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As we wrap up our week of op-eds dedicated to science education in America, it feels like we should have some grandiose assessment to make about the state of science. Some sort of condemnation or proclamation should be issued, something that tells us exactly where we are and where we should go in the future.
Everyone knows the five stages of grief, but who knew they apply so well to a single person on Valentine's Day? The Daily Cardinal Arts staff presents the Five Stages of Singlehood with a song and movie to get you through each lonely stage.
It's been almost a month now since the renowned French filmmaker Eric Rohmer died. Rohmer's legacy is more or less uncontested: The consensus opinion is that he was responsible for some of the smartest, subtlest and, above all else, talkiest films ever made.
Late last week, scientists at CERN announced they would be turning the Large Hadron Collider back on. The world's largest physics experiment broke down shortly after its first test runs in 2008 and has only been tested once since then. Unfortunately, the LHC will operate at half power for the next two years before being turned off yet again for another year's worth of repairs.
The evolution-versus-creation-in-school debate has been raging for years. Some say religion should not be taught in schools. Some say students should not be exposed to material that conflicts with the religious beliefs their parents are attempting to instill in them. Still others say that both should be taught so that students are exposed to both sides of the argument and can make a decision for themselves. The debate could be boiled down to creation and the Big Bang Theory, since evolution only addresses what has happened after the appearance of life on earth. But the real debate should be more general: religion versus science.
""Up in the Air,"" a film about Ryan Bingham (George Clooney), who fires people for a living while in pursuit of reaching 10 million frequent flyer miles, is one of this Oscar season's most talked about films. It has been noted widely for addressing issues concerning the recession, particularly that of unemployment. However, many fail to recognize that before it became the latest critical and commercial success from writer/director Jason Reitman (""Juno,"" ""Thank You For Smoking""), it was a novel written in 2001 by Walter Kirn before 9/11, before the war in Iraq and before the financial collapse.
As the cliché goes, the whole is often more than the sum of its parts. We as humans are not our biochemistry, a maze of neurons or our limbs. In art, the gestalt is the ultimate goal, the pinnacle of artistic vision. Pit Er Pat's latest release sits at the opposite end of the spectrum. At times truly endearing and mature, and at others hypnotically tiresome, The Flexible Entertainer fails to appropriately coagulate into any sort of discernable whole.
Somewhere in the world, there is a very happy 13-year-old Evangelical Christian boy. After years of struggling to find a happy compromise between Bible-thumping religiosity and the bullet-riddled fight scenes of modern action flicks, Hollywood has finally melded the two together in the most maladroitly literal way possible. With the release of ""Legion,"" hyperactive Sunday school graduates have finally realized their ultimate wet dream fantasy: angels fighting with machine guns.
Anything bugging you recently? Perhaps it's too early to ask that question since we're just one week into the new semester. But even minor stressors may disrupt a well-kept daily schedule and cast a shadow over your bright mood in the long run. Meeting a professional counselor just seems like making a mountain out of a mole hill. Friends, on the other hand, are already too busy riding in the fast lane of college life. That is how SPILL, an e-mail-based peer listening group, came to fill the void. Although SPILL does not provide any forms of counseling services, it offers a novel approach to the mental health of college students.
Eleven months ago, the Denver Pioneers entered the Kohl Center for a home series against the Badgers with a lot on the line. At the time, Wisconsin, Denver and North Dakota were fighting for the WCHA's regular season title and the MacNaughton Cup, and in two of their final three series of the 2008-'09 season, the Badgers would face both of those teams.
With all of the decade retrospectives that went on last month, I started wondering about what the biggest sports controversies were of the past ten years.
A campus building with one of the most unknown histories at UW-Madison is set to be demolished within the next month.
I firmly believe the greatest gift you ever received did not come packaged. It did not have a bow or a box. It did not have a note attached. I firmly believe the greatest gift you ever received came from a teacher—perhaps many—who poured love into you in the form of education.
Why a period film set in rural Germany just prior to World War I, and why now? ""The White Ribbon,"" the latest from Austrian director Michael Haneke, has loomed large in the film community's collective consciousness for many months now (it won the Palme d'Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival). The film recently kicked off its first theatrical run here in the U.S., where Haneke is already something of an established entity—you might know him as the director of 2005's ""Caché"" or 2008's ""Funny Games."" Haneke, whose three favored vibes are grim, bleak and stern, can finally wear the crown as contemporary cinema's king of the über-serious: ""The White Ribbon"" is his most intellectually satisfying work to date.
It's always a pleasure to watch a Hollywood film that doesn't try to beat the viewer upside the head with 3-D explosions or overwhelm with more cuts than the viewer's mind knows what to do with. However, it's always a displeasure to watch a Hollywood film that flaunts an inflated sense of its own cuteness. The second of these two unwritten laws is what made director Jason Reitman's last film, ""Juno,"" so unapologetically dreadful: That movie was 95% prefab swagger and 5% self-congratulation. My intensely negative response to ""Juno"" is partly responsible for my comparatively positive response to Reitman's latest, the highly acclaimed ""Up in the Air.""
As the fall semester comes to a close, many students have begun to think about what student groups they want to join during spring semester. However, some groups on campus do not have a history as well known as others.
UW Senior Sara Schoenborn's identity is about to change. After five years, she's switching from PC to Mac.
""You're living at a time of extremism, a time of revolution / A time where there's got to be a change,"" begins The Ecstatic. An intro featuring Malcolm X speaking at Oxford University finds Mos Def comfortable in his pre-established niche as a socially conscious rapper educated enough to rep with both hard and soft intellectuals.
I was upset to read a recent Cardinal editorial depicting WISPIRG's staffing infrastructure as a misuse of segregated fees. The editorial overlooked several important points, including WISPIRG's history and methods of success and the nature of the segregated fee process in this university.
In the male-dominated universe of '00s hip-hop, Missy ""Misdemeanor"" Elliott broke through. She did so while rejecting hip-hop's submissive role for women while neither erasing her gender identity nor draining her persona of sexuality in the least. And just as significantly, she did it all with a body that was far from the fallacious female ""ideal"" that continues to be pumped into Americans' consciousnesses by male rappers' videos. Elliott emerged from the '90s with a few mostly down-tempo hits like ""The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)"" and ""She's a Bitch"" under her belt, but beginning with So Addictive, the Missy Elliott of the '00s was more club anthem-oriented. The beats were provided by pre-superstar Timbaland, a childhood friend, and Elliott's rapping was inspired and, as in ""Work It,"" occasionally done in an apparently made-up language. Plus she was capable of singing without embarrassing herself, which can't be said of Jay-Z, Eminem or most other huge '00s rappers who tried it. Her videos also did their part to keep things strangely interesting in MTV's TRL era, like in ""Pass That Dutch"" when she appears as a scarecrow and performs under a flying saucer, or the phenomenal ""Get Ur Freak On"" when her head jumps off her body via a serpentine 20-foot neck. In that song, Elliott raps, ""Ain't no stopping me / Copywritten so don't copy me."" In the '00s, no one could.
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