Once, I passed a teepee on the highway but I didn’t know anything. Then you wrote to me that you lived the Navajo life for two weeks. How you were witness to night catching the scent of the stars in its palm, so it’s just you, the fire, and a billion pinhole apertures expanding across
Tag: Issue 5 Spring 2015
In 1971 Charles K. Bliss debuted the eponymous Blissymbolics System, hoping to change the ways humans communicate. He wanted to create an international language based on visual symbols that could be used by people of all backgrounds, ages, and levels of ability. The Blissymbolics system consists of a series of carefully crafted ideograms and pictograms:
There are few things in the United States that go unchanged for nearly a century. Our paper currency is, unfortunately, one of them. The faces on our country’s bills have remained the same since 1929, when Andrew Jackson first graced the $20 bill. It seems only fitting that, after 86 years, someone else should get
In the aftermath of the report that Hillary Clinton exclusively used a personal email account to conduct official business as Secretary of State, one question lingers in the mind of many Americans: was this “scandal” as shocking as it was made out to be? A week after the initial revelation, Clinton said in a press
There is an imposing brick mansion on Manhattan’s Upper East Side set back behind a tall fence and across the street from Central Park. The building is 116 years old, but the museum is one of the most gadget-filled I’ve been to. I visited the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum on my own one afternoon
Starbucks is no stranger to the world of social and global issues. In 1994, the company adopted coffee and farmer equity practices to ensure the fair pay treatment of employees and encourage the use of environmentally friendly products. In 2003, Starbucks acquired Ethos Water Fund to promote clean water projects around the world. In 2012,
On Tuesday, March 31, after 42 and a half years on the job, Sgt. Robert McCarthy retired from the Tufts University Police Department. For years, he collaborated with the Tufts Observer , giving us the most entertaining—and strange—police reports that TUPD encounters on the job. He shook our hands and told us sincerely: “This was
As career opportunities change along with our rapidly transforming and increasingly interconnected world, some students have adjusted their undergraduate studies by designing their own major. Tufts offers students the opportunity to create their own major through an interdisciplinary studies (IS) program. This program allows students to opt out of the typical major and minor structure
He is the painter who chopped off his ear. She is the soul singer who got booed off the stage for her incoherent babbling. He is the deaf composer who cried because he could not hear the audience’s applause at the end of his piece. He is the tortured artist: the cliché that if you
If you have visited the Museum of Fine Arts Boston in the past few years, perhaps you saw Mario Testino’s British Royal Portraits. Perhaps you wandered through rooms filled with the clothing of the Woodstock generation, pink dresses from Evelyn Lauder’s collection, or the fashion photographs of celebrity photographer Herb Ritts. These exhibitions are the
Situated in the middle of Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue, one of the nation’s premier shopping districts, Uniqlo’s three-story, 89,000 square foot megastore boasts colossal glass windows and a distinct rainbow color scheme throughout, rendering it is as much a spectacle as a functional retail space. It is no coincidence that this flagship store shares aesthetic characteristics
when hearts restart, they don’t, really. they just press pause on one story mode and create a new user profile to start another, that way, no levels are leveled and just in case you can’t turn auto-save off things won’t fall apart entirely. attention: this is no Lana Del Rey shit, it WAS