Carleton News: Political Strategists and Co-Authors Bob Beckel and Cal Thomas...
Democratic strategist Bob Beckel and conservative columnist Cal Thomas, two political commentators with opposing ideological viewpoints, will jointly deliver Carleton College’s convocation address on...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Kids’ Rooms Rule: 32 Creative & Fun Bedrooms for Children
[ By Steph in Design& Furniture & Decor. ] When the rest of the house is carefully furnished and decorated to be both practical and a visual representation of the adult residents’ style, why...
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: Missing Frames
A sense of being is created by theillusion of the continuity of senseperceptions, just as our minds are fooled into feeling that a movie isreally happening.…but there are missing frames inour...
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Kevin Draper '10: Monday Media: The Real Problem with NBA Awards Voting is...
Finally.Finally a recognition of the absurdity of NBA awards voting is spreading. Yesterday the NBA announced what everybody already knew would happen: LeBron James won his second straight MVP award....
View ArticleCarleton News: Something Wicked This Way Comes: Carleton Presents...
Macbeth—considered one of Shakespeare's shortest, darkest, most psychological, and most popular tragedies—will be presented nightly at 7:30 p.m. on May 9, 10, and 11 in the Weitz Center for Creativity...
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Alison Sommer '05: Dead or alive, raccoons suck
We get a lot of wildlife in our yard (see this post for more details). Most of it is awesome to see, and now that we have a dog it provides great entertainment as he "protects" us all from the...
View ArticleCarleton News: Carleton College Hosts “5K for Hope;” Proceeds Benefit The...
Carleton College will host “5K for Hope,” a fun run/walk on Saturday, May 11 through the Carleton Cowling Arboretum with proceeds to benefit The Hope Center, whose mission is to create zero tolerance...
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Erik Brooks: An elephant this afternoon...
Drawing elephants and other things this afternoon. Including this one. More on the way...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Abandoned Asylums in Focus: Photos by Jeremy Harris
[ By Steph in Abandoned Places& Architecture. ] It’s not just the morbid and macabre horror movie ambiance of abandoned psychiatric facilities that makes them so haunting and fascinating; it’s the...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Women's Golf: Moede Denied Individual NCAA Bid
One of the best seasons in Carleton history ended one step short of the goal, as the NCAA Championships field was announced without including any Knights. Sophomore Kelsey Moede (Lake Oswego, Ore.) was...
View ArticleNaomi Dietzel Hershiser '99: Growing Pains
Birds mature so quickly, relative to humans, that it's as if our entire youth is encapsulated in one short season. I watched a juvenile robin the other day, and it seemed to have the clumsiness of...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: These are not the crimes you are looking for
The Russian president is adamant: no one is prosecuted for their political views. Putin denies dissent crackdown as trials test legal system President PutinWhile one Russian court imposed heavy fines...
View ArticleCarleton News: Liben-Nowell Named Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of...
David Liben-Nowell, associate professor of computer science, has been named a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and was invited to speak at the Fifth Indo-American Frontiers of Science...
View ArticleCarleton News: Kelly to Present at the University of Oregon School of Music...
Steve Kelly, Dye Family Professor of Music, Emeritus, is set to give a present “Lipstick Traces” at the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance. The lecture will discuss the pen name of one of...
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Kevin Draper '10: Series of the Week: New York Knicks (2) versus Indiana...
There seems to be a tendency among humans to fetishize bygone eras in an attempt to elevate them over other epochs, namely, the one we are currently living in. Colloquially expressed in the...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Odd-Wheel Wonders: 11 Novel Vehicles with 1 or 3 Wheels
[ By Delana in Technology& Vehicles & Mods. ] We’ve gotten accustomed to the idea of vehicles having two or four wheels. However, not all vehicle designers are so restrained in their ideas....
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Alison Sommer '05: How much for a steamy hour of hotel time?
When you think of hotels that charge by the hour, what do you think of? What do you picture? Being a big fan of Law and Order, my mind immediately jumps to something out of an episode of SVU. A...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Women's Tennis: Bridget Doyle Earns MIAC...
The Carleton women's tennis team had an outstanding weekend, claiming their second-straight MIAC Women's Tennis Playoff championship and an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. Senior Bridget Doyle...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Vertical Horizon: Urban Photographs Turn City Upside Down
[ By WebUrbanist in Art& Photography & Video. ] Hong Kong has to be one of the most-photographed cities on Earth, but these shots present a rarely-seen perspective by documentarians or...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Baseball: Gregory Shuts Down Johnnies, Bats Awaken to...
Thaddaeus Gregory went the distance for the victory in game two as the Carleton College baseball team earned a split at Saint John’s University. The Knights’ pitching staff was roughed up in a 16-3...
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