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Kevin Draper '10: NBA CamJamz: A Guest Post.
Editor’s Note:Cammie Dodson is an occasional contributor to The Diss. She is also the editor’s weekday girlfriend. She lives in Seattle and is none too happy about it.***I think Jacob has said that...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Future Architecture: 7 Surreal Award-Winning Skyscrapers
[ By WebUrbanist in Conceptual & Futuristic& Technology. ] The first skyscrapers were impossible drawings at the times they were imagined, yet today glass towers that scale to the skies are...
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Alison Sommer '05: HAGS and other high school yearbook clichés.
I went to a pretty stereotypical big midwestern public high school, with all of the cliché high school trappings: wild homecoming football games, prom king and queen, band geeks, study hall, and...
View ArticleCarleton News: Professor Gregory Smith to appear at the Northfield Public...
The Northfield Public Library is pleased to host a reading by local author and Carleton College professor of English Gregory Blake Smith, as part of the Minnesota Book Awards Author tour, presented by...
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David Ocker '73: 1491
I was fascinated recently by a radio interview with author Charles C. Mann who talked about his book 1493. It covers the social and ecological effects of the arrival of Europeans in the Western...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Recovering Literature: Bold Classic Book Cover Redesigns
[ By WebUrbanist in Design& Products & Packaging. ] It takes a powerful book to survive decades or even centuries and stay prominently in the public eye. This pair of classics are a rarity in...
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Taryn Dentinger '98: Winter Rebooted
Tuesday, April 9, 2013. We really should be in the mid-40s to low-50s with a vanishing snow base (the last few years - early warm springs have spoiled us!), but instead we're in the mid-30s with snow...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Factional politics in Iran
In some countries, political competition is spread across a wide spectrum. In Iran the scope of political competition seems to have shrunk to tiny proportions (especially since 2009).When the...
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Kevin Draper '10: No Country For Boring Teams: The Diss’ Biweekly League Pass...
1. Washington Wizards (Last Week: 3) Listen up underwhelming members of the 2010 draft class like Derrick Favors & DeMarcus Cousins: THAT’S how you ensure you get paid big dollars this offseason....
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Alison Sommer '05: I is for Injury - EPIC Injury.
If you are squeamish about talk of medical procedures/injuries/blood then you might want to skip this post. I talk about slicing my leg open with a hockey skate. You've been warned.Give blood, play...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Performance Architecture: 10 Dramatic Opera Sets & Stages
[ By Steph in Architecture& Public & Institutional. ] Magnificent, surreal stages rise from the depths of Austria’s Lake Constance, rotating, glowing, rising and falling in time with the plots...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Women's Golf: Snow, Cold Cancels St. Thomas Invite
Carleton's first scheduled event after its Hawaii trip, the St. Thomas Invitational, has been canceled due to the forecast for cold weather and a major spring snowstorm for much of Minnesota. The...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Sleeping Around: Pop-Up Hotel in a Shipping Container
[ By Steph in Boutique & Art Hotels& Global. ] Do you want to spend a night on a river bank, a cliff, a meadow or a busy urban street? The ‘Sleeping Around’ pop-up hotel concept can go...
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Amy Csizmar Dalal: acdalal
At 2am Saturday morning, I turned off my computer. My day had started at 5:15am Friday morning, and I’d pretty much been going nonstop since then: teaching, meetings, a crazy workday; then home to...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Softball: Davis K’s 15, but Blazer Bats Just Too Hot for...
Keelin Davis fanned 15 batters, the highest strikeout total by a Knight in eight seasons, but the Carleton College softball team dropped a 5-4, eight-inning affair in game one its doubleheader versus...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Catching up
Mexico's economy is globalized. One bit of infrastructure needs some major work. Can the government lead the way? Rachel Levin, reporting for al Jazeera in this 2-minute video offers one perspective....
View ArticleCarleton News: Strand Presents Research Conducted with Carleton Students
Julia Strand, visiting assistant professor of psychology, recently gave an invited talk to the University of California, Berkeley linguistics department colloquium, titled "Recognizing words by sight...
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Alison Sommer '05: Not really Jewish, but Jew-ish
I married a Jew. We are raising our kids Jewish. I am not Jewish, but sometimes I do feel... I don't know... Jew-ish? Before I go on, let me answer all the questions my non-Jew friends and family...
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