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The Future: The Sex Laws of Robotics

Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics (“Runaround,” 1942): 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to […]

January 27, 2012

Just say no (to awful sex)

Guys at Yale are bad in bed. I know Yale has taught us to discuss issues with nuance and complexity, but I feel really comfortable […]

January 20, 2012

It’s high time to “make it new”

One nippy New York night over break, I ventured across Manhattan to see The Artist, the prohibitive favorite for the Best Picture Oscar, at the […]

January 20, 2012

The TLC Tip: All your problems are stupid

The TLC Tip runs on alternate Fridays. Send manufactured life dramas and detailed descriptions of your rashes to lauren.rosenthal@yale.edu. Pictures are not needed, or wanted. […]

January 20, 2012

Chopin Channels Hendrix

If you talk often to people enthusiastic about classical music, you’re bound to run into those who will tell you that the Romantic period was […]

January 13, 2012

Finding Kubrick’s Heir

Acclaimed Hollywood auteur David Fincher’s latest picture, “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” is a violently sexual change-of-pace film for the holiday season. After losing […]

January 13, 2012

The Future

I’m here to talk to you about The Future. Not “the future,” with its promises of six-figure salaries and daunting dinners with in-laws, but The […]

January 13, 2012

Mussorgsky on my mind

I owe a word of thanks to Nina Wexelblatt — after reading her piece “Fever dreams of indie pop” in the Oct. 7 issue of […]

October 21, 2011

On "The Graduate," graduation

I first saw “The Graduate” during my freshman year of high school. It instantly became my favorite movie. If you don’t know the plot, it […]

October 21, 2011

Revisiting our musical past

The world of trendy music operates according to a paradigm eerily similar to Nietzsche’s idea of eternal recurrence. If Nietzsche is right and time is […]

October 21, 2011