Getting down with the Android and iOS
While Microsoft has been making noise about its upcoming Windows 8 operating system, Android and iOS are still the big players in town. If you’re getting a new tablet or smartphone, you’ll likely be choosing between one of...
Getting down with the Android and iOS
While Microsoft has been making noise about its upcoming Windows 8 operating system, Android and iOS are still the big players in town. If you’re getting a new tablet or smartphone, you’ll likely be choosing between one of...
A Meditation on Slacktivism
It’s so easy to be a slacktivist. When you see something on Facebook or Twitter that moves you or interest you, you can re-post, like a status, type a hashtag within seconds. Maybe you don’t consider it activism; the term...
Voices
Dear Grinnell, We have something to say. Are you listening? It’s 11:57 a.m. and you are walking into the Dining Hall with a couple hundred other students, who loop in a single-file line around a pile of disbanded...
The winds of change, finally
So the turbines cometh. To which I say: It’s about damn time. In the past decade, Iowa has become the national leader in wind energy development, surpassing California and second only to Texas in total MW installed wind...
Building a better SHACS
Two years ago, students seeking counseling services hopped in the Health Center minivan and took a ride across town for each appointment. The College provided them with eight sessions at Poweshiek Mental Health, regardless...
Computer crawl
One of the pitfalls of using a school computer is the lack of consistency between machines. On your own computer, you can take the time to make it yours—changing the desktop background, installing the applications you want,...
Tilting at windmills
For as long as current S&B staff members can remember, there’s been talk of constructing windmills to carry over 80% of our electricity consumption. The project started in 1996 under the supervision of Russell K....
Vote for SEG!
Vote early, vote often for the Social Entrepreneurs of Grinnell (SEG), who were nominated yesterday for the White House’s Campus Champions of Change Challenge. SEG, Grinnell’s student-run micro-financing group,...
Are you a pc? A mac? A lolcat? If yes read on
There was a strip on xkcd some months back poking fun at the long-standing fight between Mac and PC users. In the issue, two users introduce themselves as a “Mac” and as a “PC”—and then reflect that since the only thing...
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