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Christmas specials: the good and the bad

Since this will be our last installment before winter break, we thought we’d take the time to talk about a special subspecies of television: the holiday episode.

The Ides of March: ‘Hot Campaign Sex’ or ‘Misogynist'?

Every American who doesn’t live under a rock knows that Mitt Romney once had a binder full of women. By 6 a.m. the morning after […]

Homemade Pi and Bite-Sized Chips

When I was a kid, my aunt gave me a book of science fair project ideas. The book was old — published no later than […]

Game Change –> Game Over

By 11:30, it was over. All the major networks had announced that Barack Obama was going to be the winner. Shortly thereafter, his rival conceded […]

Looking to rage or getting engaged?

When I landed in Dallas to visit my friend at Southern Methodist University, her hair was blonder than I remembered. In the car we didn’t […]

Ladies and gentleman… er, just gentleman

This past July, the Yale College Council sent an email asking students to vote for a Fall Show comedian from a list of 22 men. […]

'Last Resort:' Almost There

SN: This week, we look at the first installments of “Last Resort,” which seems to aspire to be the next “LOST”: a massively popular hourlong […]

A Case for Variation: On Allen and Mozart

“It seems to me I’ve heard that song before,” the movie score warbles. “It’s from an old familiar score. I know it well, that melody.” […]

Lookin’ for a Dollar

So Macklemore walks into a thrift shop with $20 dollars in his pocket. It’s not the beginning of a joke (or if it is, I […]

Rebel Without a Pause

Coming-of-age movies are pretty self-defeating when you think about it. You see, the problem with any given one is that it’s usually pretty difficult to […]

Outer Space on a Dime

NASA’s final space shuttle mission ended July 2011, to the sadness of countless nerds, science enthusiasts and people who simply believe in exploring the universe […]