From springtails to ’60s-period shenanigans, this is what we took away from Reed’s annual competition of studying.
January 26, 2023
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Fencing. The birds of japanese Australia. Lock bypassing. Heuristic horticulture. Hula. Mushroom identification. Letterboxing. Burlesque. Beekeeping. The neurobiology of trauma. Argentine tango. Argentine slang. The geology of Reed. Knot tying. Find out how to clear your dishes.(*11*)
That’s only a small sampling of what was on supply at this 12 months’s Paideia, Reed’s annual competition of studying. For 10 days, members of the Reed group led and took half in lessons protecting the total (additional)curricular gamut, persevering with a convention that started in 1969. (Programs that first 12 months included metalsmithing, blues guitar, bread baking, survival coaching, and astrology.)(*11*)
The Public Affairs crew was alongside for the trip. Right here’s a peek into what we discovered.(*11*)
1. To keep away from damaging a fountain pen, at all times untwist the lid earlier than pulling, and by no means put the cap on the again when writing.(*11*)
2. When American Protestant missionaries arrived in Hawaii within the 1820s, they denounced hula as pagan and vulgar. The following a number of a long time introduced quite a few makes an attempt to ban, regulate, or discourage the dance—none of which may truly maintain hula down.(*11*)
3. A terrarium’s closed, self-sustaining ecosystem will be enriched by the addition of a small colony of springtails. These land-certain arthropods feast on natural supplies and might leap to nice heights relative to their physique measurement—however not excessive sufficient to flee the terrarium’s mossy paradise.(*11*)
4. The web was developed within the context of the Chilly Battle, and early analysis was largely funded by the Division of Protection.(*11*)
5. The Sallyport of Previous Dorm Block is a digital copy of Compton Wynyates, an English manor constructed across the flip of the sixteenth century. Devoted to Henry VIII, the manor’s gate—just like the Sallyport—boasts a false gable, crenellations, a sundial, three facet-by-facet home windows, a crosshatched brick sample, and a Tudor arch. Henry VIII’s dragon and greyhound, nevertheless? At Reed they’ve been changed by a number of griffins. (Bonus tidbit: Lara Croft’s manor has an analogous arch in one of many Tomb Raider video video games.)(*11*)
6. Being homosexual was decriminalized in 1791 in Paris within the wake of the French Revolution.(*11*)
7. Letterboxing, an orienteering sport involving stamp buying and selling, began in England in 1854 when a Dartmoor Nationwide Park information, James Perrott, left a card in a bottle by Cranmere Pool and invited others to depart their very own messages as effectively.(*11*)
8. Do not anticipate meditation to completely quiet the thoughts. Andrew Mason ’90 says his trainer was as soon as requested what his thoughts was like after 60 years of Zen meditation apply. “It’s a mess,” he stated. “But you should have seen it before.”(*11*)
9. Most individuals can solely maintain between 5 and 9 objects of their quick-time period reminiscence. Additionally, the time period “UX” was coined by Apple in 1993.(*11*)
10. All the time take heed to the entire tape. After rescuing a group of cassettes from songwriter Robbie Robertson’s storage unit, producer Cheryl Pawelsky found a uncooked and highly effective vocal-and-piano model of the track “Twilight” at the top of an in any other case clean facet of a tape. Pawelsky and Robertson determined to incorporate the model on The Band’s 2005 field-set anthology, A Musical Historical past, reasonably than the industrially produced reggae-tinged authentic 1976 launch.(*11*)
11. On the final day of Previous Commons in 1965, college students staged a mass meals struggle that resulted in 233 honor violations.(*11*)
Details gleaned from the next programs: Homosexual Individuals Existed Earlier than 1969, Hula Fundamentals, Pen-dora’s Field, Terrarium Constructing, The Secret Historical past of the Web, Structure of Reed School, Letterboxing 101, A Style of Zen Observe, Human-Pc Interplay and UX, Speaking Tunes, Reed within the Sixties(*11*)
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