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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: History intrudes on politics
If you're looking to offer some background to today's politics in China, there's a current trial that might offer some lessons. And, the BBC offers the story of a BBC employee who grew up in China...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Men's Track and Field: Knights Perform Well in Final...
With less than a week to go before the MIAC Indoor Championships, the Carleton College men’s track and field team seems to be peaking at the right time. A number of Knights established new personal...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Flexible Paper Sculptures Bend Reality + Warp Perceptions
[ By Delana in Art& Sculpture & Craft. ] At first glance, these sculptures look just like delicate porcelain or ceramic – but they hide a surprising secret. Beijing artist Li Hongbo‘s...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Women's Track and Field: 4x200 Record Broken as Knights...
Maybe they are just too young to know better, but a quartet of rookies combined to break the Carleton College women’s track and field record in the 4x200-meter relay during the Ole Open Qualifier, the...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Women's Tennis: Knights Blank Cardinals to Stay Perfect...
The Carleton College women’s tennis team remains undefeated in conference action after the Knights posted another 9-0 decision, this time over Saint Mary’s University on Friday night.
View ArticleAvery Morrow '10: Norman Mikine Dezaki and the culture of critique
The other day I got word of a storm brewing. An ALT English teacher in another prefecture, a nisei named Norman Mikine Dezaki, had made a video explaining that Japan is a “racist” nation, and...
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David Ocker '73: A Woman Is Not A Drum
Can you use the human body as a percussion instrument? Sure - hit it and it will make a little sound. The body is just a big sack of meat and fluid plus a couple air chambers for resonance. Anyone...
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: Entropy
drink every drink every drop 'til you dropthat's what I think or already thunk so clink, 'tilyou clunk and, hold high the ancient tablets inthe moonlight even if, after all, they are only...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Off The Deep End: 12 Abandoned Swimming Pools
[ By Steve in Abandoned Places& Architecture. ] An abandoned swimming pool is kind of like a fish out of water in that, well, both are out of water. As far as pools go, their dry and empty aspect...
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: Enrontropy
The state of reaching a level offunction that forms a quality of"statusfaction" where maintainingfunction over providing somethingworthwhile causes the demise of theparticular human or corporate entity.
View ArticleDan Schofer '00
2-23-2013Monmouth, Illinois. 67 minutes. >9 miles.Cold (24 degrees) but not windy. Relaxed and easy run. Felt OK.
View ArticleDan Schofer '00
2-24-2013Day Road + Green Ridge Loop. 88 minutes. 12 miles.Chilly (30s), sunny, and breezy. Another relaxed and easy run. Felt pretty good but took it easy. [Week: 83 miles]
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Erik Brooks: Sketches galore!
Although I haven't posted any in a while, I'm still hanging in there with a daily (or almost) sketch routine that seems to be doing the trick. So many story ideas spring from these generally...
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Taryn Dentinger '98: The Essence of Rhio
My Rhio was part of artist Tracie Thompson's holiday project. She wanted to do a study of a different horse each day the month of December. The set was to be called Christmas Ponies. Thanks to...
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Kevin Draper '10: Your Annotated Smartphone Bathroom Reader for Sunday,...
Getting into the dog days of the NBA season. We don’t blame you if you take a little nap, and wake up in 15 games or so.Meet the world’s top NBA gamblerScott Eden ESPNIf you’ve never heard the...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Spiral Out of Control: Guggenheim Museum Extension Idea
[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture& Public & Institutional. ] The Guggenheim Museum in New York may be the most iconic work of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright – as such, any addition to it...
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