The chair you’re sitting on was once an exploding star. At least, the metal part was. We know that because most metals can’t be formed anywhere else. This includes the gold and silver in jewelry, the copper and rare earth metals in electronics and the iron in your chair’s steel fasteners. While it’s easy to…
The planet could warm more than 20 degrees Fahrenheit by 2100, sea levels might be nine inches higher and summer sea ice in the Arctic would disappear. The 2013 report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projects these results for a “worst-case” emissions scenario. Forecasts like this are frightening. Many environmental organizations believe they…
I had the chance to tie up some loose ends over winter break. I’m talking high school sweethearts—sorry—let me rephrase that, high school lays that just seemed to follow me around like pieces of toilet paper stuck to my shoe. I’ve been graduated for close to three years now and every so often I would…
The NCAA is run by a bunch of chimpanzees and I am semi-convinced of this. Your business is predicated upon student-athletes keeping their body healthy, and mind fresh. But God forbid you allocate some funds from the video game revenue to make sure they are fed three times a day, seven days a week. No,…
If you know me then you know I love my knitted Christmas sweaters, a hot cup of cocoa, the gentle falling of snow and wearing a Santa hat even when it couldn’t be more unnecessary. But those of you who really know me know that I am also a cynical liar who enjoys mocking people’s…
Alright men, last week there was a female Christmas wish list. So I thought it was only fair if this week I made one for you fellas. After doing some research I think I finally came up with the perfect wish list. Although it was like pulling teeth to get any males to tell me…
Outer space is generally—and rather accurately—viewed as being inhospitable to life. According to a Scientific American article from 2008, a human being can survive exposure to the vacuum of space for only about two minutes. The best-known space survivors, microorganisms called tardigrades, can survive a mere ten days. Clearly, life in its functional form doesn’t…
Finally we are done with Thanksgiving! Guess what that means? We can put up our Christmas decorations without being judged! That is enough to make anyone excited. This is the second year I haven’t been home for all of my Christmas break, and to be honest I have become a pro at decorating my own…
The Internet is for cat videos. Surprised Kitten has 64 million views and Best Cat Vines almost 30 million where as the 2014 State of the Union has 783 thousand views. Cat videos trump politics in number of views. If we have learned anything from the classics such as kitten vs. watermelon or Internet celebrities…
I am a strong believer that colleges are out to get us as students, solely for the fact that they have finals so close to Christmas. How do these scrooges expect us to watch the 25 days of Christmas when we have finals, speeches, and presentations galore! Well if you are anything like me, I…
One painful subject is the acquittal of Darren Wilson, the white police officer who shot the unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown. On Monday Pres. Obama asked for $263 million to improve relations between community members and the police. A key part of his proposal asks for $75 million for police body cameras according to nbcnews.com….
The first shots in the ongoing battle between pathogenic bacteria and medical science were fired in 1928, when Sir Alexander Flemming discovered penicillin. His landmark discovery kicked off a chemical arms race that continues to this day, with scientists striving to develop effective antibiotics faster than their disease-causing counterparts can evolve strategies to foil them….
