Halstead ’97.
Dartmouth’s Ruth Craig writes about uncovering the story of a young soldier lost to the flu pandemic during World War I, leading her to speculate about why the immune systems of young adults in 1918 did not protect them from the virus.
In an opinion piece, Dartmouth’s H. Gilbert Welch writes that applying the new guidelines on blood pressure would mean that “nearly half of all adults in the United States are now considered to have high blood pressure.”