Outer space has long been an object of scientific curiosity and yearning imaginations, but today, its importance in society is growing at escape velocity, quickly becoming more politically and economically critical. When space becomes practically accessible for all, it will change human civilization ...
Spring semesters feel pregnant, somehow. Seniors are on their steady march back toward the Van Wickle Gates, toward the finish line, toward the verge of what they have longed for. A lot is in motion during this time.
Last September, I wrote about how, even as a new student, I knew that this year at Brown was destined to be different. Seven months later, I feel confident that my prediction was correct, although it is impossible to pinpoint exactly what made this year unique. As a first-year student, there is no ...
After a year of online school, I was stunned when I walked into the first class of my sophomore year, an upper-level computer science lecture of 70 students. I couldn鈥檛 see a single other woman in the classroom. I scanned the room a few times, then felt relief as I found at least a couple of female ...
When I was growing up, I didn鈥檛 know that scheduling biannual dental appointments was commonplace. Due to the economic recessions of the 2000s, my family鈥檚 income was shaky for many years, and ...
If you have a TikTok account, you鈥檙e probably familiar with Duo 鈥� the bright green owl mascot of the language learning app Duolingo. On Duolingo, Duo encourages users to practice daily conjugations and vocabulary, but on the official Duolingo TikTok account, ...
It鈥檚 officially springtime: The birds are chirping, the trees are blooming on the Main Green and campus is abuzz with outrage about housing selection for the 2022-23 school year, which can be described as nothing less than a total mess. With few resources about housing options, confusing information ...
Last Sunday, April 3, the 64th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony took place in Las Vegas. Hosted by the Recording Academy, the Grammys are heralded as the most prestigious music awards event in the country. But, especially in recent years, viewership is declining and critics say the awards show is becoming ...
鈥淪o yes, I am furious at the unvaccinated, and I am not ashamed of disclosing that,鈥� wrote Charles M. Blow in a December New York Times op-ed. 鈥淚 am no longer trying to understand them or educate them.鈥� While one columnist certainly can鈥檛 speak for the masses, you don鈥檛 have ...
In a famous column from a couple of years ago, Martin Scorsese explained his viral Empire magazine interview where he said that Marvel movies aren鈥檛 cinema. 鈥淣othing is at risk,鈥� he wrote about the franchise. 鈥淭he pictures are made to satisfy a specific set of demands, and they are ...
The first time I really saw 鈥渟ocial media activism鈥� in action was during the wave of Black Lives Matter protests in May 2020. I was just getting used to the new virtual status quo brought on by the pandemic when, overnight, nearly every online platform I was active on was saturated with media ...
Spring is here, and with it, crocus buds, blustering winds and college decisions from schools across the country. Brown offered admission to a mere 3.6% of its regular decision applicants and 5% of applicants overall for the class of 2026. Applications were at an all-time high this year, breaking ...
Beginning next fall, the Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan: Race, Gender and Inequality course designation will be replaced with a more specific and explicit curriculum program called Race, Power and Privilege. Courses with ...
So-called 鈥減ick me鈥� girls have quickly become the internet鈥檚 favorite punchline. The subject of countless TikTok parody videos, the now-viral 鈥減ick me鈥� girl trend pokes fun at straight women who desperately want men to 鈥減ick鈥� ...
In 2011, Providence took a major step in redressing the damages wrought by highway construction by relocating a portion of Interstate 195 so that it circles around downtown rather than cutting through it. This opened 26 acres of prime downtown real estate for development and productive uses, such as ...
A few years ago, I saw one of my grandfather鈥檚 friends copying an email into a Microsoft Word document word-by-word so that he was re-pasting the entire body of text. I curiously asked what he was doing, and he said that he needed to print out the email so he was painstakingly transferring it over ...
Disney鈥檚 live action remakes are infamous in some movie review and filmmaking circles for being soulless cash grabs piggybacking off of the success of their classic source material. But certain creator-driven remakes in the past indicate that originality and artistry are not incompatible with success. ...
Forty-nine years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade that a woman鈥檚 right to privacy, bodily autonomy and choice was protected by the U.S. Constitution 鈥� legalizing abortion and outlawing states from placing undue restrictions on a woman鈥檚 right to choose. Four months ago, I bundled ...
From Sylvia Plath to Lana Del Rey, many women artists have embraced a keen sort of sadness that feels both delicately feminine and inseparable from their womanhood. It is not the kind of sadness that can be gone and forgotten after a few good cries. It is all-encompassing: an illogical, inexplicable ...
The Bay Area is home to one of the most dire housing crises in the nation. In order to increase the housing supply, in 2013, the Palo Alto City Council drafted plans to change zoning laws to allow the creation of a new multi-family housing development in the middle of a local suburban neighborhood. ...
