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Don’t Use That Tone With Me: IBM’s Watson Analyzes Your Emails (Fast Company)
From winning Jeopardy! to healthcare recommendations, IBM’s Watson computer is clearly multi-talented. Recently, IBM released a new way to utilize Watson’s cognitive computing: analyzing the tone of...
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Hari Kondabolu ’04 on the Ins and Outs of Joke Telling (New York Times Magazine)
Hari Kondabolu ’04. Photo by Karsten Moran ’05. Every joke is “a work in progress,” says stand-up comedian Hari Kondabolu ’04. He shares insight on the development of his funny bits — and some advice,...
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Interactive: Music Generated by Planet Orbits (Wired)
In cool things on the internet, here is a flash site that lets you create music using the different orbits of the planets. Featured in Wired, this solar-system-generated music box lets you adjust the...
View ArticleAdvice Through the Ages: Words of Wisdom to Our Younger Selves (CBC)
“If I knew then, what I know now….” Well, yes, life may have been different, but those challenges and failures are part of the journey. Treat yourself to this little gem of a video, in which people of...
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Top Rated Movies In Each State
Some of these are obvious…you would expect The Godfather to be the #1 movie in New York and Casino to be tops in Nevada. But there are a few surprises here, including the state with the...
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The Problem with Movies about Geniuses (New Yorker)
New Yorker contributor Richard Brody explores the stumbling blocks of the biopic genre in a review of “Pawn Sacrifice,” a new drama based on the life of chess champion Bobby Fischer. While dramas seek...
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Kary Antholis ’84, Brunswick’s Elizabeth Strout Behind Emmy-winning ‘Olive...
Kary Antholis ’84 at 2011 Scholarship Appreciation Luncheon in Thorne Hall. Kary Antholis ’84, president of HBO Miniseries, got a shout-out at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards, when the cast of Olive...
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Why are Hollywood Portrayals of Money So Negative? (The Economist)
From Leonardo DiCaprio’s role in the 2013 film The Wolf of Wall Street to Michael Douglas’ character in 1987’s Wall Street, it seems Hollywood loves to hate big business. As The Economist notes,...
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‘Switch Witch’ Author and Creator Lara Spear Riley ’97 on ‘Shark Tank’ Tonight
Just in time for Halloween, Lara Spear Riley ’97, creator of the children’s book Switch Witch and its doll companion, will appear on the popular ABC show Shark Tank Friday, October 23, 2015. Spear...
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Friggatriskaidekaphobia and Other Factoids about Friday the 13th...
The oft-quoted “bad things come in threes” chestnut may resonate with the superstitious on this third and final Friday the 13th of 2015. The International Business Times runs down 13 trivia facts...
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A Creative Fix to Deteriorating Audio Reels? Bake Them. Seriously. (The...
“It’s been nearly 40 years since the first Star Wars film was released, and the audio archive is showing its age,” writes Adrienne Lafrance for The Atlantic. Over time, the bindings of magnetic audio...
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‘Making a Murderer': Netflix’s ‘Most Significant Show Ever’ (Forbes)
Netflix co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings ’83 has another huge hit on his hands with the documentary series Making a Murderer. If you haven’t seen Netflix’s juggernaut hit Making a Murderer, which is...
View ArticleHayley Nicholas ’17 Recalls Role in David Bowie Commercial
While the world mourns the passing of superstar David Bowie, at least one Bowdoin student can claim to have worked with him. As a child, Hayley Nicholas ’17 appeared with Bowie in an ad promoting his...
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International House Hunters Erin Carney ’05 and Peter Durning ’05 on HGTV...
After the birth of their son, Jude, Erin Carney ’05 and her husband Peter Durning ’05 knew they needed more space and a different lifestyle than New York City could afford. So begins tonight’s episode...
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Ken Burns H’91 To Speak on Race in America
The National Endowment for the Humanities has selected documentary filmmaker Ken Burns to give its annual Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. This is the highest honor the federal government confers...
View ArticleActivist DeRay Mckesson ’07 Talks MLK, White Privilege (Late Show with...
Activist DeRay Mckesson ’07 was a guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Monday, when he spoke about the Black Lives Matter movement and Campaign Zero, a platform that looks to end police...
View ArticleAcademy Member Dighton Spooner Talks Racism in Hollywood
In the wake of a field of Oscar nominations containing no people of color, we sit down with Dighton Spooner, senior associate director of Bowdoin Career Planning, who is also a member of both the...
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One of America’s ‘Funniest Writers’ Coming to Bowdoin (Maine Sunday Telegram)
The Faculty Room atop Massachusetts Hall is bound to be pretty crowded Tuesday evening when Paul Beatty, “one of the funniest writers in America,” stops by to read from his new book. It’s part of the...
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Saturday Sports Preview
Several Bowdoin College winter sports teams are in action Saturday as the winter sports season comes to a climax. Follow all of today’s action below. Women’s Basketball – NESCAC Semifinals (4:00 p.m.)...
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Killeen’s ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’ Sets Shakespeare on a 1960s Campus
Rehearsing Love’s Labour’s Lost Assistant Professor of Theater Abigail Killeen has an original take on “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” one of Shakespeare’s best-loved comedies. It’s a setting, she says, which...
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