Image of the Week
marijuana makes us munch
This is an article I wrote for a college food magazine my group created in my publishing class. The concept of the magazine was to tell college students about food: the science, the culture, and the taste. Why I got assigned to a story about marijuana, I don’t know. Most likely, it was because I … Read more
broccoli rabe and bacon grease
It is amazing what bacon grease is capable of. Most of the time, it gives me problems. Splattering, spitting, spilling, splotching. Any sort of mess-making verb, and bacon grease can be the noun. My mom would tell you that it’s my fault; the heat should be lower under the fry pan. But I blame bacon. … Read more
mindful music
After the whole semester, I finally have found a piece worth its salt. Or its notes. In the Science Times this week, a piece called To Tug Hearts, Music First Must Tickle The Neurons, inspired me. The subject, the writing, the style, the facts etc. Everything about it was science based and yet it found … Read more
middle school book reports go pro
I can remember sitting at a desk in English class in 7th grade. This was back when my chair was still attached to my desk, the spelling words were simpletons such as restaurant and monotonous, and book reports were due every Friday. The book reports consisted of selecting your own book, reading it during the … Read more
Oliver Sacks–the man, the myth, the legend
Oliver Sacks has always had vision with a vision. At ten years old, when most little boys would be playing with matchbox cars in the dirt, Oliver built a stereoscope to look at the universe in a new dimension. When most college-aged boys were doing keg stands and attempting to woo women, Oliver was getting … Read more
turning up the volume for stereo sue
Sometimes, when you have a good story, all you have to do is learn to turn up the volume on it. Oliver Sacks, the author of a story from the New Yorker entitled Stereo Sue, needs some lessons on how to do this very thing. First off, his topic was extraordinary. The history and stories … Read more
times tackles turbulence
The Science Times this week was predictable, but better than the past issues I have read in the last couple of months. Maybe it is because, for horrible reasons, they have something to work with. But besides the coverage of the quake, there were some other interesting articles as well. One of the articles I read … Read more
journalists try to sum up japan
The natural disasters of the world must be in some sort of March Madness competition. Hurricanes, tsunamis and earthquakes, all trying to top each other. I am starting to ask myself, where are the meteors? So this week in class, recently bruised with the news of the happenings and horribleness of Japan, the group and … Read more
i thought i was supposed to learn in college
It is not that my teachers are not teaching me. It is not that my classes are not interesting. But some assignments, where I am asked to read, say, the New York Times Science Times, do not teach me anything. How am I supposed to learn Science Writing from the best when they keep letting … Read more
