Carleton News: Salmon Awarded Fellowship from the Institute of Advanced Study
Noah Salomon, assistant professor of religion, has been awarded a Fellowship for Scholars for the 2013-2014 academic year from the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) School of Social Science in...
View ArticleCarleton News: U.S. News and World Report Recognize Carleton Students’ High...
The Feb. 26 edition of U.S. News and World Report recently announced its listing of colleges with the highest rate of study abroad participation. The survey drew data from 339 ranked schools and found...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Wealth leads to democracy?
A teacher in Aurora, IL caught this bit of a 60-Minutes interview with one of China's most successful billionaires. (The excerpt is 5 minutes long.)Developer Zhang Xin repeats the widely held idea that...
View ArticleAmy Elson '10: If you can...Teach!
“Great teachers will never be able to make up for bad parents, nor should they be expected to.” -Taylor Mali“Certainly teachers themselves can do a better job of letting the world know how hard their...
View ArticleCarleton News: Photo Feature: "Vagina Monologues" Performance
As a part of the V-Day global movement to end violence against women, Carleton presented "Vagina Monologues," a benefit performance to raise awareness and funds for the movement. The performance...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Harvest Energy from Power Lines to Recharge Your Batteries
[ By Steph in Gadgets & Geekery& Technology. ] The entire city is your power source with an innovative gadget by designer Dennis Siegel that harvests energy from electromagnetic fields and...
View ArticleDan Schofer '00
3-5-2013Indoor Track + Treadmill. 68 minutes. 10 miles.Ran 8 miles on the indoor track with splits: 7:14, 6:55, 6:52, 6:49, 6:45, 6:41, 6:33, 6:21 (54:13). Then ran 2 miles on the treadmill in 13:50....
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: More on party politics in Nigeria
The Economist covers the story about merging parties in Nigeria. The joke in the last paragraph suggests that some people don't think it will matter. Clubbing together: A newly united opposition...
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Alicia Hutchison Steffann '94: Guest Napper #150: Computer Crashed
The D.C. area is about to experience SNOWQUESTER, so we’re all battening down the hatches here. Wegmans is like Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, because nobody wants to go through a 24-hour storm without a...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Another sign of possible reform
The new Mexican president has joined with opposition parties to define political goals, he has arrested the powerful leader of the teachers union, and now, he's persuaded the PRI to change its...
View ArticleAvery Morrow '10: Thought for the day
A thought, after reading a description of Schuon’s “Maryamiyya”.There are two forms of “traditionalism” in the sense of Guénonian anti-modernism; the metaphysical reactionaries, who consider Guénon and...
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Rachel Teagle: Embarking on a Binge
Good Luck, And Don't Monk It Up.This month, as part of an effort to kick my own butt, I will be joining hundreds of fellow playwrights in a marketing binge where we strive to submit a play a day for...
View ArticleDan Schofer '00
3-5-2013Treadmill. 28 minutes. 4 miles.Easy run at 1.0% incline. Felt OK.
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Airborne Architecture: 12 Images of Flying French Houses
[ By WebUrbanist in Art& Photography & Video. ] Context – that is the key to taking the ordinary and making it amazing in this series of displaced homes soaring up from forgotten streets of...
View ArticleKevin Draper '10: The Best Harlem Shake Video Ever!!
Would’ve liked to have had a “real” post go up today, but alas, the Clark Kent job got in the way. Blast.Anyways, bravo Minnesota Timberwolves.
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: 3D Printed Car is Strong, Light and Close to Production
[ By Steph in Technology& Vehicles & Mods. ] The Urbee 2 is strong as steel, half the weight of a conventional vehicle, and can be manufactured in a warehouse full of plastic-spraying 3D...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Will deeds follow words?
Once again, the words from the Chinese political elite sound great. Do they or will they match reality? Xi Jinping stresses judicial independenceChinese leader Xi Jinping has called for efforts to...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: This might complicate things in Nigeria
Opposition politicians have created a more or less unified front to the ruling PDP party for the next presidential election. Now, a court ruling could cause some dissension within the PDP. But the...
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