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Chet Haase: Butter Up!
It's the time of year for holiday treats; here are some simple recipes.Enjoy!
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: High & Dry: 8 Amazing Abandoned Aquariums
[ By Steve in Abandoned Places& Architecture. ] Recreating the sea on land is no easy task, especially when a stable and viable marine ecosystem is the crux of the plan. When things go wrong,...
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Micah Koller '12: PA180199 by micahhhhhhh
PA180199, a photo by micahhhhhhh on Flickr.Now that I’m in Georgetown for the WorldTeach midservice meeting, I have a halfway decent connection. Managed to upload a few pics, though it still takes...
View ArticleAvery Morrow '10: The Conversation
For the record, I don’t really have an opinion about gun control. But this article about the respectful silence and self-reflection in the pro-gun lobby following the recent school shooting contains a...
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Kevin Draper '10: Your Annotated Smartphone Bathroom Reader for Sunday,...
As you sit on the toilet, wondering how the 49ers shat the bed on a 31-3 lead, take your mind off the pain with a coupla good ole basketball stories.Warriors and Kings: A Tale of Two Rebuilds...
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Heading into uncharted waters
The new Mexican president may be showing the first signs of really new directions. It marks an assault on one of the products of the corporatist politics of the traditional PRI. And the proposal might...
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Kevin Draper '10: Games of the Week: December 17-23, 2012.
Ricky Rubio’s back. We can barely contain ourselves.Monday: San Antonio Spurs at Oklahoma City Thunder (5:00 PM PST on League Pass)Yeah, all the hype will be focused on Jeremy Lin’s return to Madison...
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Kevin Draper '10: The Lakers Have No Clothes
This post is an adapted fairy tale By Hans Andrew Snyderrson (2012-2142) that was uncovered on a recent trip by time travel cadet Terry Porter, reporting from the future. any, many years ago lived a...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: 30 Days of Design: 15 Off-the-Wall Calendars
[ By Steph in Design& Graphics & Branding. ] Grids of square-shaped dates aren’t the only way to keep track of the passing year. These 15 design-centric wall and desk calendars allow you to...
View ArticleCarleton News: Carleton Presents Rolling Stone Journalist Anthony DeCurtis on...
Carleton will kick-off a new year of convocations with a presentation by Rolling Stone journalist Anthony DeCurtis entitled, “The Music of Social Protest.” DeCurtis, a noted American music journalist...
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: Happy Nuclyear!
I lost the preceding poembecause of drain bamageand nuclear holochaostrophy,extending McKenna’s wordto something he couldn’t seebecause he was right aboutnovelty, but, as he said in hislast interview,...
View ArticleJohn Tischer '71: After Effect
Attic room on Elgin Street in Newton, Mass…one room… white bare walls…years ago…searching now for the meaning of that in my casa in Tepoztlan, forty years and more later…end, not beginning of the...
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Kurt Kohlstedt '02: Dystopian Dumpster Living: Trash Bins Turned Tiny Houses
[ By Steph in Architecture& Cities & Urbanism. ] Giant receptacles for trash have been transformed into the most unexpected things – swimming pools, bars, giant pinhole cameras, and now tiny...
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Thomas Glessner Weaver '69: Coastal Visit ´˜ California - Cemetery Surprise...
Here are Kevin and Jeff, two guys from San Jose I met in South Dakota at a traditional ceremony in August of this year. Not knowing what was in store for me, Kevin suggested a spontaneous trip to...
View ArticleKevin Draper '10: Monday Media: Self-Tooting Horns
Hey, remember the Wages of Wins videocast we linked to awhile back? Well it’s a regular feature, and last night we were the guest. Or, more accurately Kevin Draper sure. Sure, it may be a nepotistic...
View ArticleCheryl Klein: A Brief Ramble on Character and Self Consistency
Lord, I love Zadie Smith's essays, like this wonderful piece in last week's New Yorker on Joni Mitchell, changing artistic tastes, changing selves, and artistic continuity:Who could have understood...
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Arjendu Pattanayak: meblen
I’m staring down the start of another term with a new class prep. I’m excited about the course I’ll be teaching, a course on materials science, energy, and the environment that counts both for the...
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Taryn Dentinger '98: Ice, All Ice!
You know, I live here for a reason - it is NOT SUPPOSED TO RAIN IN DECEMBER!!! We had a promising start to the winter season, with several pleasant snows, and the city even began grooming the...
View ArticleNaomi Dietzel Hershiser '99: ...Falling on my Head
It is snowing....Doesn't mean any will stick, but still... Maybe we will have a winter after all!
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Ken Wedding's CompGov Blog: Putin's "state of the nation" speech
The president once again makes nationalism his theme. This seems to be a continuation of his attempts to win more support from a less-than-enthusiastic electorate. Putin warns of foreign meddling in...
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