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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Rule of law with Chinese characteristics
Xi Jinping seems to be talking about rule of law but seems unable to just come out and say it. Or is this one of those translation problems? Or a problem of translating a western cultural concept into...
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Kevin Draper '10: Monday Media: Examining the TrueHoop Network on its Fourth...
Editor’s Note: This is the second, and final, post examining ESPN’s TrueHoop Network and its past, present and future. Part one can be found here. In his 2009 inaugural post on the TrueHoop Network—a...
View ArticleCarleton News: Raylor's Article Published in Explorations in Renaissance Culture
Professor of English Timothy Raylor has published an article, "Fertility, Mortality, and Anxiety in Waller’s ‘To my Young Lady Lucy Sidney’ and Marvell’s ‘The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of...
View ArticleDan Schofer '00
1-27-2013Town + Green Ridge Loop. 92 minutes. 11 miles.Chilly (32 degrees), breezy, freezing rain, and very icy! Terrible footing made this a ridiculously slow run. [Week: 72 miles]
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1-28-2013Town + Lisbon. 59 minutes. 8 miles.Mild (36 degrees), wet, and foggy. Slow and easy run. Felt a little sluggish.
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Futuristic Fashion: 35 Out-of-this-World Designer Looks
[ By Steph in Design& Products & Packaging. ] Looking straight out of a gritty sci-fi movie, these 35 futuristic and sometimes bizarre high-fashion looks envision a future of metallic...
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Erik Brooks: GRRR!
OK, so perhaps this is only really "excellent wolverine news" in a limited circle, but I had the good fortune to ride along on a wolverine capture in the North Cascades last week! It was truly a...
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Thomas Glessner Weaver '69: Another Page on my Genealogical Journey - Find a...
Having used ancestry.com to find the Glessner grave sites in California recently, I decided to see what the site "Find A Grave" would be like if I volunteered to take a photo of a request. Well, there...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Tagtool iPad App Lets You Paint Your City with Light
[ By Steph in Gadgets & Geekery& Technology. ] An iPad, a projector and an app called Tagtool are all you need to turn your city into a virtual canvas for your own custom light art and...
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Taryn Dentinger '98: We Did It!
It's officially official - Rhio and I finally earned a UMECRA jacket. We were 5th place in our region for the 2012 endurance season, so earned a Top 10 jacket. These babies are coveted by one and all...
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1-29-2013Town + Lisbon. 59 minutes. 9 miles.Warm (53 degrees) and very wet. Warm-up 2 miles, then fartlek alternating 3 minutes steady with 2 minutes quick. Felt a little stiff but not too bad.
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Keeping track of violence in Nigeria
The Council on Foreign Relations has posted a series of maps and charts illustrating violence in Nigeria. There's a map showing where and when violent deaths have occurred. And there are charts about...
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Kevin Draper '10: No Country For Boring Teams: The Diss’ Biweekly League Pass...
Editor’s Note: Welcome back to No Country For Boring Teams, The Diss’ look at the most aesthetically pleasing teams in the league. They aren’t necessarily the best teams (though there is some...
View ArticleCarleton News: Biology Professor Singer Accepts NSF Leadership Role
Susan Singer, the Laurence McKinley Gould Professor of the Natural Sciences at Carleton College, will take a leave of absence from the College to serve as the director of the National Science...
View ArticleCarleton News: Carleton College’s Callister Earns Churchill Scholarship
Thomas Callister ’13 has been named one of the 14 Churchill Scholarship winners nationwide. The award gives him a full scholarship to earn his master of philosophy degree at the Institute of Astronomy...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Men's Track and Field: Noah Laack-Veeder Selected for...
Carleton sophomore runner Noah Laack-Veeder made quite an impression with his performance Saturday at the Minnesota State Open. Competing against a largely NCAA Division II field, Laack-Veeder was...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Women's Track and Field: Amelia Campbell Wins First MIAC...
Judging by the results, it would be impossible to guess that Carleton's Amelia Campbell's heptathlon score at Friday's Minnesota State Open was her first try at the event in her track and field career....
View ArticleNat Case '88: Thank you, Diana Wynne Jones
Once upon a time, I was given a book. It was called The Ogre Downstairs, and it was about ordinary kids with the sort of problem a ordinary author would have given an earnest, well-intentioned plot to:...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Rein-Vend: 7 Converted, New & Reverse Vending Machines
[ By WebUrbanist in Technology& Vintage & Retro. ] Things have come a long way since the world’s first vending machine – a 2000-year-old device that dispensed holy water when a coin was...
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