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NUMBER OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS ESTIMATED TO HAVE
DISAPPEARED FROM THE WILD SINCE 1970, ACCORDING TO A WIDELY CITED
2019 STUDY. THAT MEANS THE U.S. HAS 3 BILLION FEWER BIRDS
THAN IT DID 50 YEARS AGO.


Education

Bird by Bird

An environmental studies course on birding looks at what separates us from one another and from nature, and what might bring us together. Read More

HOW WE HANDLE MID-LIFE STRESS IS LINKED TO MATERNAL STRESS DURING PREGNANCY, PER A STUDY COAUTHORED BY BROWN'S STEPHEN BUKA.

THE COST TO LAY A MILE OF HIGHWAY INCREASED 5-FOLD BETWEEN 1990 AND 2008—FAR MORE THAN THE COST OF MATERIALS, BROWN ECONOMISTS DETERMINED.

A BROWN STUDY FOUND POLITICAL AFFILIATION, NOT HEALTH RISKS, DICTATED WHETHER AMERICANS WORE MASKS OR DISTANCED IN 2020.

SOUTH ASIAN MONSOON RAINS WILL ONLY GET MORE INTENSE AS LEVELS OF ATMOSPHERIC CO2 RISE, GEO SCIENCE PROFESSOR STEVEN CLEMENS PREDICTS.

VIKINGS BUILT A MASSIVE BOAT IN AN ICELANDIC CAVE TO WARD OFF THE APOCALYPSE, A TEAM FROM BROWN'S HAFFENREFFER MUSEUM CONCLUDES. 

Religion & Spirituality
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Divine Providence

A new home for the Catholic community
The Arts
LCMTC sculpture Brown University

Blueno’s Successor

Students have mixed feelings about the new sculpture on campus
Ever True
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Hot Summer Studies

Most first-years had second semester over the summer—sans A/C
First Person
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18th-Century Swordplay

Five minutes with Kris Cho ’22
Politics & Law

Aim High

Can a decentralized, encrypted national gun registry bridge the partisan divide?
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“We are in the third interglacial phase of the Quartenary Ice Age. Ice ages last 3 million years.  This one is 2.6 million years old. This is what is predicted:  Sometime before 2060...”
—JW Lane ’71 PhD
Tallahassee, Fla. 
 
In response to Follow the Money (M/J’16):
“I’m aware that Brown’s admissions selectiveness and quality of education has increased steadily over time, but I didn’t realize just how steep this upward curve was until I read the slew of...”
—Nathan Wyeth ’08
Oakland, Calif. 
In response to Follow the Money (M/J’16):
“I am happy for the mental evolution of Tim Murphy. He traveled to Lebanon “tired and ashamed of America.” He returned “seeing America…in a much-needed new light.” Perfection is elusive in the...”
—Frank Rycyk ’66
Jefferson City, Mo.
In response to The View From Tripoli (A–M’21):