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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Livable Billboard Offers Artists a Temporary Home
[ By Steph in Architecture& Houses & Residential. ] Artists are taking over billboards all over the world, subverting their messages or dedicating them to fun and meaningful art installations...
View ArticlePatrick Ganey: Brown rice and weeds
This is the place to begin. A long season of change tempered by the steady influence of brown rice and weeds, oat groats, and sourdough bread. I left Minnesota with my family and moved to Middlebury,...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Any way to confirm this?
Xinhua, the Chinese government news bureau, reports on progress in narrowing the rural-urban income gap. Are the figures reliable? Rural residents' incomes grow faster than urbanites: green bookIncomes...
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Erin McKittrick '01: Pleistocene Days
Wind-driven cold snow coats a tide flat on Kachemak Bay. We wore everything. Every layer of clothing for every member of the family, a smear of frozen sunblock on noses and cheeks against the bright...
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Kevin Draper '10: My Escape
Most tragedies play out the same in the sporting world. A couple of games are cancelled or postponed. There is a moment of silence before the next set of games, followed by endless proclamations about...
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Alison Sommer '05: Some days I want to move to Neutopia
There's an episode of Fururama called "Neutopia" in which the Planet Express team takes a group of commercial airline passengers and they all crash-land on a planet, where they are forced to compete...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Static Flip Books: 360-Degree Scenes in Panoramic Pages
[ By WebUrbanist in Art& Drawing & Digital. ] Like a flip book, there is no text, and each page of these volumes contains a slightly different scene. Except instead of paging through them...
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Carleton News: Smogard '13 Earns Carnegie Junior Fellowship
Danielle Smogard '13 (Southlake, Texas) has earned a prestigious Carnegie Endowment junior fellowship, and will be working next year on peace issues related to South Asia with a senior associate at the...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Colby Seyferth Picks Up MIAC Weekly Award
The winter-like temperatures certainly didn't impact Carleton's Colby Seyferth (Banks, Ore.) at Saturday's Norse Relays hosted by Luther (Iowa) College. The Knights' sophomore displayed his talent and...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Men's Track and Field: Colby Seyferth Picks Up MIAC...
The winter-like temperatures certainly didn't impact Carleton's Colby Seyferth (Banks, Ore.) at Saturday's Norse Relays hosted by Luther (Iowa) College. The Knights' sophomore displayed his talent and...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Women's Track and Field: Avery Johnson Earns MIAC Weekly...
Carleton College's Avery Johnson (Portland, Ore./Oregon Episcopal) was both outstanding and clutch in her first collegiate javelin victory Saturday at the Norse Relays hosted by Luther (Iowa) College....
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Warped Reality: Media Mis-Coverage of Invisibility Cloak
[ By WebUrbanist in Gadgets & Geekery& Technology. ] This author would like nothing more than to tell you that the above images are of a real-life working prototype of the most amazing...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Softball: Knights Put Scare Into No. 16 St. Thomas Before...
The Carleton College softball team gave No. 16 University of St. Thomas all it could handle in the opener, with the Tommies eventually rallying for a 3-2 walkoff victory. The momentum carried over to...
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Kelly O'Brien '12: howtotalktogirlsatparties: 5/26/2013.
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: More on grass-roots law enforcement
Back in February, vigilantes in rural Mexico made news by turning suspected criminals over to the government. They are in the news again because in at least one place, they've turned to politics. Worry...
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