By Lauren D’Ambra, Jade Glaister, and McKenna Larson Now that the academic year is coming to an end and Mines students will finally have some free time, it’s a great opportunity to start picking up things that aren’t homework. While that Nature & Human Values textbook is fascinating, in case you want something else to…
The hobbies gained in 2020 were plentiful, ranging from baking to running, as everyone tried to put their quarantine freetime to good use. Although productive activities were an excellent route to pick, let’s face it, 2020 was extraordinarily rough. While living in the moment is a notable piece of advice, all I and many others…
As the wand is to any well-trained wizard, technology is to the muggle, that is to say, a means of accomplishing feats without which one’s quality of life would be greatly diminished. In their ceaseless attempts to rise above the mundane nature of their magic-less lives, the muggle world has recently witnessed several inventions and…
Book club took a break because, after years of doing this column, I ran out of books to review. Turns out I can only read so many books between homework and projects. Book club is back now and ready to go with some classic literature fanfiction. No, not Fifty Shades of Grey. Twilight does not…
“Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.” -David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas This issue we’re going to talk about a kind of strange book, Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. Why do I call it a weird book? Well, it comes in eleven parts, each written in its own style,…
Daniel Renkert Arts & Culture Editor I really enjoy Tom Stoppard as a playwright. His works tend to ask existential questions with clever dialogue and unique premises. This week I’d like to recommend three somewhat related works of writing to read. The first being the titular piece of this article, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead….
Starting a new book has a sense of beginning a new journey where you don’t know the trail. You get to explore a new place, a new story, and meet new people. Better yet, you can do it all from your house, curled up with a blanket and a cup of tea (I’d recommend a…
Eleanor has a mop of flaming red hair, wears boys’ clothes, and is the very best at reading aloud in her English class. Park is half-Korean, loves reading comic books, and can never quite seem to win the approval of his military father. Neither quite fits into their high school class, but throughout the course…
The continuity of a life, while boring at times, is essentially the crux of human existence. People develop unique likes and dislikes, make meaningful connections with family and friends, and often define themselves by religion, occupation, or skillset. So regular is this concept that it is often impossible to imagine yourself as anyone but…yourself. In…
What is the correlation between a person’s name and their success? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? Is there a relationship between abortion and crime rates? Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner’s popular Freakonomics and Super Freakonomics are literary masterpieces, applying economic concepts to everyday life to reach amazing conclusions. Unfortunately, the newest…