Remaking the United States Supreme Court in the Courts’ of Appeals Image

We argue that Congress should remake the United States Supreme Court in the U.S. courts\u27 of appeals image by increasing the size of the Court\u27s membership, authorizing panel decisionmaking, and retaining an en banc procedure for select cases. In so doing, Congress would expand the Court\u27s capacity to decide cases, facilitating enhanced clarity and consistency in the law as well as heightened monitoring of lower courts and the other branches. Remaking the Court in this way would not only expand the Court\u27s decisionmaking capacity but also improve the Court\u27s composition, competence, and functioning

Reframing the Role of Renaissance Women: Anne Boleyn as a Humanist

Recent work by historians like Sarah Ross (The Birth of Feminism: Women as Intellectuals in Renaissance Italy and England, 2008) reframes the role of gender in the Renaissance. Humanism, as well as reformist ideas about the church, spread widely across Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries among learned women. In England, these changes are still usually associated with men like Sir Thomas More or Henry VIII himself. Research into Anne Boleyn’s correspondence and library suggests that she directly participated in women’s intellectual circles, playing an important and ignored role at the English court in that regard. This research poster emphasizes her networks among educated and politically powerful women in Europe including Marguerite de Navarre, Louise of Savoy, and Claude of France, who influenced Anne Boleyn during her time in French court under Francis I. Beyond networks, Anne Boleyn’s library also suggests the kinds of reading and interests women pursued. Catalogues of the libraries of Henry VIII and Anne recently completed by the historian James Carley enable a deeper study of authors who influenced Anne--Bible translators like Lefèvre d’Etaples (French) and William Tyndale (English), evangelical writers associated with Anne’s networks (Clémont Marot), as well as other kinds of books and manuscripts (the anonymous psalter Epistres et Evangiles). By comparing these books with those in the library of Henry VIII as well as using Anne’s correspondence and other manuscripts, a much clearer vision of how a Renaissance for women on the continent influenced England in this period emerges

Hazards of Bird Life

There is nothing in nature that expresses more the pure embodiment of joy-absolute freedom from care and grief-unalloyed brimming-over happiness- than the song of a bird. It may be the tipsy, bubbling song of the wren stopping for a melodious moment in his mad . scramble for bugs among the vines on your back porch; it may be the fullthroated whistle of the gorgeous cardinal signalling for . a mate to share the claim he has staked out among the maples of The Knoll; or perhaps it chances to be the sweet gurgle of the eaves-martin from his mud jug of a nest plastered high up under the eaves of the barn

The snakes of Iowa

Altho the popular attitude toward snakes has always been hostile, most of them are harmless and they are often of great value to agriculture. The common practice of killing every snake that shows its head grows out of a lack of knowledge about these animals and their frequent usefulness. It is of economic importance to agriculture in Iowa and elsewhere to have available information as to the useful species of snakes, and ways of separating them from the harmful kinds

Winged Waifs of Winter...

Who are they, these soft-clothed folk of the winter fields. and woods? Every one of us is interested in them, but how few are acquainted. Why did they stay here where it is cold while other birds-myriads of them-of hundreds of kinds went southing to a kinder climate

Notes on the Occurrence of Warts on Cottontail Rabbits

About twelve years ago my attention was drawn to some interesting epithelial growths on the head of a cottontail rabbit which was sent to the college by Mr. J. Schuyler Long, who wrote from the Iowa School for the Deaf at Council Bluffs. The head and accompanying letter were referred to Professor H. E. Summers, then head of the Department of Zoology at Iowa State College. The letter reads: I am sending you a rabbit\u27s head... It has several curious growths which resemble horns. I have killed a great many rabbits but never saw anything like it before. I should be pleased to hear... as to the explanation of this peculiar formation. The rabbit from which the head was taken was caught in a trap by one of our boys. In all other respects it looked like an ordinary rabbit and exhibited no other peculiarities, except that on two places on the body were growths similar in color and texture to these horns, but not pointed. They were about an inch square or a little less, and were raised about 3/4 to 1/2 inch out of the skin

Reframing the Role of Renaissance Women: Anne Boleyn as a Humanist

Recent work by historians like Sarah Ross (The Birth of Feminism: Women as Intellectuals in Renaissance Italy and England, 2008) reframes the role of gender in the Renaissance. Humanism, as well as reformist ideas about the church, spread widely across Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries among learned women. In England, these changes are still usually associated with men like Sir Thomas More or Henry VIII himself. Research into Anne Boleyn’s correspondence and library suggests that she directly participated in women’s intellectual circles, playing an important and ignored role at the English court in that regard. This research poster emphasizes her networks among educated and politically powerful women in Europe including Marguerite de Navarre, Louise of Savoy, and Claude of France, who influenced Anne Boleyn during her time in French court under Francis I. Beyond networks, Anne Boleyn’s library also suggests the kinds of reading and interests women pursued. Catalogues of the libraries of Henry VIII and Anne recently completed by the historian James Carley enable a deeper study of authors who influenced Anne--Bible translators like Lefèvre d’Etaples (French) and William Tyndale (English), evangelical writers associated with Anne’s networks (Clémont Marot), as well as other kinds of books and manuscripts (the anonymous psalter Epistres et Evangiles). By comparing these books with those in the library of Henry VIII as well as using Anne’s correspondence and other manuscripts, a much clearer vision of how a Renaissance for women on the continent influenced England in this period emerges

A Fur Chat

The first manufacturer, so they tell us, was that ancient man in far-off antiquity who pulled the skin off a furry beast and wrapped it about him. From a pelt, torn off in order to get at the meat of his prey, he had made him a garment. It warmed him, comforted him, protected him from bramble scratches and insect bites. What was it to him that his descendants, a thousand generations down the years, would fashion delicate furs into elaborate, soft robes of exquisite beauty and frailty- the garb of luxury? To him they served primal needs, rough and undressed tho they were. We may wonder, but we can never know, how long man wore skins before he learned to scrape them with the chipped edges of flint scrapers, to have his women chew their edges to make them soft, to dry them and smoke them and oil them and work them into something like flexibility

Studies of the Collembolan Eye

In any primitive group of animals, there is an unusual interest attached to any organ which shows a simple structure, as having a possible bearing upon the history of the organ in a more highly specialized condition, as found in higher, closely related groups. Sometimes organs of seemingly simple structure are very puzzling from the fact that we are at a loss to determine whether their condition is primitive, or is due to degradation or partial atrophy. Embryological studies are often of value in determining the case, But not always. In entomology we have surprisingly few embryological studies which are specific enough to guide us in such determinations. When a group of insects varies widely however, in relation to any specified structure, a comparative study of its adult condition in the different members of the group may be of value