The showrunners for HBO’s Game of Thrones made headlines recently when they announced that President Obama had requested and received an advance copy of the sixth season. Out of context, the situation sounds a little funny: the president of the United States specifically requested early access to the sixth season of a TV fantasy series […]
Archives for May 2016
Blast from the Past: The Phenomenon of Television Reboots
Rebooting might be an exciting new trend in television, but is it always the best idea?
The Road to Hell is Paved with Good Intentions
Ivan Illich, an Austrian philosopher and outspoken critic of contemporary western culture, in his speech to the 1968 Conference on Inter-American Student Projects, said, “next to guns and money, the third-largest North American export is the American idealist.” The resource, replenished each year with a new graduating class of wide-eyed twenty-somethings eager to make their […]
20 Years Later: France’s Radioactive Legacy in French Polynesia
Two decades have passed since the last nuclear test was conducted in the South Pacific, but native Polynesians continue to suffer the aftermath.
Interpreting China’s Sloppy Rhetoric
A blip in one of China’s typically polished press releases raises eyebrows. Was it intentional or a product of incompetence?
Local Voice, Global Issue – Ep. 1: Yik Yak and Campus Dialogue
Debates on issues such as political correctness have become more contentious on colleges across the nation. Yik Yak and other forms of anonymous social media are now playing a bigger role in the discussion. Since many posts have been derogatory or vacuous, should anonymous social media even be part of the discourse? [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/262546076?secret_token=s-Tmy41″ params=”color=000000&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” […]
The Fatal Flaw of Border Security
Maria Ochoa will not forget the day in June 2007 when her party stumbled upon human remains while searching for an undocumented immigrant in the southern Arizona desert. We were looking for a young woman that had stayed behind with her uncle and her husband because her uncle had become ill. She was seven months […]
Gene Sequencing Advances May Create New Questions Concerning Privacy Rights
The newest innovations in gene sequencing has made the technology accessible and easy to use. This could place genetic privacy at the forefront of the world’s privacy concerns.