Apple Banana Buttermilk Pancakes Soft, flavorful, and filled with bits of crisp apple, these pancakes make the perfect weekend breakfast or late-night treat. The apple and banana compliment the creamy flavor of the pancake and provide some added health benefits as well. For a healthier breakfast, substitute whole-wheat flour and use skim milk. If buttermilk…
“The Battle of the Five Armies” is not the best Peter Jackson movie to date. After five other Peter Jackson movies in the series have been made, it feels like the last one should really take the cake. However, this movie falls short in many categories. Although the basic plot is decent, the acting is above…
Kurdish forces inside of the city of Kobane have announced that after 134 days of fighting, Kobane is under the control of Peshmerga and there are no longer any ISIS militants within the city. There are reports of ISIS militants in surrounding villages. However, Peoples Protection Units (YPG) and Peshmerga forces are preparing to retake…
[google_maps id=”5624″] Check out this video from Suchot Kongsomboonvech’s study abroad at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
Chapter 4: Shards of a Myth The area was sacred. Everyone, clan member or not, could sense the power that protected the relics. It was strange. Anyone with ill intentions were repelled at the entrance, forbidding them entrance. Of those that were able to enter, only a handful could touch the weapons; the others were…
For more on this issue, see the results of our campus survey here, an opinion piece from Undergraduate Student Government here and the response from Mines Dining here. With the opening of the much-anticipated Mines Market in the Elm Hall, Mines Dining has supposedly stepped into a new age of superior dining services with Sodexo…
The following article is part of a recurring segment in which the Oredigger reviews a department on campus by interviewing the department head and surveying current seniors. To see more articles in this segment click here. Below is a transcript of an interview with the Physics department head, Jeff Squier, conducted by the Oredigger. What…
Are leaders ordinary people made extraordinary through hard work and training, or are certain individuals destined to make a difference in the world? While this nature versus nurture debate is big enough for a class of its own, the new Leadership Practices and Assessment Seminar series seeks to develop the leadership skills of Mines students…
Colorado, USA- Scientists at Colorado State University have invented a device that allows deaf individuals to hear again, not with their ears, but with their tongues. Although the system that attaches on the tongue does not restore hearing, it converts sound into wave vibrations that can be felt by the tongue. The user would then…
