For an hour each day, Jeremy Gleick sets aside his biochemistry and neuroscience textbooks and picks up playing cards, juggling balls and sometimes even knives. “(Learning something new each day) is an opportunity to get to do something I ordinarily would not be able to do,” Gleick said. Read more...

Photo: Jeremy Gleick, a third-year neuroscience student, is demonstrating some card tricks above – one of the many things he has learned during what he calls his “learning hour.” Gleick sets aside an hour every day to learn something and has been doing so for about 3 1/2 years.

Growing up in predominantly Hindu India, Ravi Zacharias came across many instances where people would greet him, a Christian, with “Merry Christmas.” Since moving to Atlanta, Georgia in 1985, Zacharias said he has noticed that people greet each other with a more inclusive phrases such as “Happy Holidays.” Zacharias hopes to explore the topic of tolerance, what he describes as the understanding of the differences between cultures and why they exist, at the annual Veritas Forum at UCLA in Royce Hall this evening. Read more...

Photo: Ravi Zacharias, a speaker and author on Christian apologetics, will speak about tolerance at today’s UCLA Veritas Forum in Royce Hall.