Miscellanea
Astrology tends to have a stigma attached to it of fairytales and fantasy. However, it is actually an ancient pseudoscience created in the third millennium BCE to explain why certain phenomena occurred. Ancient peoples desperately searched for a pattern that would provide them with an explanation for catastrophic events. What they found was that the stars held the answer. ...
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Male to female friend on TCAT bus: A chicken can definitely eat an owl.
Friend: No way! Owls eat chickens. They eat anything! The only way a chicken could eat an owl was if it was a baby owl.
Apparently, the friend was right.
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By: Anna Ancona
It’s that time of year again! Yes, I’m talking about prelims. Forget O-week, forget homecoming…Everyone knows the first set of prelims are everyone’s favorite back to school activity!
Not.
Sources in Gannett say that Prelim Fever, a disease fairly common among Cornell undergraduates, is particularly rampant this year. Not only that, but the s...
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Join Jill's Legacy on September 25th at the Cornell Plantations for the first Jog for Jill Cornell in Honor of Ingrid Nunez to raise money and awareness for Lung Cancer. Registration for the event will begin at 10am and shotgun is at 11am.
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Only in Ithaca can a “pedestrian mall” boast shops and cafes with names like House of Shalimar, Ithaca Hemp Company, and Maté Factor (to name a few) all in a mere two blocks of hippie heaven. Home to the largest human peace sign ever assembled, the first local currency system ever created in the United States, and the North American seat of the Dalai Lama, Ithaca is ...
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Springtime is here, and as Ithaca goes through its awkward transition into warmer weather (seriously, can we wear normal shoes or should we don rainboots in preparation for a flash flood?), a new and more climate-appropriate wardrobe might be necessary. Yet after a disappointing trip to the mall and a glance through Urban Outfitters, shoppers in Ithaca might feel as though...
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I'm convinced that the Cornell campus is an entirely different animal once the sun finally decides to come out. People dress quite ambitiously despite 50 degree temperatures, hordes of people crash the Arts Quad for a game of frisbee or just to lie in the grass. Many students also decide to ditch the steely confines of Helen Newman and Noyes to go running outside.
As an...
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One guess as to where my travels brought me last… yup, you got it, England. London is a great place and better still because it’s the kind of city you can visit tons of times because there is just so much to do. The city is littered with tourist attractions from all the obvious spots whose pictures manage to permeate the front of nearly every postcard (think Big Be...
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I have always wanted to go to Belgium. I have no idea why because it’s really not a place you hear much about. And it’s supposedly rather small and not all too populated (at least not by western European standards). So what I’m really saying is – I have long had the desire to visit what tourists have more or less deemed a no-go. But I will not be swayed by ...
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Jon Zucker ’14, one of the fledgling members of the improvisational comedy group, The Whistling Shrimp, has recently taken his talents to YouTube to express his natural ability as a humorist. Under the username J0NZucker, he has posted numerous videos of himself performing comedic songs with his acoustic guitar as well as videos of his stand-up acts. His satirical approa...
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