It’s a truth universally acknowledged that Marvel dominates the superhero genre. The Avengers in 2012 grossed $1 billion dollars in nineteen days and is the twelfth film ever to reach the milestone. Since 2011, Marvel Studios has put out one film a year, more often than not releasing two films in a single year. This week, The Avengers: […]
R E S P E C T Find out what it means to me. It means: equality. Feminism, it’s a scary word: why? Because a lot people assume that comes with man-hating. Do I hate men? Quite the contrary, I just dislike that as a woman, I am not always offered the same opportunities […]
Every 13.3 minutes, somebody in America takes their own life. Suicide. It’s something we joke about sometimes and something we avoid talking about sometimes. It’s a dark topic, but this Sunday (10/26/14), at the “Out of Darkness Walk for Suicide Prevention” in Manhattan, activists, loved ones, and survivors are uniting to emerge from the darkness […]
They giggled and shared joy as if their connection ran deep. “What year are you guys in?” Him: “Senior” Her: “Sophomore” Him: “goddamn” Her: “You didn’t know that? Him: “No….” [learn_more] [/learn_more]
As a gamer you could spend forty minutes or forty hours with a game and still have an idea about whether you like the game or not. On the occasion that you might discuss the game casually with a friend you might say something like “the story sucks” or “what’s up with the camera angle, […]
If I told you that we would see the Kansas City Royals and the San Francisco Giants in the World Series before this season started, what would you have said? You would probably call me crazy. You would point at the Los Angeles Dodgers, Los Angeles Angels, Baltimore Orioles and Detroit Tigers and tell me […]
Walking through campus, it is almost impossible to find someone without a cell phone, computer, or tablet glued to his face. Except this man. Instead, he sat on a bench, leaning forward with his elbows to his knees. He held his hands together on his chin, and his eyes searched the sky as […]
” But the fact that 2000 years ago someone thought like Marcus Aurelius? It makes you wonder why we can’t have that sort of leadership now.”
You’ve seen it before. Maybe you use it all the time. Maybe you haven’t touched it since high school or college. But it is likely that, early in your education, the = sign showed up in some nasty column of homework problems. In that context, “=” seems like a prompt for the answer.
