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Interview with Lester, Functional Humanoid

She looked at me and turned her thingie off. And said typical. And then turned over and kept vibrating.

by Samuel Bollen on April 16, 2016October 2, 2016

Education as Spectacle

The second day of school was harder than expected. After purchasing my freakishly heavy textbooks from Labyrinth and grabbing a cup of coffee, I figured it was time to plan out the rest of my afternoon. First order of business: take a nap. Second order of business: at least try to print out the problem set due in two days.

by Zach Cohen on October 17, 2015

New Jersey As a Non-Site

As a fourth-generation Jersey girl, I was immediately intrigued by “New Jersey as a Non-Site,” the featured exhibit at the Princeton University Art Museum. Signs around campus described it as “art of the avant-garde(n) state.”

by Emily Kamen on November 7, 2013July 21, 2017

The Facebook Age

Since the advent of the internet, the intimacy that we feel with our pop songs has changed. When content is so utterly customizable, taste is automatically effected; musical taste can now be articulated in a broad spectral slate of enumerations—the … Read More

by Rob Madole on April 18, 2007March 17, 2013

THE PHILOSOPHICAL FIVE (my very objective opinion on the best and worst philosophers of all time)

“Also known as the father of all philosophy (daddy?) Socrates is the original playboy. Everyone, and I mean everyone, fangirls over him.”

by Lumepa-Rose Young on November 20, 2022November 20, 2022

Top 23 Ways to Kill Your Lover

We at The Nass are in the business of maintaining our cherished readership’s happiness in all walks of life, and with Valentine’s Day a recent but no less traumatic event of the past, we understand how draining (both emotionally and … Read More

by staff on February 14, 2007March 17, 2013

Women in Math

“The issue, then, is that in the minds of female students, math becomes a game for ‘smart people’—and over time, fewer and fewer girls retain the confidence to overcome that perception.”

by Caroline Castleman on May 8, 2017July 21, 2017

Sun-Dance

Pee-poem.

by Joel Newberger on November 14, 2012March 22, 2013

One Reader’s Beef with Buzzfeed.com

On Buzzfeed’s “About Us” page, the site claims to be “a new kind of media company for the social world. Our technology powers the viral distribution of content, detects what is trending on the web, and connects people in realtime with the hottest content of the moment. Our site is a rapidly growing hub for viral media that reaches over 13 million monthly unique visitors and our viral media network reaches an additional 200M.”

by Robin Glover on December 6, 2012March 22, 2013

Aberrations of Nature!

Miss Victoria Lace and Miss Cee’Mour Cox, two professional drag queens, held court at the All Ivy Drag Competition on Frist Campus Center’s South Lawn. “Let’s see what’s edible,” Victoria commented ominously to Cee’Mour near the beginning of the show as they scanned the audience in the tent for “tasty” men.

by Stephan Crown-Weber Crown-Weber on April 18, 2007March 17, 2013

An Atheist Guide to Grief

“Life had been returned to her—the one she squeezed every drop of, the one she did and redid in her stories when it was just the two of us in the living room of our first house.”

by Camila Villavizar Gomez on September 27, 2025

Nass Recommends: 100% Twilight Princess Speedrun (with Commentary) by YouTuber bewildebeast.

In cheerful defense of shortcuts.

by Peyton Smith on March 5, 2023


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