Watch, Read, Listen

Big yellow buses will start rolling through The Huntington's gates this week as the school tour season gets under way. When students disembark for a morning of discovery, a group of highly trained volunteers will be ready and waiting.

"She is a joy. I look at her and light goes all through me." Quick quiz. Who wrote it? William Carlos Williams? Wallace Stevens? Alice Walker? None of the above? That's right, none of the above. 

Several hundred visitors had a chance to exhibit their artwork at The Huntington on Saturday, Oct. 2. This wasn't your ordinary art show, however. For one thing, the media these artists were working with included leaves, twigs, seed pods, palm fronds, pinecones, bark, fruit, and flowers.

Earlier this summer I wrote about Volterra's Egg, a hollowed-out chicken egg that Italian mathematician Vito Volterra had marked up with curves and equations. It's among the items in The Huntington's history of science collection.

While reviewing items from The Huntington's history of science collection for a project I'm working on, a box labeled "Volterra's Egg" caught my eye. Vito Volterra (1860–1940) was an Italian mathematician who made large advancements in both applied and pure mathematics

One of the last times Linda Colley gave a public lecture in Southern California, it changed the course of her research. The professor of history from Princeton will help kick off the new lecture season at The Huntington