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Ken Wedding's Reading Blog: Library favorites
The whole lists are 25 items long. I've only reprinted a few. If you want to see the complete lists, "check out" the Hennepin County Library site.Psst... I haven't read any of them, not even the Fancy...
View ArticleCarleton News: An Angry Woman: Saudi Activist Manar al-Sharif Shares Her...
Manar al-Sharif was angry. A 30-year-old Saudi wife, mother and working professional, she faced harassment, sometimes violent, when walking down the street unaccompanied. “You deserve whatever happens...
View ArticleCarleton News: Michael D. Cohen '02 to present "How Did The Civil War Affect...
Michael D. Cohen, Carleton Class of 2002, will visit on Wednesday, Feb. 6 at 4:30 p.m. in the Gould Library Athenaeum to present a talk entitled "How Did The Civil War Affect Colleges?" Cohen's...
View ArticleKen Wedding's CompGov Blog: Slavophiles win again
Thanks to Rebecca Small for pointing out this article. The Slavophiles seem to be winning this political argument. (See also: Slavophiles and Zapadniki )Russian anti-gay bill sets off furorWhile many...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Google Maps-Inspired Birdhouse Guides Birds Home
[ By Steph in Design& Products & Packaging. ] This little orange icon tells us just where we need to go on Google Maps – and now it shows birds where home is, too. Designer Shuchun Hsiao has...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Simple money laundering
Convert cash to prepaid cash cards. Spend the money during the campaign. Who knows where the money came from or what it was used for? Simple, no? Mexico: ruling party used $5.2 million cash...
View ArticleNat Case '88: One Warm Line (Aeon Magazine)
A new essay for Aeon Magazine follows some of the threads begun on this blog.I don’t think very far into the future. As far as I can tell, no destiny is calling my name from a distant mountain top. But...
View ArticleLibrary News: What's new? See new books and DVDs in Bridge.
We're trying out a new way to make it easier to see what's new in Bridge, the joint catalog of the Carleton and St. Olaf Libraries. You can view lists of new books, grouped by subject areas and sorted...
View ArticleDan Schofer '00
2-1-2013Treadmill + Indoor Track. 65 minutes. 10 miles.Warm-up 4 miles on the treadmill at 1.0% incline around 27:30. Then light 4 mile tempo run on the track with splits: 5:51, 5:50, 5:49, 5:47 for...
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: Cafe At The End Of Time 19.0
The next two weeks were a blur in his mind. He gotsick with the flue. He hadn’t been sick in a decade.He did the “Stay Drunk” cure…one couldn’t tell ifit was working, but then, one didn’t care.He...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Instant Abandonment: Faux Desert City Built to be Bombed
[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture& Cities & Urbanism. ] Normally, urban design is done with death and destruction in mind – but prevention, rather than facilitation, is the focus. This unique...
View ArticleCarleton News: Gao Hong Awarded Prestigious Recording Grant
Gao Hong, Lecturer in Chinese Musical Instruments, recently received the 2013 Sorel Medallion in Recording grant from the Elizabeth & Michel Sorel Charitable Organization, Inc. to support her...
View ArticleCarleton News: Savina, Balaam, and Hardy participate in ACM Seminar
Mary Savina, Charles L. Denison Professor of Geology, Peter Balaam, Associate Professor of English, and Clara Hardy, Professor of Classical Languages, have been selected to participate with colleagues...
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Kevin Draper '10: Diss Guy, Miss Guy Vol. 25
Diss Guy: Kenneth FariedWas anybody aware that Kenneth Faried was raised by two mothers, or did that come out of the blue for everybody else like it did for me? During a week in which a bit player used...
View ArticleCarleton News: Cherif Keita's Film Highlights Lifetime Achievements of South...
Professor of French Chérif Keita had his film "Oberlin-Inanda: The Life and Times of John L. Dube" shown in French on Mali's national television TM2 on Thursday, January 10. The documentary weaves...
View ArticleCarleton News: Former President Rob Oden Appointed to Chair of...
Rob Oden has been named Chair of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Board of Trustees. Oden has served as a member of the board since January 2011 and will succeed Wayne Granquist as chair. Dartmouth-Hitchcock is...
View ArticleCarleton News: Pezalla-Granlund Receives Grant for Printmaking
Curator of Library Art and Exhibitions Margaret Pezalla-Granlund was awarded an artist's initiative grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. The grant will allow her to expand her printmaking skills,...
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