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Live shot from the Burns Library Reading Room where 7 seniors have stopped by to look at our first edition of Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. We love this as a #SeniorWeek activity!
In BC Bookmarks ➡️ 'Sense of the Possible' by @BCSTM L.Professor Callid Keefe-Perry offers an introduction to the ways in which theologians have thought about imagination—the powerful human capacity to envision a future that has not yet come. brnw.ch/KeefePerry_BCB
Retired Boston College Theology Professor Thomas E. Wangler, who specialized in the history of religion in America & American Catholicism and was director of the department's Graduate Studies Program, has died.
He was known to ride a moped to campus in the '70s. on.bc.edu/ThomasWangler
Is 75 the new 65?
For many workers, 65 has long been a benchmark retirement age. As life expectancy grows, should this standard shift as well? Senior @retirementrsrch research economist Gal Wettstein weighs in for BBC News (UK).
bbc.com/worklife/artic…
The Schiller Institute announced the recipients of this year’s round of seed grants, totaling approximately $430K. Grants support research projects centered on energy use or production, the natural environment, and health. bc.edu/bc-web/sites/s…