Watch, Read, Listen

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