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(11/28/16 1:38am)
This November, I went to the movie theater to watch two of the biggest premieres of the year: "Doctor Strange," the 14th movie of the Marvel movie universe, and "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," the ninth in the "Harry Potter" franchise. Universe building is the new vogue in Hollywood, and studios are jumping on the bandwagon to build and combine fan bases.
(11/14/16 12:17am)
If you spend any amount of time in the produce section of a grocery store, you are bound to run into fruit and vegetables with the colorful Dole label. The brand is one of the most recognizable in the industry, and it is the market leader in almost every product. It sells the most iceberg lettuce, celery, cauliflower and fruit cups in North America, as well as selling more than a third of all bananas we buy. But, this triumph of American industry has not always been a story of success. Dole’s beginnings are not the uplifting narrative of the scrappy entrepreneur conquering all of the odds and making it big. No, the history of Dole is enough to make you never want to eat fruit again. It is a story of military coups, destroyed government records and poisoning its own work force.
(11/06/16 6:09pm)
For many of my friends, Halloweekend was the most anticipated time of the year. The festival of frights on the last day of October is preceded by nightly parties where it is perfectly normal to see a zombie joking and laughing with Harley Quinn while Bob from "Bob’s Burgers" brings everyone drinks. But Halloween is not only about partying or dressing up, it’s also about candy. Specifically, chocolate.
(10/26/16 11:53pm)
I imagine that, like me, many of you are feeling disillusioned with the presidential election. It is pretty natural at this point in the race to feel campaign fatigue. We’ve been inundated with advertisements, speeches and debates from the candidates for almost two years now. However, this election cycle feels particularly exhausting. Both major parties have drummed up the two most disliked candidates in modern history giving the country a Catch-22 so difficult that our president will not be the person we like the most but the person we hate the least.
(10/19/16 11:35pm)
What mayor wouldn’t want his or her city to be the next Silicon Valley? The area has reached an almost mythical level for all things innovative and is held up as the gold standard for high technology companies around the world. Local government officials dream of a similar entrepreneurial environment that creates jobs, new businesses and increased revenue streams in the form of taxes on young high wage workers. In an effort to fulfill this dream, governments tend to fund research efforts within their cities. Columbia is no exception.
(10/11/16 9:22pm)
This summer I decided that while not working or meeting up with friends from home, I would watch movies that I'd been told I "had to see." One of these films was Stanley Kubrick’s classic, "2001: A Space Odyssey." While I found the three-hour spectacle to be a bit ponderous, I found one character in particular extremely thought-provoking.
(10/04/16 9:04pm)
Imagine it’s Friday night, and you are at the grocery store preparing for the game on Saturday. It’s an away game, and you are helping to plan a party to watch the game with some friends. You decide that you are going to make your homemade guacamole that your friends love. So you go to the grocery store to get what you need and make a beeline for the produce section to get the most important ingredient, avocados. You pick a couple that you find the most appealing and notice that they have a sticker on them saying "Product of Mexico." You think to yourself that you couldn’t be more authentic than that, right? Would you change your mind if I told you that by buying those avocados you just gave money to Mexican drug cartels?
(09/26/16 12:27am)
A little more than a week ago, in my hometown of Pittsburgh, Uber unveiled their revolutionary fleet of self-driving cars for commercial use. We’ve seen autonomous cars on a smaller scale before. Innovations like automatic parking and brake assist have dipped our toes into the uncharted waters of letting go of the wheel and having the machine do the work. Tesla, which has frequently been on the cutting edge of automobile innovation, has already created technology that lets their cars drive themselves on the highway. Cars that drive themselves aren’t science fiction anymore; they are quickly becoming a reality we can’t avoid. Uber plans to replace all 1.5 million of their drivers with self-driving cars, and Pittsburgh is their test run. It remains to be seen what will happen for society if the big car companies begin seriously moving toward switching over their car line-ups to the newly dubbed "autos."
(09/19/16 1:57am)
As a business student, I’ve always felt that "big business" gets a bad rap in popular culture. Evil Corporation X is a common choice of antagonist in small independent movies to mega summer blockbusters alike. Comic book villains like Lex Luthor portray businessmen as shady, ethically deficient people in organizations that are willing to turn a blind eye to questionable and in some cases blatantly illegal activity in order to get want they want. Sometimes it's money, other times it's power, but the end result is always bad for us. The little guy.