I’m writing this post for two reasons: to recommend a new book by Columbia astrobiologist Caleb Scharf, and to defend an old book of mine.
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As finals draw to a close, we can all breathe a sigh of relief that, whether poorly or well, this semester has finally ended.
As the semester winds down, I returned to an old friend of a restaurant, Stacks Pancake House on Washington Street, which you might know for their warm, fluffy pancakes, abundant salads, and busy brunch atmosphere.
In the grandest rollout of free public Wi-Fi to date, New Yorkers will gain access to the Internet from anywhere in the city with the installation of up to 10,000 Wi-Fi hotspots throughout the five boroughs to form the LinkNYC network.
“Hands up, don’t shoot!”
If this phrase is not familiar to you, you must have somehow missed the news during the last few months.
In my last column, I poked my nose into the debate over whether climate change will precipitate more conflict. I offered half a dozen objections to predictions that more warming means more war.
Hoboken has a plethora of restaurants. While this is almost always a wonderful thing, and a huge benefit to the Mile Square, there is a bit of a drawback.
Many publishers attempt to make video game adaptations of other fictional works. As far as I am concerned, most of those games are poor attempts from developers to capitalize the market, and the products are fairly mediocre, and even laughable.
Time and again, Christopher Nolan has delivered through his unique method of creating films that explore time, morality, humanity, and philosophy.
Though the recent midterms proved historic, both in terms of dollars spent and electoral outcome, there are certain things that are common to all major elections in the United States.