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Kevin Draper '10: Wild Guesses and Outlandish Speculation: The Last...
The Diss-cussants are here to collectively eat the giant Dagwood sandwich of the NBA season: the Finals. Â Well, all of them except the vegetarians in the group, who were supplied with veggie burgers...
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Erik Brooks: Happy Graduation Week from Harts Pass!
Happy Graduation Week Class of 2013! The newspaper/print edition did not run my footnote regarding Voltaire's Candide. If you thought it was a little odd to have an asterisk leading you nowhere, now...
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Elizabeth Tamny '88: great iPhones news photos in history
Phil Rosenthal started this hashtag - #iphonenewspics - yesterday. Silly. Extremely satisfying. These are some of my contributions so far. Hard to stop.Iwo Jima!situation room...Bin Ladena Great Day in...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Ground, Up! Curved Green Sky Gardens Wrap Tower Hotel
[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture& Offices & Commercial. ] The best of both worlds: guests at this hotel get to enjoy skyscraper-high views and still experience layers of intensive greenery on...
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: The War Of Art
Declaration Of ArtI declare a state of art exists betweenall artists and their sympathizers andthe Bluetaneers, (to steal from YellowSubmarine) yes, those that would stealbeauty and replace it with a...
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Benjamin Lenzner: b-sides the sea, low tides & hi hats
this week's across 110th street & a first all over india.Pune, Maharashtra. Late April 2013.love and health to all...
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Rachel Teagle: Opening Night!?!
It's almost heeeeerrree!via What Should We Call Playwrights, which totally gets me.Only a few hours until the Fringin' really gets going. Wish me some broken legs!I may not be super active on the...
View ArticleSusan Letcher '00: Back in the jungle
The storm has moved on, leaving the air thick with humidity and the trees dripping. A few parrots are squabbling over fruit in the high branches. About an hour ago the dark clouds came rumbling down...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Tag Clouds: Geek Street Artist Remakes Messy Graffiti
[ By WebUrbanist in Art& Street Art & Graffiti. ] To the uninitiated, used to seeing it but not to reading it, graffiti scrawl can seem illegible. In a play on both tagging and technology,...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: A fight for the soul of Chinese Communist Party
Constitutionalism as a revolutionary doctrine? Drawing the battle linesIN DECEMBER China’s new Communist Party chief, Xi Jinping, said something that encouraged advocates of political reform. No...
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Alison Sommer '05: Driving test flunky
I hit a turning point in my life when I got my driver's license. I turned left, I turned right, I even did a few donuts. har har. But really, learning to drive and gaining the independence that went...
View ArticleDan Schofer '00
6-7-2013Country Lisbon. 40 minutes. 6 miles.Mild and nice. Steady pace. Legs still tight but overall felt pretty good.
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Kevin Draper '10: Your Favorite Form of Analysis Is Probably a Little Racist....
Editor’s Note:This is a response to Kevin’s piece on racism in basketball writing from last week (linked below).***If you haven’t yet read The Diss’ co-editor Kevin Draper’s piece “Your Favorite...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Transparency but no records
The halls of Westminster are not swarming with lobbyists. Persuasion gets done in other ways. For instance, the PM, professed fan of greater transparency, is going to a private meeting with many of the...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Details on Iranian elections
Giving credit where credit is due. The article about the Iranian candidates' unhappiness with the debate format was suggested by one of Rebecca Small's students, whose last day of high school classes...
View ArticleChet Haase: Things I Believe: Thoughts for Friday
It's better to light a candle than curse the DAMMIT! HOT WAX!Talk is cheap, but listening's expensive.You owe me big.What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.Except for the wreck that puts you in a...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Sound in Sand: Complex Visualizations of Audio Frequencies
[ By Steph in Art& Installation & Sound. ] Grains of sand arrange themselves into complex geometric patterns according to audio frequencies in these fascinating resonance experiments by...
View ArticleRachel Teagle: A Snippet of Delicious Animals
Atlanta Fringe Festival marketing guru Chris Alonzo snuck in and snapped this quick video of last night's Queen of Delicious Animals. This is an excerpt from the Avian Bowl story, and unfortunately, it...
View ArticleCarleton News: Weitz '70 Profiled by Wall Street Journal
Wally Weitz '70, former Board of Trustees chair, is profiled by the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) on his acumen as a stock picker and the challenges associated with running such a firm in...
View ArticleCarleton News: Manizada Interviewed By Wall Street Journal on Merits of...
Asim Manizada '13 (Baku, Azerbaijan) weighed in on the merits of a liberal arts degree for the Wall Street Journal's "Real Time Economics" blog. The post talked to WSJ reporters who had graduated from...
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