Venturing off campus is a natural phenomenon for the new college student, and this week’s column reflects that.New England is known for its mark on U.S. history, its ‘chowdah’ and its brief stint with beautiful fall foliage before devastating winters. With the viewing window for this sight being ...
Ever since last year's attempted coup, the Erdogan regime in Turkey has become even more sensitive to criticism and has increased its arrests of journalists, NGO workers and others who speak up against the authoritarian regime. Lately, these raids and long-term detainments have started to affect ...
To state the unmistakeable, the seasons are changing. The sun starts to fade more quickly each day, but the sky retains its stark Massachusetts blue. It's good to let the breeze in; you open the window before you leave. Later you come back and the room is fresh and slightly chilly, the scent of ...
In a well intentioned effort to mitigate climate change, people buy hybrids and electric cars to limit their carbon footprint and stop melting the homes of our fluffy friends up north. The trouble is, these cars do not do this.The car that cemented itself as the darling of eco-conscious celebrities ...
This is Denise Looi, a first-year from Singapore. She’s planning to double major in international relations and music, and this semester she’s taking some courses for international relations as well as History of Western Music. Denise has been playing the piano for 16 years, the flute for six years ...
I have a brother six years younger than me, and therefore I spent much of my childhood drowning in Wiggles CDs, "Blue’s Clues" (1996–2007) reruns and other things that constituted kids' entertainment in 2010. The worst of it came when my mother got one of those minivan TVs that only ...
With autumn finally beginning, now is the best time to break out all of those apple and spice recipes. This week, I had the opportunity to try my hand at a recipe for apple hill cake which had originally been created by my great-aunt. Although she was a far better baker than I, a humble college student, ...
Over the weekend, my boyfriend and I had intended to watch "Blade Runner 2049," but after plans fell through, I decided it would be best to revisit the original, as well as briefly skim Philip K. Dick’s "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (1968). For those of you who aren’t Blade ...
It is never a nice thing when your owners make a statement saying they back you — chances are it means the clock is really ticking now. This is especially likely given the amount of money — close to $200 million on reinforcements all over — spent this summer. Soccer is a cruel game because ...
Anyone who knows me could tell you that I am very passionate about one argument: Spotify vs. Apple Music. In economics, we often talk about substitutes, or completely interchangeable products. At face value, that's what they are. Spotify and Apple offer almost identical music-streaming services. The pricing tiers, the music available, the features... so why do people choose one over the other? I am a die-hard Spotify fan, but I wanted to find out if Apple Music had any redeeming qualities. So, I swallowed my pride and signed up for the free trial, for science of course. To compare the two, I had to dig deeper.
If you’re like me, you likely need total darkness and quiet to get a good night’s sleep. Even then, it’ll take over an hour of lying in bed, pretending to sleep, before you actually fall asleep. If you’re like me, you also envy those who can fall asleep at a moment’s notice, seemingly by command. ...
If I had met sophomore-me last year, I would have been jealous. A member of six clubs, about to declare a major and surrounded by a solid group of friends, I’ve been checking all the boxes that first-year-me wanted to check.
When Brazilian phenom Neymar was 15 years old, he was making almost $2,800 a month at Santos FC. Outside of the United States, young international soccer players are paid for their labor once they make well-known youth clubs because they are treated as investments. If and when they are sold to professional ...
This is Andy Cheigh, a first-year from Seoul, South Korea. Andy plans to major in computer science, and he took part in his high school choir for three years as a tenor. His favorite food is noodles! Andy shared what today's music scene in Korea looks like. Haruka (H): What’s pop music in Korea ...
Hall, Rosbash and Young. This is a time where media flashes, urgent and aggressive, on your screen, in your pocket, while you eat, while you’re trying to study. Names claim your attention and seem to disappear in a moment, replaced by the next ones in the boom and bust of what feels like increasingly urgent and critical stories. These names in particular should not break the cycle for any reason, being the sort of forgettable white-guy names found on many of your syllabi; unfortunately, their moment of fame comes at a time when just about everything else in the world seems more important.
Researchers at Boston University recently found a biomarker that can help diagnose chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in living patients. CTE results from regular blows in the head and concussions in particular. Up until now, CTE was only diagnosable and examinable postmortem. According to an ...
In our current political climate, many issues caused by identity politics stem from empathy. On this topic, Yale Psychology Professor Paul Bloom explains the dangers of empathetic decision-making in "Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion" (2016).Firstly, empathy is identifying ...
Content warning: This column mentions sexual violence.Few people have had as flamboyant, controversial or divisive of a public persona as Hugh Hefner. I myself have had wavering opinions about Hefner, beginning in childhood (I grew up in Los Angeles, so in many ways Playboy was part of my community). ...
This week, I chose a recipe that doesn’t originate from my family. When my mother was in grade school, there was a woman by the name of Rose Doak who worked in the cafeteria and was beloved by the children for the baked goods that she would make. One of her recipes for peanut butter squares had specifically ...
On Saturday, Pep Guardiola delivered his strongest performance yet as Manchester City manager with a 1–0 victory at Stamford Bridge against defending champions Chelsea. While many will point to the statistics of the previous three games — beating Watford 6–0, Crystal Palace 5–0 and 10-man Liverpool ...
