Yurina Ko

A safe space for smokers
Thu, Dec 2, 2010, 9:42pm

Smoking spaces on campus benefit smokers and non-smokers alike.

An expert on nothing
Tue, Apr 27, 2010, 6:52pm

Most undergrads aren’t experts in academic fields.

Brave new reader
Tue, Apr 13, 2010, 6:42pm

It’s heavy. It doesn’t have Flash, let alone a camera. It doesn’t allow multitask.

The Carnivore Manifesto
Tue, Mar 30, 2010, 6:47pm

Rationalists like Descartes and Kant argued that if animals are not rational, they don’t deserve our ethical concern.

The elimination of Women's History Month in March, 2110
Tue, Mar 9, 2010, 6:16pm

We can only imagine how marginal women’s literature must have been at Columbia back in those days.

The gold standard
Tue, Feb 23, 2010, 7:20pm

Just as the skating rink invites a unique type of nationalism where a collective force is entirely invested in a represented individual, our families at home root for our success in college and employment.

A romance of many dimensions
Tue, Feb 9, 2010, 6:31pm

A few weeks ago, I watched James Cameron’s newest hit, “Avatar,” in 3-D.

Frontiers of philosophy
Tue, Jan 26, 2010, 10:13pm

“Even professional scientists,” Albert Einstein remarked, “seem to me like somebody who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest.” When he said this in 1944, he was referring to a type of “independence created by philosophical insight” that scientists should consider diving into mo

There will be time
Sun, Dec 13, 2009, 6:50pm

There are simply too many books to read (or skim, at this point in the semester), too many papers to write, too many résumés to send out, and too many worries about final exams, jobs, the future, our lives, everything. All of this in what seems to be so little time.

Can’t read my poker face
Sun, Nov 29, 2009, 10:00pm

I am a liar, and surrounded by many liars, too.

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