Romy Carpenter waded at low tide across the mudflat to the water’s edge. Up to her shins in the black muck, she scraped a thin layer of mud into a sieve.Carpenter, a rising junior from Belfast, Maine, was on the hunt for foraminifera — single-celled...
World-renowned chef René Redzepi leaned over a 17th-century volume in Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library and studied a recipe for pickling an “old, fat goose.”
Redzepi snapped a couple of photos of the page with his smartphone. Around the room, other...
Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science, grew up in South Africa during the apartheid era. He recalls that people there could easily list the regime’s injustices, but often struggled to describe a just alternative.This observation — people...