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David Schraub: Younger Jews Care More About Israel
An interesting new survey finds that Jews thirty-five and younger feel more attachment to Israel than the next oldest age cohort (35-45), though still than those 45 and older. This runs counter to...
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Kevin Draper '10: Kevin Durant: Poisoning AAU Basketball Since Right Now
One of the few benefits of the offseason is that we have the time and ability to take a critical look at the state of the Association as a whole. A majority of our time during the regular and post...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: From Foodies to Brides: 12 Offbeat Designer Survival Kits
[ By Steph in Design & Products & Packaging. ] When you think ‘survival kit’, what comes to mind is probably some kind of camouflaged, ultra-practical collection of items that live up to the...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Updates to What You Need to Know
If you want brief updates on major changes in the two years since What You Need to Know was published, check out the Corrections and Updates page on book's web site. The main page of the web site is...
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Erik Brooks: Heroes of the Methow!
If you missed the fun at Arts Fest... ...here are some pint-sized coloring book pages for your downloading pleasure:
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Kevin Draper '10: Time Cadet Terry Porter, Reporting from the Future.
Hi everyone, you may remember me. My name is Terry Porter. I was a solid point guard in the National Basketball Association for 17 seasons. After I retired in 2002, I became a coach. I was the head...
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David Ocker '73: Why Is There No Maximum Wage?
A few days ago I ran across the following photo on Facebook. I immediately reposted it to my own account there with this comment:Even if it was a billion dollars a year, there ought to be a limit to...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Was Marx wrong again?
Marx thought that socialism was the inevitable end point of political and cultural evolution. There's a lot of doubt about that idea. But, the idea that politics and culture is evolving toward some...
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Alicia Hutchison Steffann '94: Guest Napper #104 – Beauty…no, Booty Sleep
I’ve been working really hard to get my garden producing actual, edible vegetables this year. You know, edible by us and not just for the critters who seem to end up devouring my three tomatoes and one...
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John Tischer '71: Front Row At The Apocalypso
I get to be in the audience, since, I’m not a player, though, probably still will be a casualty. Still, I’m ready with popcorn and internet eye on the world…and I’m just old enough and ripe enough to...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Childs-Walker Latest Knight Awarded NCAA Postgraduate...
Recent Carleton College graduate and the Knights’ only two-time first-team Academic All-American, Simone Childs-Walker ’12 received one of the NCAA’s top honors as she was awarded a NCAA Postgraduate...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Mexican legislature
I've found the charts from The Economist are among the most useful for teaching certain things. I've been clipping them out for students for a long time. The on-line charts are even better because...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Shwopping: Store Covered in 10,000 Hanging Garments
[ By Steph in Art & Installation & Sound. ] Covering the outside of a four-story building like tattered shingles, 10,000 colorful garments hang – and they represent just five minutes’ worth of...
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David Schraub: Likudnik Policies
Man, I hate when American politicians blindly parrot Likud Party policies. Take this proposal by Likud MK (and Knesset Speaker) Reuven Rivlin: "I would prefer for the Palestinians to be citizens of...
View ArticleCarleton News: Carleton Has Six Fulbright Fellowship Winners
Six Carleton students, including five members of the class of 2012, have been awarded highly competitive Fulbright Fellowships to pursue graduate work abroad. The recipients include: Katie Deeg ’12...
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John Tischer '71: Farewell To A Dying Animal
No longer sick with desire, nonetheless, still alive, an inconvenience, at best. Each day a different part of this machine behaves in a disturbing way…hints of Arthritis, gastric, palpitations,...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Sculptures Recreate Vocal Chords of Prehistoric Creatures
[ By Steph in Conceptual & Futuristic & Technology. ] It looks like a work of art – a sculpture meant to represent, perhaps, a cloud of smoke being blown from a pipe. But what you’re looking...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Some corruption is worse than other corruption
It may be that corruption is simply a pre-existing condition in Chinese politics. Guanxi means that wealth comes with influence and power. And if you cross the wrong people, you might be prosecuted....
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Margaret Taylor: Grizelda_3_small
We are go, I repeat, we are go for a bonus reward for the Ravensdaughter’s Tale campaign. I’ve talked to Kelsey King about the possibility of using the extra Kickstarter money to commission cover art...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Another woman in a high post in Nigeria
Maybe getting more women into positions of power and influence in Nigeria will improve governance. Senate confirms Nigeria's first female CJNMiriam MukhtarConfirming the appointment of Justice Miriam...
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