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I saw M. Night Shyamalan's Lady In The Water at the drive-in last summer and didn't pay too much attention to it. It was my last night home for the summer, so I was focusing more on friends and the future. After watching it again, I realized that it was actually a good movie. It has an interesting plot, intriguing characters, and it kind of makes you think.  Read More »

Everyone's always talking about hybrids being the technology of now and the future. Toyota and Honda's hybrids, Saturn's GreenLines, and Ford's hybrids are all used by the general public. To tell you the truth, most of the hybrids purchased are all to make people feel like they're saving the world.  Read More »

Everyone looks to the afterlife with fear. We all wonder whether we're going to Heaven or Hell. Our images of these places are shaped by our churches, our parents, and certain books (i.e. Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy). But what if the afterlife is actually the result of our own imagination.  Read More »

The European Union is now threatening to take away one of German's greatest icons: the Speed Limit-less Autobahn. They believe that no limit of speed is contributing to Global Warming. Germany approached this with little enthusiasm. They believe that the Autobahn is a free road for a free people. Is it really necessary to remove one of our modern wonders for the sake of Global Warming?  Read More »

Global Warming is a major issue at hand these days. Everyone's talking about reducing emissions, recycling, conserving energy. I even made a remark about building sustainably. Preach all you want about saving the world, but it's too late.  Read More »

I've decided to take an angle of global consciousness that probably hasn't been explored on this website: Sustainable Design. As an Architecture student, I am learning more about designing buildings with the environment in mind. If you want to help fight Global Warming (trust me, I'm not a huge advocate for it), then press architects and planners to become more sustainable.  Read More »

The FCC has done it again. Now, in addition to editing sexual and language content, they will be editing violence, too. Certain politicians and parents are afraid that there is too much violence on during primetime. Our favorite shows, such as 24, might be censored. Sometimes we need the violence. It helps to build the mood.  Read More »

I heard from one of my professors that humor is the number 2 sign of intelligence in human beings. Does this include sarcasm? Do you have to make up jokes and not just tell them?

He told us that anyone you know who tells a lot of jokes must be pretty intelligent. I myself make up nearly-countless jokes on a weekly basis, but I'm not the most intelligent person. I'm smart, but that doesn't mean I'm necessarily intelligent. Sometimes I feel like this isn't entirely true, but I can be intelligent about certain things.  Read More »