Dan Schofer '00
3-16-2013Treadmill + Indoor Track. 28 minutes. 4 miles.Easy run. Felt pretty good.
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3-17-2013Scobey + Adams Loop. 86 minutes. 12 miles.Chilly (27 degrees), sunny, and breezy. Eased into a decent pace. Overall felt pretty good. [Week: 84 miles]
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Going Downhill Fast: 12 Abandoned Ski Resorts
[ By Steve in Abandoned Places& Architecture. ] These dozen doomed ski resorts, like most seasonal winter businesses, can fall off the financial cliff by something as ironically simple as a lack...
View ArticleCarleton News: Photo Feature: Winter 2013 Musical Performances
The end of winter term brought a plethora of musical performances by several different student ensembles including the Carleton Orchestra, the Jazz Ensemble, the Chinese Music Ensemble, and more! Here...
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Happy Bodies: Becky
The Religion of Thinness: Satisfying the Spiritual Hungers Behind Women’s Obsession with Food and Weight describes a crisis of spirituality for American women. Author Michelle M. Lelwica asserts that...
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Kevin Draper '10: Your Annotated Smartphone Reader for Sunday, March 17th, 2013.
March Madness approaches and I hate college basketball. Makes me wanna hide for the next two weeks.Let’s Be Real, Brandon Knight Did It to HimselfRen Hsieh Dat WinningThere was just as much...
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Taryn Dentinger '98: In The Spirit: Multi-use Trail at its Best
Happy Leprechaun Day! Or whatever this silly green Irish holiday is - to me, it was Barn Day (a recurrent and requisite holiday if I am to stay sane.) Yes, the mercury read well below zero this...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: High Seas Venture: SF Tech Incubator in International Waters
[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture& Offices & Commercial. ] Imagine heading out from San Francisco to a bustling technology hub closer than Silicon Valley … yet an entire country away. Set only...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Putin's in trouble
According to Will Englund, writing in the Washington Post and republished in The Guardian, Putin's troubles extend beyond some street demonstrations and a punk band in a cathedral. His responses seem...
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: Now You See It Now You Don't
Blank page timelike looking into an empty mirroreven nothing hasit’s expressionand makes a bigimpression.Frankly blanklyis how we comeinto this world,senses blazingcluelessly… karmicengine kicks...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: China's political future
One of The Economist's editors explains why he (she?) thinks political change is coming to China. How do your students evaluate the arguments?Thank you, Beverley Clinch (who teaches at the American...
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Kevin Draper '10: Games of the Week: March 18-24, 2013.
The kiddies take the floor on Thursday, and pro ball will take a seat on the bench for a few weeks. Get the good stuff while you can.Monday: Miami Heat at Boston Celtics (5:00 PM PST on ESPN)Kevin...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Image Hacking: 40+ Glitch Art Photos, Paintings & Videos
[ By Steph in Art& Drawing & Digital. ] Surreal, dreamlike and often haunting, databending creates digital or analog image errors for artistic effect. An art form in which corrupted files are...
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3-18-2013Town + Country Lisbon. 60 minutes. 8 miles.Chilly (32 degrees), snowing, 2 inches of snow on the ground. Slow and easy pace. Felt OK.
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3-18-2013Lisbon. 30 minutes. 4 miles.Easy shakeout run. Out in 14:51, back in 15:00.
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Algaculture: Symbiosis Suit Produces Food from Breath
[ By Steph in Conceptual & Futuristic& Technology. ] Inspired by ‘plantimals’, photosynthetic organisms like lichen, sea slugs and salamanders that welcome algae into their bodies in order to...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Softball: Knights Begin 2013 With Two Losses in Florida
The Carleton College softball team opened its 2013 season with the first two of 14 scheduled spring break contests. The Knights had opportunities in both games but ended up on the short end twice,...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Men's Tennis: Men’s Tennis Team Follows Its Leaders to...
Read the Northfield News profile of the men's tennis team and its pattern of success based on the leadership of the upperclassmen.
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: China's multi-party system
Many textbooks don't even bother to mention the parties that aren't The Communist Party in China. Can your students figure out why? Non-Communist Parties Lend China an Air of Pluralism, Without the...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Iran's Internet censorship system
Thanks to John Unruh-Friesen, who teaches at Hopkins HS in Minnesota, for pointing this out. I had to go to the source and choose to enlarge the chart in order to read it, but it offers a good way to...
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