And I’m not talking about Kelsey. In a recent interview, Noam Chomsky, a linguistics professor at MIT, argued that we can blame Twitter for the langu-apocalypse – the demise of the English written word. “An awful lot of communication [today] is extremely rapid, very shallow communication. Text messaging, Twitter…[they] erode normal human relations and make [...]

I’m sure there are really moving biochemical explanations or manipulative marketing schemes that quantify and model this phenomenon to ends that satisfy both biologists and marketing consultants. But, what about when you don’t have the ability to collect all the data points necessary for a biological model (pheromone levels, body language, and other environmental factors) [...]

A lot of these predictions have been tough to make in the past few weeks; there is so much parity in the NFL this season. Even the winless St. Louis Rams beat the New Orleans Saints this past weekend.  With that in mind, I have to be careful whom I pick, knowing that the great [...]

The only bad thing about football Saturday in Ann Arbor is that when you go to the actual game you will be missing the other games going on around the country. Some might say it’s no big deal but for college football crazies like me and many others, we would like to know every part of [...]

I wanted to address a rather light issue, but I think an important one all the same: Kim Kardishian’s divorce. While the pending divorce seems like a total joke to many reality TV show haters and unbelievably devastating to the reality TV junkies, I find myself caught in between. While I have inevitably watched a few episodes [...]

A couple of days ago, a friend and I took great pleasure and amusement in reminiscing on favorite family Halloween traditions. [...] However, Halloween is not without its fair share of gloom (in more ways than one).