Geoscientists from Brown University are part of a team at NASA looking for good places for humans to explore on the planet Mars, the most Earth-like…
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TGIF: 18 Things To Know About Rhode Island Politics & Media
There’s just one week until Christmas, so I want to wish a very happy holiday season to my readers, and offer my thanks for stopping by in 2015. …
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RISD Prof’s Holiday Book Picks For 2015
If you who still have people on your holiday shopping list, don’t panic! We have book picks from the chair of RISD’s Department of Literary Arts and…
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Environmentalists Hopeful Global Climate Pact Will Put New England On Renewable Energy Path
Global leaders in Paris over the weekend approved a historic international agreement to slow the warming of the planet. Here at home, the Rhode Island…
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This I Believe Rhode Island: Walden
The prolific writings and musings of Henry David Thoreau – the nineteenth-century author, poet, philosopher, and naturalist – cast a very long shadow…
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New Englanders Encouraged By Draft Climate Pact
Foreign ministers in Paris have a tough week ahead as they tackle the first draft of a global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But local…
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Brown University Students And Faculty Join U.N. Climate Change Summit
This week in Paris, world leaders launched a major climate change summit. The two-week meeting is aimed at negotiating an agreement to reduce carbon…
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RI Artscape: Tastes Change, Thanksgiving Remains
This month we bring you a special, Thanksgiving Rhode Island Artscape. We take look at the art and the history of the Thanksgiving menu, and how it’s…
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Letter Questions RIC President’s Leadership
A group of Rhode Island College faculty and staff has sent a strongly-worded letter to state officials, warning that college President Nancy Carriuolo…
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Cianci Portrait To Be Unveiled at City Hall Thursday
Buddy Cianci’s mayoral portrait is scheduled to be unveiled Thursday evening at Providence City Hall with a reception to follow at the Roma restaurant…