Before the invention of printing technology by Johannes Gutenberg in the mid-15th century, manuscripts survived much like gossip in a game of telephone -- depending on scribes to faithfully reproduce the works, but changing ever so slightly each time they were recopied.
Comedian and talk show host Jon Stewart has added a second show at Cornell University on Friday, March 4. Stewart, host of TV's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" on Comedy Central, will be performing at 8 and 10 p.m.
Nature Explorers, an after-school club for students in the Northeast Elementary School's Kids Count program, begins the spring semester's sessions Feb. 18 at 3:50 p.m.
Maurie Semel, Cornell University professor emeritus of entomology, whose research work bolstered the Long Island, N.Y. potato and vegetable industries, died Feb. 10, 2005, in Bucyrus, Ohio. He was 82.
The National Science Foundation has awarded Cornell University $18 million to begin development of a new, advanced synchrotron radiation x-ray source, called an Energy Recovery Linac (ERL).
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- If the developed world fails to invest more in African agriculture and rural infrastructure to benefit the poor and help them escape poverty, the world will become a much more dangerous place, says economist Per Pinstrup-Andersen. Investment in productivity-increasing agricultural research is particularly important. At present, he notes, agricultural science and investment generally benefit affluent farmers and consumers. Pinstrup-Andersen, the 2001 World Food Prize laureate and chair of the Science Council for the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, a consortium of 15 international research agricultural centers that focuses on setting priorities for international agricultural research, points out that about one-fifth of the world's population lives in dire poverty, and the already very skewed gap between rich and poor keeps growing. (February 15, 2005)
Cornell sophomore Nathan H. Poffenbarger, 20, of Woodsboro, Md., was charged Sunday morning (Feb. 19) with felony assault for allegedly stabbing 22-year-old Charles Holiday, a black Union College senior from Brooklyn, N.Y., who was visiting the Cornell campus.
For nearly nine years Cornell University researcher Christopher Clark has been listening to whale songs and calls in the North Atlantic using the navy's antisubmarine listening system.
GENEVA, N.Y. -- The sexual chemistry of the German cockroach has baffled scientists for years. Meanwhile the insect, which is one of the most serious food and residential pests worldwide, has been busily fouling up the planet essentially unhindered. Blattella germanica plagues humans in homes, apartments, restaurants, supermarkets, hospitals and any buildings where food is stored, prepared or served. The cockroach is notoriously resilient and difficult to control.