by Daniela Capello (ComSciCon-GTA 2020)

It’s that time of year...

CHS Director and Harvard Professor, Gregory Nagy, also an elected foreign member of the Academy of Athens since 2010, is the invited speaker at the virtual seminar that will take place on January 20, 2021, 5–7pm, where he will deliver a presentation entitled "When self-praise connects the speaker to the universe: A diachronic view of the word εὔχομαι in its Homeric contexts".

The...

Deaths from COVID-19:

"The year 2020 ends with COVID-19 massively surging, as it was in the spring, to be the leading cause of death. The accelerating numbers of deaths fall far short of fully capturing each devastating human story: every death represents untold loss for countless families. Ending this crisis will require not only further advances in treatment but also unprecedented commitment to all aspects of prevention, vaccination, and public health. Only by doing so can future years see this illness revert back to the unfamiliar and unknown condition it once was."

Researchers identify a new level of complexity in how the brain responds to stimuli