Library News: Extended hours start Thursday
The library will be open extended hours for reading days and finals.
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Visualization Vids: Moving Data Make Marvelous Movies
[ By Delana in Art& Photography & Video. ] Raw data, as interesting as it may be to the scientists and analysts who use it, simply isn’t very interesting (or understandable) to the rest of us....
View ArticleCarleton News: Flory To Speak at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum will welcome Andrew Flory, assistant professor of music at Carleton College, as the next guest speaker in the American Musicological Society/Rock and Roll Hall...
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Benjamin Lenzner: a southern hemisphere solar eclipse...
yesterday mid-morning, the landscape turned an eerie dusk-ish auburn yellow as the northern tip of the north island of new zealand experienced an almost complete solar eclipse...i don't know if i had...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: 2 Pay-to-Sit Projects: Privately Monetizing Public Amenities
[ By WebUrbanist in Architecture& Cities & Urbanism. ] The privatization of public spaces is a contentious issue – suburban malls have turned many main streets into ghost towns. At the same...
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Kelly O'Brien '12: "How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and...
“How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite. Love, we say, God, we say, Rome and Michiko, we write, and the words get it all wrong. We say bread and it...
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Alicia Hutchison Steffann '94: Awesomest, Funniest Holiday Giveaway EVAH!
Growing up, there was a stark dichotomy between my brother and me, in adherence to Christmas self-discipline. Basically, he spent every waking minute trying to find out what was inside his gifts and I...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Revising Nigeria's constitution
Nigeria's constitution was promulgated by a military government. Ever since, there have been people arguing for a thorough re-write by an elected body. That task has been so politically daunting that...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: The new Standing Committee
The big shots paraded (in order) in Beijing. That means that the factional disputes about who will be on the new Standing Committee of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China are over. (There is...
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Dan Schofer '00
11-14-2012Short Adams Loop. 66 minutes. 9 miles.Chilly (36 degrees) and nice. Relaxed and easy run. Still felt stiff.
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Dan Schofer '00
11-14-2012Town Loop. 32 minutes. 4 miles.Extra slow and easy run with Marie.
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Dan Schofer '00
11-15-2012Abbe Hills Loop. 63 minutes. 9 miles.Chilly (35 degrees) and nice. Easy pace. Felt better this morning.
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Snowflake-Shaped Ski Dome Over River is World’s Largest
[ By Steph in Architecture& Cities & Urbanism. ] A six-armed, snowflake-shaped ski dome stretching across the river Gudenåen in Denmark would be the world’s largest if constructed, besting the...
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Jamie Foehl '99: Delighted and Dumbfounded
It's my one year anniversary at Duke.On Day One I wrote that I felt delighted and dumbfounded.It's Day Three Hundred and Sixty- Six (today) and I feel the same way.I think that's pretty cool.
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Benjamin Lenzner: newtown troopin'
this morning, i woke up and had to upload a presentation to that website dropbox. it took me some time to figure out how to upload the file to the specific folder it needed to be in. that process had...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Action Figure Booth: 3D Printer Creates Custom Figurines
[ By Steph in Art& Photography & Video. ] Let’s hope this concept catches on: a photo booth alternative that, instead of printing photos, creates an instant 3D action figure that looks just...
View ArticleCarleton Athletics: Men's Basketball: Sawatzke Scores 22 as Knights Soar Past...
Senior Tom Sawatzke paced the Knights with 22 points as the Carleton College men’s basketball team closed the first half on an 18-3 scoring run and held off visiting Elmhurst College for a 68-56 win in...
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Kevin Draper '10: Diss Guy Miss Guy, Vol. 16
Diss Guy(s): The Memphis Effin’ GrizzliesThe Memphis Grizzlies will no longer be known as the Memphis Grizzlies. Instead, they will be known as the Memphis Effin’ Grizzlies, because they’re nasty...
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