A Lecture Fit For Our Attention Spans

While skipping to class this morning, we stumbled upon a large group gathered on Locust Walk. Since we were running late - it was our second class so we were already totally over the "first day of school, let's be on time," enthusiasm - we weren't able to check it out. Some research later on, however, clued us in that the crowd was gathered to listen to biology professor Nancy Bonini give a lecture entitled Drosophila and Human Disease: How the Fly Provides Insight into Brain Disease and Injury.

The interesting part about this (beyond the obviously interesting subject material, or something?) was that it was just a minute long. It took us almost three minutes to sound out all of the words in the title, so we're more than curious about the series of which it was a part, 60-Second Lectures. Each semester, the School of Arts and Sciences invites professors to give micro-lectures on an interesting topic of his or her choosing. Sure sounds like a great way to do some learning while you're avoiding fliers! (Who can argue with, "I'd take it, but I'm trying to learn about Drosophila and Human Disease?")

Be sure to check out the other lectures this September (listed after the jump). Videos of past lectures are also available here.September 16 Herman Beavers Associate Professor of English When Poetry Gets the Blues

September 23 Angela Duckworth Assistant Professor of Psychology Why Achievement Isn't "Normal"

September 30 Philippe Bourgois Richard Perry University Professor of Anthropology, and Family Medicine and Community Health Anthropology and Globalization: An Urgent Challenge and Responsibility