Behold the Little Free Energy Library, erected today, 11 February, in honor of the birthday of Josiah Willard Gibbs and stocked, initially, with his works. Mounted at Kenyon College in what I think is one of the most delightfully foolish things I've ever done. #whimsy #LittleFreeLibrary #FreeEnergy #Gibbs #bookstodon #KenyonCollege

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Columbus-raised photographer Ming Smith showcases Black history, culture and spirituality in four latest Ohio exhibitions

Ming Smith described her first interaction with photography — using her mother’s camera to capture her kindergarten classmates when she was only 5 years old — as being life-changing, setting the course for the future of her career.  Now, over 70 years later, Smith finds herself with not just one, but four ongoing Ohio exhibitions, three of […]

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#KenyonCollege changed its athletic moniker; here’s my #superb_owl. “The name Owls is inspired by the Kokosing River…[which] loosely translates to ‘River of Little Owls’... We have, in our Kenyon way, been singing their praises for years in Kokosing Farewell. The Kenyon owl was designed to align with owls native to Ohio, including the horned and Eastern-screech owl, but — because it is a logo and not a figurative drawing — it is not a strict interpretation of any one species.”
David Foster Wallace's Legendary Commencement Speech | Stephen Clark (sgclark.com)

Back in 2005, David Foster Wallace (DFW) gave the commencement speech at Kenyon College in Gambier, OH. As with many things that DFW did, it took on a life

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A small but mighty crew of Kenyon College faculty and students at the ACS meeting in Indy.

#ACSSpring2023 #chemistry #ChemiVerse #KenyonCollege #PUI #ProfLife #ProudToBeAChemist #BlackInChem #BlackInSTEM