Mental Floss Originally Posted: May 19, 2016 If you’re a recovering English major with a debauched mind, then bawdy, literary-inspired word prompt games are likely more your speed than Apples to Apples. That’s why there’s Bards Dispense Profanity The Shakespeare-themed group party activity contains 100 “mock-serious” prompts and 375 answers copied word-for-word from Shakespeare’s works. […]
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SMU Research Originally Posted: May 23, 2016 Pawpawsaurus’s hearing wasn’t keen, and it lacked the infamous tail club of Ankylosaurus. But first-ever CT scans of Pawpawsaurus’s skull indicate the dino’s saving grace from predators may have been an acute sense of smell. Well-known armored dinosaur Ankylosaurus is famous for a hard knobby layer of bone […]
Star-Telegram Originally Posted: May 21, 2016 Greg Abbott’s book, bus tour put him in the political fast lane Gov. Greg Abbott’s bus tour is meant to take him places. I mean, besides a Half Price Books near Westworth Village. When Abbott’s Broken But Unbowed tour bus rolls into Fort Worth today, it will be hauling the governor’s political […]
Houston Chronicle Originally Posted: May 18, 2016 By Kevin Diaz WASHINGTON – There may be no Ted Cruz 2.0. Instead, all signs point to Cruz 2020. The first clue came in a final pep talk to dispirited campaign staffers last week in Houston, where Cruz recalled Ronald Reagan’s first failed White House bid in 1976, […]
Dallas Morning News Originally Posted: May 11, 2016 Professor Jeremy Yvon leMercier duQuesnay Adams — the words roll off the tongue as if steeped in history, and surely they were. The late professor of medieval European history at Southern Methodist University was himself a historical figure. Born in New Orleans to an old family of […]
SMU Research Originally Posted: May 10, 2016 CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its experiments are back in action, now taking physics data for 2016 to get an improved understanding of fundamental physics. Following its annual winter break, the most powerful collider in the world has been switched back on. Geneva-based CERN’s Large Hadron Collider […]
History Professor John R. Chavez has been awarded a University Research Council Grant to present a paper on internal colonialism at the annual meeting of the World History Association in Ghent, Belgium in July 2016.
Dallas Observer Originally Posted: May 4, 2016 Jeremy DuQuesnay Adams didn’t live a life in music, but for the world at large it will be the thing he’ll always be remembered for. Adams, a longtime professor at SMU, was a brilliant scholar who dedicate his life to education and writing. But in 1968, he became […]
Washington Times Originally Posted: May 5, 2016 Hillary Clinton so far has been able to skate through the Democratic presidential primary without having to truly confront what ultimately may be her biggest hurdles to the White House: numerous scandals and controversies that have taken a back seat in her tooth-and-nail fight with Sen. Bernard Sanders. […]
SMU NEWS Originally Posted: May 4, 2016 Distinguished SMU Professor of History Jeremy duQuesnay Adams, beloved by generations of students, honored by colleagues worldwide and the inspiration for a character in the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine, died May 2, 2016 at the age of 82. A memorial service is scheduled for Friday, May 6, at 11:00 […]