Blogs
Blogs
Don’t be afraid to play with your food: The case for reading the blurb and a simple black bean recipe
When you sit down to find a recipe, what are you searching for? You may have 10 minutes, an appreciation for authenticity, a peanut...
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This dude I met on the street
I’m wandering through the fog down backstreets, alleyways, and riverside footpaths at around about midday, dead phone, alone, dressed a bit too warm, and...
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Four Days in Jujuy
My world has always been small. I was born in a tiny New England town of 2,000 people. The city I've lived in for...
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A List of Differences Between Here and Home (With a Very British Reference At The End)
1. I’d believe that the Earth was rhomboid and President Donald Trump would lead us into an age of peace and prosperity before I’d...
2014
Pintxos reemerge in Pasadena
Author: Nettie Stein-Miller With the new and trending small-plate marketing platform, tapas and pintxos—small savory Spanish dishes—are appearing all over the Los Angeles culinary scene. Though...
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The Game of War: The American military is blurring the lines between virtual reality and warfare, with chilling consequences
Author: Joseph Evans Two videos, from two very different perspectives, caught my attention this week. In the first, 13-year-old Mohammed Tuaiman documents his life in Ma’rib...
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Back to the Cretaceous at the Catlins
Author: Emma Lodes It was like I imagined the rolling green hills of the English countryside, just after dawn. Skies cold patchy blue behind a marine...
2015
Classes in the Cloud Forests
Author: Delaney Nolin
As a biology student staring down my junior year at Occidental, there seemed to be no better place to study abroad than...
2015
Episode 2: Rock Rock! Who’s there? Alaska, One More Time!
Author: Melina Devoney Carrying bear spray and 70-pound backpacks, geology professor Ann Blythe, Thomas Warfel (senior), David Phillips (senior) and four other geology professors and students...
2015
Investment Banking
Author: William Pottenger The financial crisis in 2008 was basically the result of a lack of liquidity, which means a borrower's access to tangible assets to...
2015
E.C.B. Extends Bond Buying Program
Author: William Pottenger According to a report from The Financial Times, Mario Draghi, Head of the European Central Bank (E.C.B), announced on Dec. 3 that the...
2016
A Valentines Day twist: long-term male birth control
Author: Melina Devoney Everyone knows that many couples were acting like rabbits this Valentine's Day. A lesser-known fact is that a certain group of lab rabbits...
