Carleton Athletics: Women's Swimming and Diving: Knights Fall in Second Meet...
Senior Grace Cormier was first to the wall in two races and classmate Sophie Pilhofer figured in four other victories, yet the Carleton College women’s swimming and diving team could not overcome the...
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After besting Gustavus on Friday night, the Carleton College men’s swimming/diving team was back in the water on Saturday against another tough MIAC squad. Despite victories in nine events—including...
View ArticleDan Schofer '00
1-13-2013Treadmill. 64 minutes. 10 miles.Fartlek workout at 1.0% incline. After a 3 mile warm-up, did 4 x 1 mile accelerations around 6:00 pace with 0.25 miles easy (6:39 pace) in between. Mile splits:...
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: Cafe At The End Of Time (11.0)
I went into my apartment, poured a drink and sat at the desk.I took the revolver out of the drawer and felt its weight in my hands. There’s always a way out, but there’s also alwayskarma: even in...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Crossed Up: 9 Twisted Swastika-Shaped Buildings
[ By Steve in Architecture& Public & Institutional. ] Swastikas are ancient symbols of positivity tarnished by a negative recent past, which explains why modern architects have generally...
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Kevin Draper '10: Your Annotated Smartphone Bathroom Reader for Sunday,...
Line ‘em up. Lots of good stuff to read this week.Essay: Trolling Lakers Fans Spencer Tyrel (Spencer Lund) Shaky AnklesHere’s the thing: the Lakers don’t even suck this year. There are ten teams with...
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Erin McKittrick '01: Predicting Alaska’s Climate?
Globally, temperature has been rising as the CO2 from burning of fossil fuels insulates the earth. The most pronounced warming has occurred in the last several decades, especially in the arctic. But...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: The ABC of Architects: 26 Famous Buildings in 100 Seconds
[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture& Public & Institutional. ] An adult-fascinating and kid-friendly overview of 26 works by architectural greats from the last 100 years. Watch as this fantastic...
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Margaret Taylor: A biologist being stupid.
I just went and saw the movie Prometheus the other day, and all I have to say is, ouch. And not just because Noomi Rapace gives herself a C-section, either. The problem is that now that I work in a...
View ArticleDan Schofer '00
1-14-2013Short Abbe Hills + Gillette. 59 minutes. 8 miles.Cold (12 degrees), sunny, but not windy. Slow and easy pace. Felt a little tired but not too bad.
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Kevin Draper '10: Games of the Week: January 14-20, 2013.
When facing your second fiscal cliff in three weeks, all you can do is sit on your duff and watch incredibly athletic men do incredibly athletic things.Monday: Los Angeles Clippers at Memphis Grizzlies...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Why lobby the public?
While the nationalistic wing of the Conservative Party in the UK continues to argue that the United Kingdom is NOT part of Europe and only loses sovereignty and pride as part of the EU, one of the main...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Bad Rankings and a disagreement
More serious rankings are probably important for political scientists, but anthropologists and sociologists might appreciate these more than political scientists. But if people lose confidence in the...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Northern Ireland cleavages are not just historical
Recent events in Belfast seem to threaten a replay of the 1970s. Does the economy (then and now) have anything to do with the protests and violence? Belfast long way away from solving sectarian...
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: Cafe At The End Of Time (12.0)
Magically, it was yet another day. I stayed in bed as long as possible…’til the alcohol, the pot and the sleep woreoff….went down to the café. There were a few faces there I had met. The Buddhists in...
View ArticleCarleton News: Weitz Center Exhibit Highlights Multi-Media Artist John Peña's...
The work of Pittsburgh-based, multi-media artist John Peña's "Daily Geology" is featured in an exhibit in the Kaemmer Family Gallery of Perlman Teaching Museum, located in the Weitz Center for...
View ArticleCarleton News: Public Invited to Carleton Commemoration of the Life of Martin...
The Carleton College community will recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a candlelight service of remembrance and celebration, to be held in the Skinner Memorial Chapel on Sunday, Jan. 20. Guest...
View ArticleCarleton News: Carleton College Presents “All(most) Alone,” An Eclectic...
Carleton College will present “All(most) Alone,” an eclectic concert composed for the trombone, on Sunday, Jan. 20 at 3 p.m. Led by Ronald Rodman, professor of music and director of the Carleton...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: 7 Abandoned Wonders of Institutional Architecture
[ By Steph in Abandoned Places& Architecture. ] Churches, prisons, psychiatric hospitals and courthouses given over to the elements can sometimes taken on a mythic significance, given a haunting,...
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: Cafe At The End Of Time (12.5)
****This next minute or so, for surely that’s as much time as itcould possibly have been, seemed to defy the dimensionof time, so much went through my mind,...
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