"Can you come later?" My cousin asks from Israel. Terrorist gunmen are killing people in the building below. She is in shelter. It is October 7 again. I am on a jet tracking its route over the North Pole to France. I am going back, a return in time and space.
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Catherine discusses her research and how it was supported by the Guarini Alumni Research Award. For more information about Catherine and her program, visit:
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You might take the electronic beep for granted. It's high pitched, alien, maybe even a little cute, maybe even a little annoying. It embodies the machine and yet, it is an entirely human-made sound. A simple piezo buzzer and a sine tone shaped the way in which analog machines sounded for decades, eventually bleeding into the digital technology. Well, what does technology sound like?
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One of the scariest things for me, and I think a lot of us, is entering a space without knowing the rules — both implicit and explicit — by which it operates. It's your first time at your partner's family's house for dinner; a teacher hands you a blank piece of paper; an acquaintance invited you to come jam with them and their buddies; you're playing a co-op battle royale game as a guest on a team that's known each other since middle school.
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Long-term paleoclimate records show that the Earth's past climate has repeatedly experienced large, abrupt climate shifts with major ecological impacts. Such drastic shifts are of great interest as they give clues to controls and sensitivity of future extreme climate response.
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