Students Remember David Carr the Professor
Last week David Carr, a New York Times columnist and the Andrew R. Lack professor of journalism, collapsed in the Times’s newsroom, and was later pronounced dead. During his brief time as …
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The Road to Space
Be sure to check out the group’s incredible videos of the hot fire test here and here. The members of Boston University’s Rocket Propulsion Group gaze steadily at their rocket …
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This is Rocket Fuel
All photos by the author. “This is rocket science,” Peter Ojdrovic said as he tried in vain to wipe the shiny black goop off his fingers and into the crevices …
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White House Releases Climate Change Data, Calling On Developers To Make It Personal
In an effort to personalize the potential impacts of climate change, the White House unveiled a new website last week that compiles data about future environmental risks like coastal flooding, …
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How to Run the World on Renewable Energy
Most of the time, climate science is a pessimist’s game. It’s all extreme weather conditions, melting ice caps, and cities being slowly devoured by rising tides. What’s more, the social …
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Student Government’s Conundrum
A few days after the annual student leaders dinner with President Robert A. Brown, a group of Boston University students sat in the backcourt of the George Sherman Union and …
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Cooking is Chemistry
Cooking is chemistry. Understanding that chemistry serves to deflate the mystery from cooking, and offers a harmless introduction to the mysteries of science.
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College the American Way
Kento Okamoto lived in Tokyo for his whole life before college, but he isn’t very Japanese. He didn’t want where he would go to college—and therefore where he could get …
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Should the Smartest Voices in the Room be Silent?
Not a day goes by we don’t face value-based decision on what we eat or how we interact with the natural environment. Those choices are not always clear on a …
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Annual amateur Super Bowl live blog show great job!
That’s it folks. Seattle Seahawks 43, Denver Broncos, 8. For the first time, the Seahawks have won a Super Bowl. Thanks for reading. I hope you learned something. If not, …
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Divest BU: A School Year in Review
Ben Thompson views climate change as a slow apocalypse. The issue is dire enough to the soft-spoken math grad student that he’s travelled across the country to express his support …
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Concord Votes to Uphold Bottled Water Ban
Water has set Concord, Massachusetts ablaze. Wednesday night, over 1300 of the 17,668 members of the town streamed into Concord-Carlisle Regional High School for the annual Town Meeting. They filled …
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