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What Writers Do

Although movies made from his screenplays have grossed hundreds of millions of dollars, Josh Friedman ’89 had more to say. So he started a blog.

Pass the Gnocchi, Please

To win the best students, universities now compete for their stomachs as well as their minds.

Awake and Sing!

If you’ve long been hankering to gather around the piano with your family and sing classic songs of the American Yiddish theater, here’s your chance.

The New Atomic Scientists

Nanomaterials may prevent your chinos from getting stained, but more and more researchers are asking: are they safe?

Remember comic books? In recent years, illustrators and writers have used the form to create serious literature. Mark Siegel ’89 and his wife, author Siena Cherson Siegel ’90, are among the passionate few leading the charge.

Artificial Intelligence

I first became acquainted with computer scientists in the mid-1960s, when I went to work in a computer systems lab. My assignment was to make computers more user-friendly. . .

Brown: How Radical?

I wish you could have published the brief profile of three class of 2006 members who joined the marines without rehashing the tired stereotype that the average Brown student “thinks the United States is responsible for 95 percent of the world’s ills" . . .

First Frisbees

Your article on ultimateFrisbee (May/June 2006) was an extraordinary and welcome update on theprogress of this magnificent team sport. . .

The Cost of Fairness

I read “The Bookstore Business”with great interest (Elms, May/June). I write from the perspective of a twenty-five-year career in higher education. . .

Puzzled

I was so excited when you began publishing an acrostic in the BAM. It brought me back to leisurely Sunday brunches spent doing the New York Times puzzles in the Ratty. . .

Warming to the BAM

As Brown alumni and three-time Brown parents, we were especially pleased to read the review by Tim Tibbitts ’90 of the new book on global warming written by our son. . .

Taking Control

As described in the March/April BAM, we have coordinated Project Muso Ladamunen in Yirimadjo, Mali, for the past year. . .

Good and Evil

The BAM is usually interesting and sometimes surprising, but I got a real shock when I read the last sentence of the Mail Room letter from Gerry Murphy ’69 in the March/April issue. . .

Beyond Darfur

We are delighted that Brown has made the right decision and divested from companies profiting from the crisis in Darfur. . .