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- The Mayo Clinic: Faith - Hope - Science tells the story of a unique medical institution that has been called a "Medical Mecca," the "Supreme Court of Medicine," and the "place for hope where there is no hope." The Mayo Clinic began in 1883 as an unlikely partnership between the Sisters of Saint Francis and a country doctor named William Worrall Mayo after a devastating tornado in rural Minnesota. Since then, it has grown into an organization that treats more than a million patients a year from all 50 states and 150 countries. Dr. Mayo had a simple philosophy he imparted to his sons Will and Charlie: "the needs of the patient come first." They wouldn't treat diseases...they would treat people. In a world where healthcare delivery is typically fragmented among individual specialties, the Mayo Clinic practices a multi-specialty, team-based approach that has, from its beginnings, created a culture that thrives on collaboration.
- In 1854, noted American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau published his influential book 'Walden; or, Life in the Woods' about his attempt to live self-sufficiently in his cabin in the woods near Walden Pond, MA for two years.
- On June 19th the esteemed Academy of Arts and Sciences released their investigative report to Congress on the declining state of the Humanities and Social Sciences in our nation's schools. Introducing that report was a 7-minute film by the Ewers Brothers featuring several of the country's most notable Humanists. Through first hand interviews with the likes of George Lucas, Yo-Yo Ma, Sandra Day O'Connor, John Lithgow and others, The Ewers Brothers paint a stirring portrait of the importance of the Humanities in our national curriculum and beg the larger question of what would happen to us as a nation without them.
- An in-depth 200-year chronicle of the esteemed Colby College's historic past.