Hi! I'm the Humanities Editor here at the Wake Student Magazine. I am a junior at the University of Minnesota, majoring in African Studies and Global Studies and minoring in Art History. I write the pop culture blog titled Mildly Inappropriate.
My iPod broke the other week. I didn’t drop it. I didn’t leave it out in the cold. After a year and a half, it just stopped turning on. The little apple stopped popping up to greet me. Sixty gigabytes of music ceased to exist. Since most of that music is on my computer, CDs, or …
It was the third night of Crispin Glover’s presentation of his film What Is It? at the Oak Street Cinema, and there was a large turnout to see the eccentric actor-director in person. Vitamn Magazine and the Minnesota Film and TV Board sponsored the event. As the lights dimmed, there was a rustle of the curtain, …
Environmentalism is trendy. In an era of global warming, we Americans have managed to do what we do best: trivialize our problems. What could be more fitting than to exploit our current environmental crises for monetary gain? Corporate department stores and overpriced teen boutiques stock stylish t-shirts and bags with cutesy environmental adages, and major food companies offer “organic” and “natural” products on the supermarket shelves, all in the name of capitalism. Consumers mindlessly lap …
Many people dismiss the concept of biofuel as the energy source of the future as a radical, impractical notion. If recent developments from the award-winning Regents Professor Lanny Schmidt don’t change their minds, then nothing will. As Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota, Lanny Schmidt has made incredible progress in the journey towards the future of renewable energy. In 2004, professor Schmidt discovered a way to produce hydrogen from …