Check out what we’ve been talking about on our blog, All Things Consider, last week on the last Weekly Word Cloud of the school year! By: Tanya Rogovyk

Catch up on what’s been going on over the weekend. Yesterday marked the 100-year anniversary of the sinking of Titanic. Check out how the event was covered in the news in the year 1912. The rainy weather today was caused by a large storm that covered the midwest. Luckily, only one tornado out of the [...]

1. In an editorial for the Washington Post, George Will asks, should hard drugs be legalized? He cites new research that found imprisoning someone for a $200 drug transaction can cost society $100,000 for a three-year sentence. 2. A new craze is sweeping across China: English tattoos. Though just like tattoos of incorrect Chinese characters here in the West, a [...]

I don’t know about everyone else, but I am ready to close the books and head for the hills.  My brain is fired and eager to experience what I’ve missed about the world over the past nine months.  It seems fitting to explore National Geographic’s Best Spring Trips of 2012.  I have pulled out a [...]

So, you know how people say, “Don’t get a tattoo, you will regret it”? Well now, Nokia has created a whole new technology which will assist you in regretting it even more – a vibrating tattoo! That’s right, a tattoo that vibrates to alert you when your phone is ringing. I can just picture Mean Girls [...]

Signs dictate action. If we see a green traffic light, we know that means we can go. If we see a “please seat yourself” hanging board upon walking into a restaurant, we know that we don’t need to wait for the maitre d’ to assign us our table. Visual images, in this way, dictate the world [...]