What’s a MOOC, anyway? The university sticks a toe in the water to find out.

A scholar of “decision theory” with lots of decisions to make.

A celebration of Scotland’s bard.

AYA governors do a little post-Sandy cleanup.

The Connecticut winters with the most white stuff.

The Beinecke, rendered in ice for its 50th birthday.

Yale paleontologists name a reptile after Obama.

New procedures take effect.

DeStefano, too, is leaving after 20 years.

After a near miss at Yale, an offer to run Vanderbilt’s divinity school.

Memories—even those of recent traumas—are malleable.

Our brain misreads the sugar, leading us to overeat.

Employment growth sank by 30 percent in US manufacturing.

The search for the original “full monty.”

Curbing bullying takes clear heads and thoughtful bystanders.

New books, music, films, or other works by Yale faculty, staff, and alumni.

Who painted this exceptional seventeenth-century Italian portrait? We don’t know.