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Owl City: Could It Happen?

During the BET awards last month, an enthusiastic Antoine Dodson briefly assumed control of the stage and gave a rousing rendition of his famous single, “The Bed Intruder Song.” Dodson’s glee was apparent from his vivacious grin, and his energy incited cheers and applause from the crowd. Dodson bore ...

Jonathan Safran Foer has had a trajectory in the publishing world that is close to ideal. In 2002, at the age of 25, he published Everything is Illuminated, a novel that developed out of his senior thesis at Princeton where he was a philosophy major. The book was a major ...

On Monday, November 29, the science community was all abuzz about a big announcement from NASA. That announcement? That they would announce something later that week.

Julian Assange views the world through the prism of mathematical metaphor, one might gather from his article “State and Terrorist Conspiracies.” In this article, Assange describes terrorist networks as connected graphs, a mathematical concept involving nodes and connections between them. In Assange’s words, “take some nails and nail them ...

Perhaps strange, perhaps vague…
How things can break and almost mend themselves,
A little strange.
How we succeed ourselves.
Pioneers barely dominate infinitely
As Parthenon becomes a Laurel and laurels become….

Bee Hive, which happens to be a fifteen minute walk away from here, is just as awesome, actually more awesome because it’s more frequent and reliable and lasts longer and is overall a better investment for the whole family and the screaming children in the backseat who have had ...

Recently, The Candie’s Foundation, which works to educate America about the dangers of teen pregnancy, released a public service announcement featuring Bristol Palin and Mike “The Situation.” In this two-minute video, the pop icons discuss the necessity for safe sex, as related to both abstinence and condoms. At the ...

"I never change; I’m too stuck in my ways.”
There is a hope that we forget that “corrupt but necessary” college admissions process once in college. This, of course, is hypocritical and hopeless, for who hasn’t heard that kid boast of turning down Yale, or boast of some ...

Advertisers described it as “an Aquarian Exposition.” The New York Daily News’ early coverage headlined it “Hippies Mired in a Sea of Mud.” Today, Wikipedia calls it “one of the greatest and most pivotal moments in popular music history.” Conservapedia (in the interest of fair and balanced reporting) describes the ...

Lena Dunham, a 23-year-old filmmaker from New York who has a degree in film studies from Oberlin, plays Aura, a 22-year-old Oberlin grad with a “useless” film studies degree, in Lena Dunham’s first feature as a director, Tiny Furniture, written by: Lena Dunham.