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Human: Formula

By Quinn Pham | October 15

Lately, while procrastinating on convoluted assignments, I ask myself why I chose college over the variety of options I could have gone with after high school, each leading me down a complex and unpredictable path. But then I look at the clock, fret about grades and go back to studying. The real questions that keep me up at night or some mornings while staring at my cereal in Dewick are: What was the decisive factor that made me who I am? What does it mean to exist? Where do I go from here?

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Weidner's Words: Mental health in the NBA

By Sam Weidner | October 15

The past year in the NBA was highlighted by a variety of compelling stories, from Kawhi Leonard's sudden rift with the Spurs to Bryan Colangelo’s burner Twitter accounts. Yet one story that didn’t gain the most news coverage but may end up leaving the most important legacy for the league is ...

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El Centro: Dancing through

By Haruka Noishiki | October 11

I sat on a brown, wooden floor sprinkled by sunlight, drawing a cautious half-circle around my folded legs. I was four. I was on the second floor of my preschool building where we had after-school programs, first-year homerooms, and an upstairs dance studio. I was at my after-school gymnastics program, ...

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The Coin Toss: NFL Week 6

By Bradley Schussel | October 11

Welcome to The Coin Toss, where I make bold predictions about your favorite professional sports.Last week’s predictions went one-for-three, thanks to the Vikings beating the Eagles in Philadelphia. Josh Rosen didn’t break out with three-plus touchdowns (only one), and the Titans lost to the Bills ...

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Red Star: Down with the Court

By Aneurin Canham-Clyne | October 11

Content warning: This column mentions sexual assault.With Kavanaugh confirmed, the left faces two choices: court packing as soon as the Democrats have the numbers or long-term abolition. The Republicans have put a far-right judge, who is an enemy of workers, women and minorities, on this unelected ...

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Pretty Lawns and Gardens: Where is the Kindle curve?

By Tys Sweeney | October 10

Amazon’s Kindle debuted in 2007. It was expensive and pretty ugly. Today, after more than a decade of development, the Kindle is an affordable and high-quality product, but I’ve always had a lingering question: Is the Kindle an environmentally sound option? In this week’s piece, I will investigate ...

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The Tide: Lucy McBath

By Matt Rice | October 10

Georgia’s 6th Congressional District vaulted into the national spotlight early last year. Its sitting representative, Tom Price, had been confirmed as President Trump’s secretary of Health and Human Services, triggering a special election in the suburban district just north of Atlanta. The runoff between Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel and former congressional aide Jon Ossoff, a first-time political candidate, was seen as a referendum on the young presidency. Handel barely edged out a win in the district formerly held by House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and she is facing a substantial reelection fight this fall. Last year, Ossoff was painted as an out-of-touch, Washington-based political operative who cared more for his own ambition than he did for the district where he had grown up. This fall, Representative Handel must overcome a well-funded, inspiring opponent.

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The Anti-Bostonian: The case for the Celtics' motley cast of characters

By Jeremy Goldstein | October 10

For my money, the most compelling part about the Boston Celtics is their eclectic cast of characters.From all walks of life and all corners of the globe (considering it may not be round in this instance), the Celtics present a crew that almost mirrors the city itself. Hard, working-class strongmen ...

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Cheeses of Suburbia: Born for sticks

By Zachary Hertz and Brady Shea | October 10

Zachary Hertz (ZH): Given recent political events, we’ve chosen Paramore’s “RIOT!” (2007) this week, starring Evgeni Dobranov, a serial tennis player with a mild interest in computer science whose love for “Misery Business” constantly prevents other people from using the shower. We have ...

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The Starving Aesthete: 'Surrealistic Pillow'

By James Ray | October 9

Among certain segments of the hipster community, there has arisen a consensus that the world actually ended sometime in the '60s, and that the three subsequent generations have just been milling about the wreckage waiting for the other shoe to drop. In 1967, the undulating protoplasm of capitalism ...

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The Weekly Chirp: Concrete jungle

By Henry Stevens | October 9

It’s always fun to examine the beautiful, crazy, wild, extravagant species of birds from around the world online, but at the end of the day, there’s nothing better than going outside and actually seeing birds yourself — even if they don’t happen to be pretty and decorated like a bird-of-paradise. Turns out, our campus attracts all sorts of cool birds annually. In just four years of data collected by a handful of bird nerds, we’ve collectively recorded 136 species of bird! On the right day during spring migration in May, you could walk from Dewick to Dowling and find over 20 species in 10 minutes. Hard to believe, right? At first it doesn’t seem possible, but if you consider where we are located geographically, it starts to make some sense.

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Takeaways: Uyghurs of East Turkestan are under attack — don’t look away

By Nesi Altaras | October 9

The issue of the Chinese government’s repression of Uyghurs became a subject of international attention after a U.N. report released toward the end of the summer laid bare the severity of the situation.However, the world was already aware of the mistreatment of these people. It is no secret that China ...

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Postgame Press: To the pain

By David Meyer | October 9

To the pain. Westley from "The Princess Bride" (1987) demands a duel not to the death, but to the pain. I do not plan on ever getting into a duel, certainly not one that ends in the gruesome way he describes. But sports may be described as “to the pain.” We cheer and give our hearts to ...

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The Coin Toss: NFL Week 5

By Bradley Schussel | October 4

Welcome to The Coin Toss, where I make bold predictions about your favorite professional sports.First a recap of last week. I had the Browns over the Raiders, but Oakland took that game by three in overtime. I correctly picked the Texans over the Colts in Indianapolis. I also predicted a bounce-back ...

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Pretty Lawns and Gardens: The humanity in energy production

By Tys Sweeney | October 4

The arguments in favor of nuclear power are strong. We need plentiful low-cost, carbon-free energy to power our society and combat global warming. A shift to nuclear energy would tilt geopolitical power structures away from oil-producing nations and allow us to more easily address human rights abuses ...

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El Centro: Deeper into Halligan

By Haruka Noishiki | October 4

Last week, I explored the value that Halligan and the computer science community has for me. It’s a space where I find supportive women. The undergraduate teaching assistants (TAs), students with more experience in the computer science department, proved essential to a computer science and international ...

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Movie Theater Butter: Rewatching movies

By Alexi Reich | October 4

I’ve only watched one new movie since starting college. That's the beginning of an incredibly asinine anecdote, but allow me to muse on my earlier statement.Those of you who are long-time readers will remember my first column, from a whole three weeks ago, in which I talked about the sentimentality ...

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Takeaways: Jacinda Ardern

By Nesi Altaras | October 3

When Jacinda Ardern took over the leadership of the New Zealand Labour Party (Labour), her chances of leading the party into government seemed small. She faced sexist questioning from the media about her life plans. The National Party’s (National) center-right government, led by Bill English, seemed ...

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The Tide: Ilhan Omar

By Matt Rice | October 3

Minnesota State Representative Ilhan Omar has already made history as a millennial legislator, as a person who came to the U.S. as refugee and the first Somali-American legislator in U.S. history. Omar was first elected in 2016 to serve a central Minneapolis state house district. This November, she, ...

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The Anti-Bostonian: The case against the Red Sox pitching staff

By Jeremy Goldstein | October 3

The Price is wrong? Or maybe it’s just not on Sale?While you can sue me over the puns, blaming an overly aggressive columnist is not an antidote to Price and Sale's poor postseason outings. In the playoffs, the duo has been polar opposites. No, not that one has been monumentally stellar and the ...

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