July in Cleveland usually entails supporting a mediocre Indians team and hoping that a cool band plays at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This summer will be a little more exciting. The Republican National Convention could be the most dramatic weekend in the city since LeBron’s decision to take his ...
Steampunk is a difficult genre, not only to categorize but to master. It can involve everything from tiny robots infused into everyone's blood at the orders of a 19th-century version of Genghis Khan's horde to necromancers raising hordes of the dead to female airship captains carrying secretive ...
The MBTA Green Line Extension Project may not get built because costs have risen astronomically to $3 billion, which would make it the most costly rail expansion per mile in the transit agency’s history. And it is not even a subway line. In fact, most of the right-of-way already exists alongside ...
For 75 seconds, no words were spoken. The crowd roared, the stadium shook and the players jumped around in the pure and unfiltered joy that only accompanies the occurrence of the impossible. For the second consecutive night, in that city, in that ballpark, the dynasty refused to go peacefully; in the ...
Earlier today I was reading an article in The New Yorker about self-help books and whether they actually make you a better person. The article, “The Life Biz” questions the motives of people aiming to “Win Friends and Influence People,” claiming that it’s more about winning clientele and ...
The entire premise of higher education is to allow for the mind to explore and develop, and to provide a place for students to discover their true passions to prepare them for their professional careers. That’s what we’ve all been told right? So why don’t colleges allow for their student-athletes ...
We are at war with the earth.The atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide stands above 400 parts per million, likely the highest level in the past 20 million years. Oceans are acidifying so intensely and so rapidly that scientists warn that coral reefs will probably disappear within the next 25 years. ...
When I was a kid, like many other children across the country, I had to make a family tree. My teacher showed us some samples she kept from previous years. They were lightened by the sun, and included old black and white photographs. Some of them went way, way back, some to the founding of this country. ...
Over spring break, the CW did a thing. Characters on both “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” and “Jane the Virgin,” which air back-to-back on Monday nights, explicitly interrogated whether their women-led stories pass the Bechdel test. Each show’s writers could’ve strung together an episode’s worth ...
There aren’t any clouds here in Sunny SoCal, so I’ve created my own. And right now, I’m dancing on it. Just me, myself and I. On Cloud 9.I didn’t intend on coming home. But then I did a thing. On Saturday evening, JetBlue schlepped me to California a mere seven hours after I’d purchased my ...
"In a way, I'm probably immortal."In the 14th minute of the Netherlands-France friendly on Friday, the world stopped to pay tribute to a maverick. Johan Cruyff was perhaps the most famous player to have ever donned the No. 14 shirt, at a time when most players in the first team wore the ...
Bass lines matter. In pop music, especially, we look for the bass line to tell us how to get into the groove of the song, and that holds true for a cappella. Even when the other harmonies are off engaging in some rhythmic shenanigans, the bass continues to ground the group in the correct key and time ...
Alice Tattevin is a first-year from Paris, France who sat with me to discuss the difference between French and American fashion, her addiction to shoes and the benefits of everyday apparel over runway couture.Parker Selman: Where are you from?Alice Tattevin: Paris, France.PS: How does Parisian fashion ...
Editor’s note: This column is part of a fictional weekly serial.In retrospect, Cecilia could see how hacking the classified historical records of a foreign country’s security service might have been a bad idea. She’d done it a few times for her non-profit back home, always without informing her ...
During his time at Barcelona, Zlatan Ibrahimovic once famously compared himself to a Ferrari. While it was in reference to his lack of playing time, the two certainly have commonalities. Powerful yet graceful. Stylish and precise. But after scoring his 100th league goal for PSG over the weekend, perhaps a more pertinent comparison is fine wine. Since he turned thirty, Ibrahimovic has scored at least an astonishing thirty five goals per season, higher than any other stretch of his career. This season, at the age of 34,Ibrahimovic is having one of his best seasons to date. During PSG's most recent 9-0 dismantling of Troyes, he scored four goals, including a sublime, acrobatic one-time finish and a side-footed volley that darted into the top right corner. With the goals, he raised his tally to 27 league goals on the season and, in doing so, secured PSG their fourth consecutive Ligue 1 title.
Science is everywhere! By everywhere, I don’t mean Tisch group study the night before all of the chemistry and biology exams. Science rules most things in the world around us, including all of the cooking and baking processes that turn raw ingredients into delicious food. Food chemistry is by far ...
Apparently Google searches about moving to Canada have spiked in the last month. Part of the effect is probably heartthrob and "The Arena"-favorite Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who was just in Washington, D.C. But I’m honestly not sure that Canada won’t build a wall to keep Americans ...
Amtrak had a great fiscal year of 2015.Although our national passenger railroad as a whole lost more than $1 billion, the most visible part of its business — its operation of scheduled intercity passenger trains — required a mere $170 million subsidy on a $2.6 billion revenue. This is a startlingly ...
Pooja: If you were one of the several people that attended the Senior Dinner at Monaco’s house last week, you would have been witness to NYSD’s shameless advertising of our column during the open mic. However, I must mention how that open mic session was probably one of the cutest student havens ...
Before he had ever played in a professional game, Sports Illustrated christened him the “Chosen One,” and he had the moniker tattooed across his upper back. Before he had graduated from high school, his games were nationally televised spectacles with him as the preternaturally gifted focal point. ...
