Kate Lund
Kate Lund
Recent Stories
LUND: New eyes for old haunts
As a freshman, I often visited the cemetery.
LUND: Learning science
Bucket List
Freshman spring, I took a course called “Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics,” which required a “working knowledge of elementary algebra” and met beneath busts of Kant and Goethe on the first floor of Linsley-Chittenden Hall. My grandma told her friends that I was majoring in rocket science.
LUND: Bucket List: Library science
I worry a lot about not taking advantage of Yale’s library resources. Early in my Yale career, I quit every panlist I’d been strong-armed into and signed up for the e-newsletter Nota Bene: News from the Yale Library.
Lund: the Luddite’s lament
I have never been very hip to the times.
Banner's back, baby
In debt, “The Banner” ceased to be a student organization, its staff reduced to a few salaried undergraduates. Now, money problems are biting on the other end. With the AYA shaking out its pockets, “The Banner” was first to go. What will happen now that it is — poorer, perhaps — but free?
A new angle on art
Beginning Friday, this year’s student guides at the gallery will debut the tours they have spent an entire year preparing. The program, which started 12 years ago, trains undergraduates to give themed tours around the gallery, incorporating four works of art through a common lens.
THIS BE ART: Leslie Jamison GRAD ’13
Leslie Jamison is a Yale grad student, but right now she’s answering questions from a writing residency in the woods somewhere that’s she’s not allowed to talk about.
2010, SIGNS OF THE APOCALYPSE, AS BROUGHT TO YOU BY KATE AND MADISON
SWITZERLAND After two electrical failures, the Hadron Particle Accelerator in Geneva is up and running again. Which is good news for physicists looking to recreate conditions last seen one trillionth of a second after the Big Bang and bad news for the small camp who share the fears of Nobel prizing winning (for peace, not science) physicist Francesco Calogero who, authored the paper timidly titled, “Might a Laboratory Experiment Destroy Planet Earth?” Some scientists filed a lawsuit with the European Court of Human Rights, concerned the collider could create a tiny black hole to either obliterate the earth, or else reduce it to a tiny strangelet (this is actually a word) — a dense, lumpy version of the Earth. Dr. Arkani-Hamed, a snarky particle theorist at Princeton, responded by saying there is also a small probability that the collider “might make dragons that might eat us up.”
Beinecke blogs via Room 26
For the past seven years, this office has housed Timothy Young and Nancy Kuhl, the curators responsible for “Room 26: Cabinet of Curiosities” — a blog featuring “new acquisitions, unique documents, and visual and textual curiosities” from the collections of the Beinecke.
21st Century Groov(e)
It’s 1995 and seven-year-old Julian Kantor ’11 has a great idea. He writes a letter to the executives of a company responsible for the video game Pit Fighter, suggesting they introduce a character wearing a chicken suit. Nothing happens.