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Walk into almost any food establishment, ask for a cup of water and they will gladly give it to you for free. After all, you are most likely going to spend some of your money on their food, and, if not, it is generally seen as an act of kindness to give water to someone who is thirsty. Then, why, when I walk into the Levering Café and ask for a cup of water, am I charged 24 cents for "the cup?"
With a title as innocuous as Drive, a catchphrase as generic as "there are no clean getaways" and little to no hype or publicity, it comes as possibly the best shock of the year that Drive isn't just good, it's close to incredible.
The Explosions in the Sky performance at Rams Head Live! last Saturday was sold out weeks before the day of the concert. The audience was anxious to watch them live, and the venue was packed about half an hour after the doors opened.
What is it about the 60's that has the television industry all abuzz?
In last week's issue, Bayly Winder discussed President Obama's decision to oppose unilateral Palestinian statehood through the United Nations, and insist on Israeli-Palestinian peace talks as the best way to bring peace and stability to the Middle East.
The Women's Pre-Health Leadership Society (WPHLS), a new student group on campus, recently hosted a "$2/Day Challenge," where fifteen students lived without shelter and off of only two dollars a day. This page praises WPHLS for bringing the important, but often ignored, issue of homelessness to campus. We hope the Hopkins community sees the event as inspiration to create more awareness about homelessness and to come up with constructive proposals for dealing with it.
Approximately one month ago, DC Comics rebooted its entire line of superhero comics titles. Action Comics, Detectives Comics, Batman, Superman, all numbering above the 700's, restarted with issues all starting at one. 52 new comic series, dubbed the New 52, have landed on the shelves, telling stories of younger, fresher heroes only about five years into their careers. Superman is the world's first hero, while Batman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman and the rest soon come out of the woodwork.
They Might Be Giants opened its Philadelphia concert at the Theater of the Living Arts with the aptly named, "How Do You Spell TLA?" The number exists because the band wrote customized venue songs for each stop on their 2004 Spine on the Hiway Tour. Of course they did.
In Blink-182's new album, Neighborhoods, released Sept. 27, the group integrates the new synthetic style adopted by many artists with their own traditional unique style. This blend forms a new flavor for Blink-182, one that many fans will savor.
Genre is a tricky topic. While some believe it's a great taxonomy for clarifying and classifying our culture, Mastodon's fifth studio album The Hunter shows some of genre's truest weaknesses.
In the Sept. 15th issue of The News-Letter, the article entitled "Artist with amnesia enlightens scientists" was published in the Science & Technology section. The exhibit is now examined on a more aesthetic level.
The Hopkins volleyball team capped off a strong week with impressive wins over Hood College and Centennial Conference rivals Swarthmore and Franklin and Marshall. The victories improved the Jays' record to 13-4 overall and 4-0 in the Centennial. Hopefully these wins provide a good indication of what's to come for the Jays.
While invisibility cloaks are still mostly associated with fantasy (and Harry Potter), physicists and engineers have already developed rudimentary invisibility cloaks that shield objects from light, sound, and water waves. Now, they have moved cloaking technology another step forward with the development of a cloak that can shield an object from a static magnetic field, keeping the field undisturbed – an anti-magnet cloak.
As of Wednesday, the Nobel Prize committee has announced the recipients for three of the Nobel Prizes, with Literature Prize due to be announced today, the Peace Prize on Friday and the Economic Sciences Prize on Monday.
The Student Government Association (SGA) welcomed their newly elected Freshman Class President, Joshua Goodstein, and six Freshman Senators, Evan Brooker, Mahzi Malcolm, Alex Barbera, Alexsandra Olekhnovich, Nash Jenkins and Rodolfo Finocchi at their meeting Tuesday night.
With all of the attention and excitement that the Nobel Prize announcements this week have attracted, a smaller celebration of science honored some intriguing and fairly humorous work. Recognizing work that may never win recognition from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Ig Nobel Prizes demonstrate the lighter side of science and academia.
Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have located the H1N1 virus in animals by conducting nasal swab tests and taking blood samples from domestic pigs in the Cameroon region of Africa.
The Baltimore Office of Promotion and The Arts (BOPA) is hosting its sixth annual Free Fall Baltimore this entire month, an event that brings together museums, theatre, literary organizations and other local artistic endeavors to the Baltimore community for free. This year, BOPA implemented a larger advertising campaign and has added more programs to the calendar, such as events from Black Male Identity Project and Literary Arts Week.
The Space Shuttle Atlantis successfully completed its last mission on July 21st of this year, officially ending the thirty-year program. With this came a transitional phase at NASA, one that had been predicted for a long time prior. NASA has spent the last generation with its 1970's shuttle technology, to which its veteran scientists and engineers grew accustomed. With the end of the program, it was feared than many technical employees would either retire or leave to work in private industry for higher salaries.
Not even the rain could slow down the men's soccer team on Saturday as they looked to continue their hot streak and remain tied at the top of the Centennial Conference.