Last Wednesday, Oiio Design Studio released a concept for “The Big Bend,” a skyscraper that bends into a semicircle at the top and makes its way back to ground level.
Posts published in “Past Opinion Columns”
My last five columns explored philosophy’s purpose. The series was provoked, in part, by the claim of physicist Stephen Hawking that science has rendered philosophy obsolete as a truth-seeking method.
Last week we had the biggest snowstorm in the area in at least the past 10 years – but how did technology play a role in forecasting this event, and what’s with these “models” that the newscasters kept talking about?
It’s that weird time of year where it’s 50 degrees with snow on the ground. One day you’re freezing, the next you wish you left your winter jacket home!
This is the fifth and—I promise–last in a series of posts on philosophy’s purpose.
When I teach philosophy at Stevens, I prime the pump by asking, What is philosophy for?
I’ll be celebrating my birthday a few days after this piece is published. For some reason, I seem to frequently celebrate my birthday with Chinese food, so I figured I’d write about a rather unique place in Chinatown I found out about nearly a decade ago (yikes, I feel so old!).
Let’s be real for a moment- cooking is a pain — or should I say, cooking as a student is a pain.
While I’ve been to plenty of restaurants, I usually only try to review places that I haven’t been to before. After all, Stevens is all about innovation (does that count?)
This week, let’s move to technology integration in a field that tons of people have an interest in study: biology and medicine.
In honor of the third Hoboken water main break of the year, I’m going to write about an odd and underappreciated benefit of New York: the water.