By Joshua Kim. Let me guess. You love trains. Subways, long distance passenger trains, freight rail. Those driverless people movers at the airport (and at West Virginia University). It doesn’t matter. To you, trains are just cool. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. For the three people on the planet who care about Game of Thrones, but who have not yet watched Sunday’s season 5 finale, I’ll attempt to refrain from spoiling anything. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. There was a time in the mid 1990s that if you bought a PC that it was delivered in a box with cow markings. Gateway 2000 was the hot build-to-order direct sales PC maker in the 1990s. This was after everyone stopped buying IBM PC’s, before Dell became hot, and a few years before everyone decided that what they really wanted was a MacBook Air. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. My oldest daughter graduated from high school last week. Her MacBook if 4 years old, and is on its last legs. She needs a laptop to bring to college.
What laptop would you recommend for a new college student?
Here are some of her requirements. Read more...
By Joshua Kim. "Seriously bad ideas, I’d argue, have a life of their own. And they rule our world.”
Paul Krugman, from Seriously Bad Ideas
“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist.” Read more...
By Laura Tropp. I saw the Pixar movie Inside Out over the weekend. It is the perfect film for the Age of Helicopter Parents. The premise, for those who haven’t been exposed to the media hype over the last week, is that we see animated the internal emotions of an 11-year-old girl. The film, though, taps in to all the fears of modern parenting. Read more...
By Susan O'Doherty. I was 15 when the movie "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?" was released. It was a big deal. Loving v Virginia, the landmark Supreme Court case that struck down anti-miscegenation laws, had been decided just months earlier. Read more...
By Susan O'Doherty. A few weeks ago, a close family member was driving to work (or so he thought, because he thought it was Monday when it was actually Sunday) when he realized he was disoriented. He managed to drive himself to the hospital, where tests revealed a severe arterial blockage that would, he was assured, have resulted in a massive heart attack if he hadn't sought attention when he did. Read more...
By Rosemarie Emanuele. When participating in a seminar presented by the National Endowment for the Humanities on the Philosophy of Math (an area of study that I admit, was new to me), one of my fellow participants presented the question of “what is the middle number?” After some discussion, it was decided that the middle number was zero, as any negative number was offset exactly by a positive number equally far from zero. Read more...
By Rosemarie Emanuele. Imagine a shadow cast upon a wall. Shining a light behind an object causes a three dimensional object to project a two dimensional image. I found myself thinking of this recently as I contemplated Ursuline College and how many changes it had undergone since I have been here. Read more...
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