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BOOKS
Book suggestions from the college’s annual Good Reads summer reading list:
Improbable Voices by Derek Anderson ’85
Suggested by Stephanie Pridgeon, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies: An amazing first book by a queer Latinx poet whose way with words I cannot adequately describe. You could spend your summer in one poem.
Suggested by Bill Hiss ’66, retired colleague: 26 key but lesser-known historical figures, A to Z. First: the Portuguese explorer Albuquerque, important to European colonialism. He learned to use triangular sails to trek against the wind.
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner Suggested by Mary Pols, Bates Communications: Indie musician Zauner grapples with identity and heritage as she recounts life with her difficult but delightful Korean mom, especially cooking and eating, and the pain of losing her to cancer.
JAY BURNS
Thrown in the Throat by Benjamin Garcia
Suggested by Jack Pribram, Professor Emeritus: In the 1950s, scientist Dmitri Belyaev had an idea: If dogs came from wild wolves, could dogs come from passive wild foxes? A decades-long experiment began.
BATES HISTORY
QUIZ
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Fifty years ago, what did these items have in common: minestrone soup and Manwich on a grilled bun; sausage links, cream whipped potato, and corn fritter with maple syrup; fruit plate with date bread and luncheon loaf, potato chips, cucumber slices, and cottage cheese?
Answer: Those items comprised the Commons lunch menu on Jan. 19, 1972.
IF IT QUACKS?
Recently seen in the Waterman Bird Collection in Carnegie Science Hall, perched near a pine warbler and common bulfinch were these two interlopers. At lower right is Rubber Duck (Duccus rubberus, says the label), and at left is Dr. Quack (Anatidae medicus), whose label notes it is “found worldwide and continues to be harmful, but is challenging to identify.”
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How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog) by Lee Alan Dugatkin and Lyudmila Trut
