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.
Kawhi Leonard won't be crowned MVP this season.For the voters, offense always trumps defense. Although Leonard has been on a tear since early March, netting more than one point per possession in each of the five main play types and simultaneously uplifting his teammates, per Synergy Sports, ...
I'm afraid I don't have much to talk about this week other than midterms, which have been occupying my every waking moment since I got back from Geneva. This week, I have about a zillion things to do -- by the time you're reading this column, I will hopefully have turned in one of two massive ...
For citizens of our busy and increasingly urbanized 21st century world, the bucolic and rural imagery of Robert Frost’s poetry may sometimes seem dated and irrelevant to the issues of our “modern” era. Yet I would argue that the poetry of Frost remains timeless, just as relevant today as it was ...
Swiping into a dining hall for breakfast costs me $6.82. Eating breakfast at home costs me about 90¢, depending on how good a deal I get on my cereal and whether there’s a banana in it or not.But eating at home is way less fun. If you’ve ever paid attention to a cereal advertisement, you know ...
Aside from Paul Goldschmidt, A.J. Pollock, Mark Trumbo and maybe Jake Lamb, I dislike just about every member of the Diamondbacks' 25-man roster.However, this team has three excellent buy-low candidates sitting in Reno (its triple-A affiliate) or on a trainer’s table.By now you have probably ...
Dear hair aficionados,Beards. Neck beards. Nipples. Matching carpets and drapes? Nasty. Anyways, these hirsute locations on our bodies are sadly not the focus of this letter: We’re talking head hair. More importantly, combining some different types of quaffs that seem to be the most “trendy” within ...
I love books that are written so beautifully it's like they're straight out of a fantasy. Even mediocre story lines can be made enjoyable when the writing effortlessly flows from page to page. It is special to find books that engage readers with their characters through meticulously constructed ...
Sometimes Pooja’s CVS addiction rubs off on me. I find myself possessing an array of nail polishes and face washes that she might even get jealous of. Often, when I start my day, I wash my face with Neutrogena’s grapefruit face scrub. It contains microbeads, which I thought were pretty nifty. These ...
This past weekend, I casually flew out to Indiana to witness one of the greatest basketball games ever played, or the Final Four of what most people know as March Madness. "Most people," by the way, does not include the vast majority of my friends, who stared at me blankly when I tried to ...
For much of 2014, global protests against oppressive regimes took center stage in international dialogue. With people flocking to the streets in Venezuela, Ukraine, Hong Kong and the United States, no region is immune to unrest. Many of the same movements continue in 2015, proving the fight against ...
If the 8-0 Opening Day pasting of the Philadelphia Phillies was any indication, the Boston Red Sox are back. Back to being World Series contenders, as they were in 2013, instead of being a last-place team, as they were last year and in 2012.Boston looked terrific in Monday's season opener, blasting ...
In previous columns, I’ve talked about whether feminists should make it a priority to cater to the interests of men to promote their feminist worldviews, ultimately concluding that it isn’t feminists’ jobs to make men feel comfortable.I still feel this way, and I still believe that no one should ...
It’s easy to adopt the mindset that progress for the sake of the progress, never mind progress for the sake of Super Smash Bros. (1999-present) fanatics and squeegee enthusiasts, is an inherent and unquestionable good. This perspective is convenient and intuitive; ideology, the dogma of a Christian Scientist or the ravings of a polemic philosopher gone haywire, for instance, seems like all that could conceivably lead someone to reject triumphs like neuroprosthetics, supercomputers and my latest Candy Crush (2012) high score.
Consider a scenario: "Student-athlete" is recruited by a booster, who receives kickbacks from a major program at a major university. This "student-athlete" comes from a poor family, whose livelihood hangs in the balance, entirely dependent on a future lucrative professional ...
Mimicking the architecture of a Venetian Palazzo, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum exudes an air of opulence. Masked by an unassuming modern outer structure, the original foundation lies beyond the concrete and glass barrier.The transparent concourse linking the modern architecture with the retrofitted ...
With the 2015 regular season now upon us, I want to take one final look at a number of important happenings from Spring Training. Although the scores of the games do not matter, the extreme performances, call-ups/send downs and injuries do.Fantasy baseball owners know not to worry too much about Spring ...
Dear Prospies,I feel like this school has transformed into a deli. No, it is not because some newfound lunchmeat odor has recently consumed campus in a honey ham hurry. Rather, I’ve become the chicken breast (shaved of course) behind the glass counter alongside the other students at Tufts. Campus ...
