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A gaunt, bald figure in a loose-fitting shirt and baggy plaid sweatpants posed in front of a camera with his new guitar. He grinned, in spite of the life-threatening tumor inside his abdomen. The tumor rotted cells throughout his body, absorbing the nutrients from his food and encasing his organs, trying to shut them down. Andrew Kippley, a 15-year-old youth from Farmington, Minnesota, had it tough for a teenager. While most teens his age dealt …
There’s a reason why Dokapon Kingdom is called “The Friendship Destroying Game.” The latest game from Japanese developer Atlus will cause players to curse, take controllers away from each other and, in some cases, may cause fist fights. It also takes the party game genre into a whole new level of fun.
Think of Dokapon Kingdom as a sort of Mario Party-type RPG. Up to four players battle it out in the Kingdom of Dokapon, saving …
He stands five feet, five inches tall. He weighs just over 100 pounds. His blonde hair is slowly growing back, covering his once-bald head. Clothes that used to fit him now loosely hang on his frame. His eyes become livelier, less sunken with each passing day. He can’t bench press 300 pounds, but he’s one of the toughest guys in Minnesota. He’s thrown down with Death and knocked it out. He’s beaten cancer before. He’s …
Blending the lines between play and musical, the Guthrie’s latest production “Old Wicked Songs” may get you to turn off the TV and check out a real theatrical production. There is no other play in the Twin Cities where music speaks as much as the actors do. The cast is comprised of two top-notch actors and a stage, reminding the audience of the importance of music among politics and current events.
“It’s a beautiful, funny and …
Most college students have difficulty trying to balance their checkbooks. The students in Professors Sean and Meg Emery’s class do a bit more than that. They balance themselves on chairs, ropes, and even a trapeze. One student juggles while a partner sits on his shoulders. Another practices forward rolls and leaps on a mat. Yet another …
Columbine. Rocori. Red Lake. Virginia Tech. University of Texas. When we think of these words, we think of the tragedies they represent. We think of the sadness and despair caused by individuals who spread their pain and fear across our country in a vast media blitz of bullets. Since 1999, high school and college students haven’t …
Each of us has incriminating photos from when we were toddlers. However, thanks to a psychological condition called “infantile amnesia,” we have the comfort of not remembering what embarrassing things we said or did. This condition, which isn’t true amnesia, is the explanation scientists give for not retaining childhood memories. It also explains why humans can’t …
Dolphins will never be able to speak English, or any other human verbal language for that matter, but that doesn’t mean we won’t understand them anytime soon. Dolphins are incredibly intelligent animals that can communicate at least as well as any comatose college student early in the morning.Dolphins use two different acoustic forms of communication, echolocation and whistling. Dolphins use echolocation—very short bursts of low-frequency clicks—to figure out their surroundings. They blast these clicks in …
Mankind has achieved great things with the use of science. Ed Cussler, a professor in the Chemical Engineering department at the University of Minnesota, has achieved great things too. He’s written several books, published over 200 articles, and holds a number of patents in his chosen field. He’s also filled a swimming pool with thickener and tested how it affects swimmers’ speeds. It’s this particular experiment that Cussler will be discussing during the latest edition …