May 21, 2013
What is the difference between emulation and veneration, and why does our grasp of that difference seem to slip whenever it’s convenient? It’s impossible to memorialize a hero anymore without some town crier gesticulating wildly at the hero’s unheroic attributes: “Martin Luther King Jr. had mistresses! Marilyn Monroe popped pills! Babe Ruth ate too many [...]
Too often, summer is seen as mere time off. True, the hours are better, and the pina coladas are flowing, but that doesn’t mean the brain needs to go sit on a shelf somewhere in the basement. Instead of coming home for summer after that last class and throwing your backpack into the fireplace to [...]
Continue reading …Let’s talk about food. A lot of you are probably thinking about eating healthier, getting ready for swimsuits and shorts, hopping back on the wagon the holidays and semester knocked over. . . . Well, worry no more. This is your free pass to eat badly and not care until the semester is over. And [...]
Continue reading …What if mermaids were real? More importantly, what if mermaids were being killed left and right by human-related causes, such as habitat destruction or disease? Wouldn’t that be something we would want to stop? Long ago, around the days of Columbus, sailors claimed to have seen mermaids in the waters around the new world. They [...]
Continue reading …Critique is a part of life. We all make and work on things — art, homework assignments, food, really cool basketball moves. We all have opinions on the things we make and the things other people make. And we all have a response when other people critique our stuff. As much as we’re invested in [...]
Continue reading …Many of us hit zone-out mode the moment someone mentions history and politics, so we’re going to start by throwing out some words our Twitter feed tells us are all the rage: nuclear zombies. Do we have your attention? Well, this column isn’t actually about toxic undead that glow radioactive-green while simultaneously mutating your cells [...]
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