October 29, 2017
What better way to say farewell than with a slew of costume pictures from this year s (coming) Halloween? Happy Halloween 2017! From Ethan Siegel and Starts With A Bang. Keep looking to the Universe. And we ll have a lifetime of wonderful things to still explore.
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October 28, 2017 Delay is the deadliest form of denial. -C. Northcote Parkinson
Every massless particle and wave travels at the speed of light when it moves through a vacuum. Over a distance of 130 million light years, the gamma rays and gravitational waves emitted by merging neutron stars arrived offset by a…
October 27, 2017
“On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays?” –Victor Francis Hess
Courtesy of John Taylor and Carter Hayek What I ve come to realize through studying and doing wastewater-based epidemiology, it is the absolute truth, he adds. Poop doesn t lie.
The eight-minute documentary, produced last fall by students
John Taylor and
Carter Hayek, proves the catchphrase, as it chronicles the university s efforts to track campus spread of coronavirus by testing wastewater from student dorms. The testing effort, led by Pepper, helped stop at least one COVID-19 outbreak during the first week of fall classes, and the success was widely covered in national media. Solution Number Two premiered last week as part of the School of Theatre, Film and Television s annual What s Up, Docs? screening event featuring short documentary films produced by Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Arts students. Instead of hosting the usual in-person premiere at The Loft Cinema, the school in the College of Fine Arts partnered with the local theater to debut this year s
Advertisement: Working from a laughably bad script which he co-wrote, the film takes us to England in the 1600s, where a plague has swept through the land and witch hunts disrupt the days. Grace (Charlotte Kirk), after losing her husband (Joe Anderson) thanks to a drink out of the wrong ale mug, refuses the advances of her landlord (Steven Waddington). Therefore, she is a witch, and they must burn her. Marshall tries to take you back to these dirty times, but his film comes off as more of a
Monty Python and the Holy Grail rip-off. The plague and witch hunt scenes ring of Eric Idle and his “Bring out the dead!” cart, and cries of “Burn her!” remind of John Cleese bringing up very small rocks as things that also float in water.
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