• | Talking About the Movies with Frank Beaver: World War II in films | | This month, Professor Beaver recommends the top feature films and documentaries about WWII. Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (1998)and John Huston's The Battle of San Pietro (1944) top his lists for each genre. The still from Private Ryan shows part of the squadron in a town in Normandy.
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The
Case of Swimmer's Itch or: Parasites in Paradise |
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U-M researcher Lois Verbrugge, an avid swimmer, found
that where people swim and how often they swim determines the likelihood
that they'll be affected by the parasite that causes swimmer's itch.
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• | Georgia O'Keeffe exhibit July 11 - Sept 26 at U-M Museum of Art |
| An extraordinary UMMA exhibition will examine the iconic work of Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986). From her earliest works, O'Keeffe was a visionary whose images connected the worlds of the external and internal sublime. "View From My Studio" is a 1930 work. |
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• | Born to die young: man's fate |
| A U-M study
shows males are three times more likely than females to die at the
cusp of adulthood. "Being male is now the single largest demographic
risk factor for early mortality in developed countries," says
Daniel Kruger, lead author of a mortality study and a social psychologist
at the School of Public Health and the Institute for
Social Research.
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• | Listen to the beginning of 'Sevilla' by Roland Vazquez
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"'Sevilla' is a 'musical reimagining of Spanish Seville,
when Muslims, Christians and Jews collaborated to build a very high culture,"
says Roland Vazquez, a drummer, percussionist and composer who teaches
jazz composition at the School of Music. The piece is on his CD Further
Dance (1997).
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Listen
to poet Thylias Moss sing an excerpt from The Rapture of Dry Ice
Burning Off Skin as the Moment of the Soul's Apotheosis
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| Thylias Moss, the award-winning
poet and professor of English, sometimes sings her verse, accompanied
by son Ansted. The entire poem is published inside. |
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• | Ecologists tackle the problem of adjusting to an overcrowded planet |
| As our planet's population swells and increases demands on natural resources, ecological scientists should work with other experts to make sure our basic survival needs are met, according to U-M evolutionary biologist Mercedes Pascual and other researchers.
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