Scott Brooks was fired yesterday as the coach of the Oklahoma City Thunder after narrowly missing the playoffs on the final night of the regular season. Surprisingly enough, Brooks had been the fourth-longest tenured coach in the NBA prior to yesterday. The coach who has kept his job for longest is ...
There are some people who take pride in their appearance -- those people that always look perfectly put-together, never have a bad hair day, and are constantly taking irritatingly attractive pictures. Prominent examples include celebrities, politicians, and celebrity politicians. I of course am not ...
Pooja: Today I discovered my new favorite song: “Loud Places” by Jamie xx ft. Romy (2015). If this is common pop knowledge to you, please excuse my residence under a rock; however, today was the first day I realized that Jamie xx was formerly a part of the latter part of his name (which is why his ...
As I type this column, I am sitting in a cafe at the very summit of a 1,379 meter mountain just outside of Geneva, Switzerland. The sky is blue, and I can count only three individual clouds, two of which are wispy barely-there streaks of translucent white. The city below is sprawling and lovely, all ...
Nassau Coliseum might look on the verge of being condemned, but the New York Islanders are still alive -- and kicking.First it was a proposed rehabilitation project that never got off the ground, then the specter of a cross-country resettlement in Kansas City. For the past decade, Islanders fans have ...
Contemporary art has evolved far beyond the classical European construct. Rather than adopting linear narratives, art has become tangential. The process of creation is often emphasized more so than creation itself. Artistic trends have become more daring as society gradually expands its conception of ...
In our current international system, democracies are often favored. Such a governmental system carries weight, allows its citizens personal freedoms and is respected by other states. Not all democracies are created equal, however. A number of states masquerade as democracies, but are closer to authoritarian ...
As a Massachusetts native who has never lived more than 40 minutes outside of Boston, I have attended my fair share of Boston marathons. I fondly remember visiting my grandma's house in Natick, where my brother and I would load up on orange slices, plastic cups and H2O. Then we'd walk over ...
The people and ideas I’ve encountered at Tufts have made me much more aware of nuances. I’ve become more cognizant of the problems that come with generalizing and lumping together groups of people who, between themselves, possess incredibly broad ranges of experiences and backgrounds -- of lumping ...
When most people think about popular European modes of transport, a few vehicles come to mind, namely complicated railway systems, tall noisy buses and tiny electric cars that zip around the city with a hum, sometimes even driving on the sidewalks and scattering pedestrians on their way. Well, I'm ...
Psychology is about as old as my great-grandparents, experimenting with their emotions, upsetting their mothers and coming of age in the years preceding the turn of the 20th century. But whereas my great grandparents have long matured (and deceased), the field of psychology is neither mature nor deceased. One might accredit this to the insatiable drive to uncover the human mind, coupled with its inherent difficulty.
Last February, I temporarily took leave of my senses and signed up to run a half-marathon. What’s more, this flash of madness was accompanied by a stroke of vindictiveness, because I somehow persuaded two of my good friends to register to undergo this torture alongside me. The next two months were ...
Yesterday, the NBA regular season ended. Sixteen teams will begin the playoffs and the other 14 will enter the NBA Draft Lottery. Here is a look at the rookie class of the 2015-2016 season.The top two players of this year’s draft are widely thought to be two big men who competed in this year’s ...
Pine. That is the scent that has been dominating my life recently. I never actually knew it was pine until Rebecca pointed it out. I always assumed it was grass, or just the smell of sun. I have a complicated relationship with pine. Maybe it has something to do with allergies, or maybe it has something ...
In my experiences attending a predominantly white university in the Western world, environmentalism is often presented as a western concept. My professors frequently cite Henry David Thoreau as one of the first environmentalists, who lived in a secluded cabin in New England and wrote about nature. They ...
Not only do we seek to order our lives, but also we seek to order our interpretation of art. Living in an age of innovation, we seek immediate gratification through technology. We, the public, are currently enraptured with the marvels of modern technology and modernization. However, while we are products ...
In a technology-based global society, sources for free speech like Facebook and Twitter are indicators of the extent of societal restrictions in oppressive regimes. When social media sites move abroad, they have a new challenge to open platforms for expression and dissent while remaining able to legally ...
Back in October, if you had told sports fans to bet on which of Boston's professional winter sports teams would be in the playoffs come April, I'm pretty sure every single one of them would have picked the Bruins.Incredibly, that is not the case. The Bruins are out, the Celtics are in and we're ...
The benefits of technological expansion don’t have to be enumerated. Computers, phones and pingpong balls not only consume the lives of most college students (save the hardcore hippies), but also make them easier or even (considering how lost I would be without Facebook) possible. The convenience and efficiency of utilizing technology in our daily lives, however, may be dwarfed by the larger implications of the development of what some (Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, a professor and director at MIT Sloan, respectively) call the second machine age.
