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(03/07/12 5:00am)
This week, the Coalition of Hopkins Activists for Israel (CHAI) hosted the annual Israel Peace Week (IPW). A grassroots campaign that focuses on educating students about Israel's steps toward peace with the Palestinians, IPW attempts to respond to anti-Israel propaganda. As one of its events this week, members of CHAI stood on the breezeway, handing out chocolate bars with attached facts about Israel's recent attempts to attain peace.
(03/07/12 5:00am)
Historian Lonnie Bunch, Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), discussed the obstacles he faces as he tries to establish a museum that is memorable and "quintessentially American" this past Tuesday Hopkins's Program in Museum and Society and Center for Africana Studies collaborated to bring this event to Hopkins this past Tuesday.
(03/07/12 5:00am)
The Foreign Affairs Symposium hosted a panel on Occupy Wall Street, featuring seven representatives from Occupy sites across the United States, this past Tuesday in Shriver Hall. The panelists discussed how individual communities across America have utilized grassroots activism to unite against social, economic and political inequality.
(03/07/12 5:00am)
Coalition of Hopkins Activists for Israel (CHAI)'s Israel Peace Week took place this week at Hopkins to campaign about the Israeli desire for peace. Hasbara Fellowships, StandWithUs, JerusalemOnlineUniversity and Hopkins Hillel, in addition to College Republicans, Foreign Affairs Symposium, Sigma Iota Rho and Students for Environmental Action (SEA) sponsored the week of events.
(03/07/12 5:00am)
François Ozon's film Potiche translates to English as "trophy wife," but the term is better understood as a "decorative vase."
(03/07/12 5:00am)
You wouldn't necessarily think that a dorm-necessitated cafeteria would be the hub of literary or cultural activity at Hopkins, but Thoroughfare events have proved in the past, and continue to prove now, that student arts can flourish just about anywhere.
(03/07/12 5:00am)
If you've been meaning to go to visit the National Aquarium or the Maryland Science Center, you should take advantage of the deal they are offering from now through the end of March.
(03/07/12 5:00am)
In the mood for wraps? How about noodles? Or perhaps you're looking for something more desert-appropriate, such as frozen yogurt. Whatever healthy option you're looking for, be it breakfast, lunch, dinner or desert, you can probably find it at Freshii.
(03/07/12 5:00am)
Winter is coming - or is it? On one hand it has been quite pleasant not to walk in between classes, to the supermarket or to anywhere around Baltimore when it's actually freezing.
(03/07/12 5:00am)
Sure, the bitter, protracted contest between Mitt Romney and Co. is technically still an open-ended question. But it doesn't take a number-crunching analyst to tell you that for underdogs Gingrich, Santorum and Paul, it's already settled. Even now, strategists on both sides of the aisle are busy prepping the ring for what's looking to be the final face-off between Mitt Romney — the GOP's de facto nominee — and President Barack Obama.
(03/07/12 5:00am)
If all goes well, a car-sized probe weighing in at a little over 1300 pounds is set to make an intimate exploration of the Sun's outer atmosphere by 2018. Scientists at the Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) have gotten the green light from NASA to move onto the next phase in designing the Solar Probe Plus.
(03/07/12 5:00am)
Ever since its discovery in 1905, the infamous Tyrannosaurus rex has attained a celebrity status that is unique among dinosaurs. While larger and more ruthless dinosaurs have since been discovered, T. rex and his famished companions, the Allosaurus and Velociraptor, continue to secure leading roles in films such as Jurassic Park, Night of the Museum and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.
(03/07/12 5:00am)
For every cell in our body, allocation of proper energy supply is very important. Lack of it could lead to fatal outcomes, such as death or cancer. Adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase, also known as AMPK, plays a critical role in maintaining cellular energy homeostasis.
(03/07/12 5:00am)
Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have applied a process called "squeezing" to one of the smallest building blocks of matter in an attempt to fully understand the nature of atoms.
(03/07/12 5:00am)
The technology placed into giving football fans sky-cam views of their favorite NFL teams could one day offer another method by which cargo could be transported across the globe.
(03/07/12 5:00am)
Alice Notley is a renowned poet, having published over 20 volumes of poetry, and has won an armful of literary prizes — the most recent being the Leonore Marshall Poetry Prize for Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005.
(03/07/12 5:00am)
This Single of the week, "Bait and Switch," comes from long time favorite alternative band, The Shins.
(03/07/12 5:00am)
Author Anatole France once said, "History books that contain no lies are extremely dull." The largely unknown chapter of American history unveiled on Mar. 3 at a "Dinner and a Movie" event sponsored by the Black Graduate Student Association is anything but glamorous. It is, not surprisingly, omitted from many textbooks that provide a fraudulent but friendlier interpretation of history.
(03/07/12 5:00am)
If you demand several exploding whales in your humor books, then this book is not for you. If you demand several exploding whales in all of your books, then you're probably leading a very unsatisfying life. But if you're okay with just one exploding whale, then you've come to the right review.
(03/07/12 5:00am)
Ron Weasley's high-pitched squeals demonstrate all too well how the dire fear of spiders can manifest itself. Recent psychological research demonstrates that individuals who fear spiders tend to overestimate the size of these creatures and perceive them as physically larger than their actual size.
