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As much as I love cooking meals, baking is much more fun for me. I love passing out my baked goods to friends and watching their reaction to the treats. The reaction to these were especially great because, after peeling back the wrapper, you can see that these are not just normal cupcakes; they're rainbow cupcakes!
If you want to see something truly indescribable, go to Machu Picchu in Peru. One of the seven wonders of the world, Machu Picchu is an Incan city that remained unknown to the Spanish conquistadors and to outsiders in general until it was "discovered" (I use this term loosely because the local people knew of its existence) by Yale professor Hiram Bingham in 1911.
Hopkins held its first Ignite@JHU event at Nolan's Student Lounge last Thursday night. Gathering an audience of 150 students, Ignite is an event in which speakers have only five minutes and 20 slides to present a topic. The event was hosted by the Digital Media Center (DMC) and Charles Commons Connections.
A Scripps research team led by chemist Phil Baran recently synthesized the largest amount of pure taxadiene to date. Taxanes, a family of compounds that includes Taxol, one of the most important cancer drugs discovered, have been difficult to isolate in the past due to their complexity. These findings suggest the possibility of researching previously unavailable potential drugs.
The Rec Center gym was crowded with costumes and competition as Engineers Without Borders Guatamala (EWB) hosted its third annual Dodgeball tournament this past Friday evening to raise money for their intersession trip to Guatamala this winter.
If you're a gym rat, then it just doesn't feel right to sit on your butt and not move. Needless to say, if you're a regular, you probably know who the other regulars are.
All across the nation, patients with kidney disorders have only one option in order to live a normal life without undergoing dialysis multiple times a week: obtaining a kidney transplant. Oftentimes the transplanted kidney comes in the form of deceased donor kidney transplantation (a situation where a kidney becomes available from an individual who has volunteered their organs for donation upon their death). However, this option has countless variables such as whether the deceased individual will match the patient's blood work or whether the patient is even eligible for a transplant at the time of the donor's death.
With the promising applications that carbon nanotubes might have for our daily lives, there exists the possibility that they may yet be harmful to us in some manner. Scientists at the Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, School of Medicine, Department of Chemistry and Kennedy Krieger Institute have recently found that multiwalled carbon nanotubes, which are toxic, are not taken up by enterocytes, the absorptive cells lining your intestines.
Understanding when and where liquid water existed on Mars is crucial to determining whether the Red Planet ever housed living organisms. A new study in Nature suggests that there was liquid water under the surface of Mars three to four billion years ago.
The Great Hall in Levering was filled with laughter, smiles and chatter as 43 girls ran around with paper, cardboard, sticks and glue for their projects this past Saturday. The girls were exploring engineering at a program hosted by Hopkins's Ready Set Design!
The History of Art Department's most recent addition, Dr. Felipe Pereda of Madrid, Spain, has filled a gap in art history's Western timeline — medieval to early modern Spanish art.
The Hopkins Wrestling squad has come off a tough weekend after facing three losses on the road. JHU traveled to participate in the Wrestling for a Cure Duals in Harrisburg, PA where the Blue Jays saw some great opposing teams on Saturday.
It is commonly accepted that humans, and primates in general, are a relatively unmatched species when it comes to the brain. For example, a primate's brain has a larger pre-frontal cortex — the area used for making decisions and where personality is housed, something which is thought to be specific to primates and humans.
It's that time of year again.
The Johannes String Quartet played at the Baltimore Museum of Art last Saturday, Nov. 12, as part of the Shriver Hall Concert Series. Consisting of violinist Soovin Kim, violinist Jessica Lee, violist Choong-Jin Chang and cellist Peter Stumpf, the group took to the stage in a filled auditorium. They began by introducing the first piece, "Homonculus," which was written for them by Esa-Pekka Salonen in 2007.
Last week The News-Letter introduced you to the visual novel; this week, Alex Mui continues by covering the history and creation of the medium.
The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) never ceases to amaze with its thematic programs played with beautiful intensity and pristine quality.
Angels & Airwaves's just-released album Love: Part Two is the second half of the larger Love album, an album that definitely exists thematically and sonically as one whole collection of 22 songs but that also divides neatly into its two distinct parts.
ad Theatre at CENTERSTAGE is the place to go this month if you are looking to watch a classic American drama with a gritty masculine side.
This Single of the Week, "Time is like a Melody," comes from new-to-the-scene Danish band Pinkunoizu. The four band members, Andres Pallisgaard, Jaleh Negari, Jakob Falgren and Jeppe Brix, are all pharmacists from Copenhagen. This already quirky sounding band only gets stranger.