Polymathic Pizza

Computer science and engineering professor Shrikanth Narayanan discusses the polymathic patterning of multiple realities through digital technology.

Marshall School business professor Nandini Rajagopalan probes business as a polymathic art form.

Professor Phillip Ethington discusses the polymathic future of digitally based history.

Drawing upon his new book, Hollywood Sign, University Professor Leo Braudy suggests a polymathic approach to literature, cinema, and cultural history.

Professor of philosophy Edwin McCann discusses philosophy as a basic tool of thought.

How and why do we feel emotion? Anger, love, hurt, compassion, empathy, regret, and happiness are just some of the feelings that a song, a scent, or an old photograph of someone can conjure inside of us. Emotion and emotional memory are fundamental to our lived experience as human beings. What is the evolutionary purpose of emotion? Of emotional memory? We turn to Jonathan Gratch to get in touch with the process and purpose behind our feelings.