Argonne National Laboratory and Fermilab (both national laboratories managed by the University of Chicago) have particle accelerators that smash bits of atoms together at very high energies, allowing particles to emerge that are otherwise not part of the everyday world. These odd beasts—Z bosons, pi mesons, strange quarks—populated the universe seconds after the Big Bang, [...]
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The short film “Powers of Ten” begins with an aerial shot of a couple picnicking in a Chicago park. The camera zooms out ten meters. It then zooms out again, but the degree of the zoom has increased by a power of ten; the camera is now 100 meters away. It continues to 1,000 meters, [...]
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As we’re now into the 6th month of what is being described as the worse financial crisis since The Great Depression, we’re beginning to sort out what is happening and what we might have to do about it. Of course there are always two (or three) schools of thought about how we should proceed. But [...]
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“At present you need to live the question.” — Rainer Maria Rilke, (translated from the German by Joan M. Burnham.)
What do you think?
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From Steven Jones:
After Mr. E mentioned how the only other people who watch more TV than Americans are the Japanese, I looked for these clips. My theory as to why they watch so much TV (besides Mr. E’s more work = more TV watching theory) is based on crazy Japanese game [...]
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If you’ve been following the election, you must know that this one is tough fought. There have been allegations and accusations back and forth. Behind it all we have the backdrop of potentially the most cataclysmic economic disaster since the Great Depression. And we have seen the debates, the tough as nails debates.
Sometimes during the [...]
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Every year, The University of Chicago rolls out the topics for its much vaunted UNcommon Application. It is chock full of oddities and a bizarre twist or two–in fact, it kind of reminds me of you all. So much more fun, though, than the run of the mill, “Tell us why you’re right [...]
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I have been in this samurai fanatic phase for quite some time now as many of you may have noticed; but I would like to try and explain why I got into them in the first place. I was reading random articles on the world wide web and came across the word Bushido. I was [...]
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In recent days we, as in the AP English class, have been discussing DBQ’s and how knowing about current events can help. I have decided to help with that a little by introducing this topic that has recently hit the news:
WARNING: I in no way accept credit for the following article that is directly copied [...]
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That is my question. How, in this predominantly conservative world, can we change the world in any way without becoming part of some organization that follows the same rules that we are trying to get rid of !?
Take for example a “gang” called Straight Edge. This group of people merely started up to spread the [...]
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