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Dazzle Your Friends With Oscar Trivia (Digg)
The 86th Academy Awards, hosted by Ellen DeGeneres, will air tomorrow night on ABC, which means there’s just one more day to knock these nominees for Best Picture off your list: “American Hustle,”...
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Creative Energy: Acclaimed Writers at Bowdoin
From left: Russ Rymer, Susan Faludi, Sarah Braunstein, and Jaed Coffin (Photo: James Marshall) Right now Bowdoin is a writing powerhouse. No fewer than four illustrious writers – Susan Faludi, Russ...
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Tony Molinari ’96: Stunt Double (Huff Post)
Acting can be tough, especially when the script calls for a dangerous action scene. Good thing the stars can call on stunt doubles willing to do the scary stuff—folks who look just enough like the real...
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Filming the Sea: David Conover at Bowdoin
Award-winning documentary filmmaker David Conover ’83, who is slated as Bowdoin’s Coastal Studies Scholar for 2014-2015, comes to campus this week to present an April 2 lecture in Kresge Auditorium,...
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Amernet Quartet, Calloway to Premiere Work by Bowdoin’s Shende
Shende’s song cycle is set to Julie Gard’s prose poem series “Thin Bits of Evidence,” in which each poem is tied to one of the objects above. Mezzo-soprano Rachel Calloway and the Amernet String...
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Horseless Carriages For NY’s Central Park? (The New York Times)
If animal rights activists have their way, the era of horse-drawn buggy rides through New York’s Central Park could soon be a thing of the past. But then how will romantic couples and other sightseers...
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Boyhood Before Your Eyes—A Film That Took 12 Years To Make (Flavorwire)
Actor Ellar Coltrane was seven years old when he began what would be a twelve-year process of portraying “Mason” in Richard Linklater’s new film, Boyhood. Rather than use lookalikes to tell the story...
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Faverón Patriau’s Acclaimed Novel To Be Released
Gustavo Faverón Patriau’s debut novel The Antiquarian, first published in Spanish in 2011 to effusive acclaim, continues to gain momentum with a suite of new translations lined up for the upcoming...
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Apple: Branded For Simplicity, Succumbing to Complexity (Fortune)
When Apple’s iTunes was launched in 2001, it was a tool to organize and search music by artist, genre, and other similarly straightforward categories. Today, iTunes organizes your music, TV shows and...
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Google Just Got Even Better (Huffington Post)
You don’t know what you’ve been missing. The Huffington Post has compiled 14 Google search tricks that turn the site into a dictionary, currency converter, jokester and more. Did you know that you can...
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Novel by Bowdoin’s Faverón Patriau Lauded by New York Times
A “delightfully macabre” neo-gothic psychological thriller, Gustavo Faverón Patriau’s debut novel, The Antiquarian, “has hundreds of intricate pieces” and is “intelligently conceived and well...
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Where Do Those Brand Names Really Come From? (Slate)
Names like Sprite and Verizon automatically conjure images in our minds of fizzy beverages and cell phones. But why “Sprite”? Why “Verizon”? Subtle and strategic reasoning goes into brand names like...
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Pound Sign? Hashtag? Octothorp? (The Atlantic)
As of last week, the Oxford English Dictionary officially recognizes the word “hashtag,” made popular by Twitter and also functional on Instagram and Facebook. On social media, the hashtag (#) is used...
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Bowdoin Team Heads to Brazil for Robot Soccer World Cup
Now that the FIFA World Cup contenders have finished battling it out, another international soccer competition is just getting started in Brazil — only this time, the players aren’t human. Five...
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Can Money Buy Happiness? (The Atlantic)
Spend money on experiences, not things, says traditional wisdom. But think about it: some goods can too be “experiential.” Imagine you buy (and subsequently learn how to play very well) a guitar: you...
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What One Man Found When He Liked Everything on Facebook (Wired)
After liking everything that came up in his newsfeed for 48 straight hours, Mat Honan found, surprisingly, a whole lot of content that he disliked. There is a specific type of Facebook content...
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New Research Vessel Joins the Bowdoin Coastal Studies Fleet
With big expansions underway in Coastal Studies facilities and programming, Bowdoin has made a valuable acquisition: the R/V A.O.K., a 28-foot research vessel with a twin outboard hull. Donated...
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Bowdoin Classmates Antholis and Putnam Team Up For ‘Olive Kitteridge’ Sneak...
HBO President of Miniseries Kary Antholis ’84 teamed up with his Bowdoin classmate and JFK Library Director Thomas Putnam ’84 Tuesday evening to treat Bostonians and several visiting Mainers—including...
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Ying Quartet Teaches Compelling Lessons to Student Writers
“We were face-to-face with Beethoven,” writes Russ Rymer, Bowdoin’s Visiting Writer in Residence. “[The Ying Quartet] took us through the first movement of the Opus 74 quartet … teasing apart its...
View ArticleWatch and Learn: Wrap a Gift in 15 Seconds
Steal a page, or a sheet of wrapping paper, as the case may be, from Japan’s Takashimaya Department Store, and learn how you’ve been wrapping gifts all wrong all these years.
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