Michigan Stadium hosted a record crowd of 113,411 this weekend at the Michigan-Michigan State “Big Chill” hockey game. The Wolverines crushed the Spartans 5-0. Winter is finally here! The New Yorker has a profile of “Shigeru Miyamoto, the man behind Mario.” The creators of South Park are trying their hands at Broadway musicals. Wikileaks defenders [...]
Yesterday the Michigan Daily had an interesting story about a study the University is conducting with the Ann Arbor Transit Authority on ways to improve transit, especially between North Campus and Central Campus. The first version of the study is out, and there are some interesting proposals: bigger AATA buses, a lightrail train system (possibly automated), or a [...]
Kevin M. Levin, one of my favorite Civil War bloggers, is also a high school Civil War teacher. He regularly asks for his students’ understanding and interpretations of what the Civil War was about and yesterday he noticed an interesting pattern: As far as I can tell there is no discernible difference between the ways in [...]
Lord here we go. The gist: Liam Neeson, who is the voice of Aslan, in the Chronicles of Narnia films, said that, for him, the lion does not just symbolize Jesus (which is what C.S. Lewis, the author, intended) but other religious prophets as well: “Aslan symbolises a Christlike figure, but he also symbolises for [...]
Editor’s Note: Introducing Liftoff, a new regular blog feature. Like our weekly Endpoint posts, Liftoff is a roundup of interesting links and headlines that we think will be important to pay attention to in the upcoming week. We hope you read and enjoy. Feel free to send us feedback or links in the comments. Nikki [...]
Ever since Wikileaks.org released its latest document dump, dubbed Cablegate, of purportedly over 250,000 classified clandestine documents, I’ve been trying to form a solid opinion on Wikileaks. It’s hard for me to fully get behind the idea, as Wikileaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange likes to say, that Wikileaks is interested only in revealing wrongdoing in extremely [...]
