Posted on November 2, 2015, at 5:40 p.m. by Kristen Ellis. In our society’s long-standing battle against seemingly harmless food groups, gluten is the new enemy. Celebrities such as Gwyneth Paltrow and Miley Cyrus swear by gluten-free dieting, and a walk down the grocery store aisle reveals
Posted on Oct. 30, 2015, at 6 p.m. by Katie Gatti. Taylor Shelnutt covered the changes in Google’s new logo several weeks ago, but two months after its advent seems an appropriate time to reflect on what this change truly means for the world’s biggest
Posted on Oct. 30, 2015, at 12 p.m. by Madalyn Atherton and Sally Immel. Mark Twain said, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness,” and millennials seem to be whole-heartedly embracing his ideal. There has been a 130 percent increase in study abroad participation
Posted on Oct. 28, 2015 at 7 p.m. by Luke Thomas. PR and persuasion are two peas in a pod. And I just used it on you. Alliteration (the repeating of initial consonant sounds) is a rhetorical device. While that might trigger flashbacks of AP
Posted on October 26, 2015, at 6:45 p.m. by Kristen Ellis. If you’ve checked your social sites in the last week or two, chances are you’ve heard of a Florida woman who recently drove home drunk and broadcast a live-stream of the entire affair on
Published October 25, 2015, 5:00 p.m. by Tatum Roessler. Upon his first visit to the United States, Pope Francis “broke the Internet.” He dominated everyone’s news feeds with Pope Mobile geo-filters, live tweets, Instagrams and heavy digital media coverage. Thousands of attendees captured the Papal
Posted on October 23, 2015, 1:30 p.m. by Taylor Shelnutt. What’s better than a McMuffin and hash browns for breakfast? A McMuffin and hash browns for lunch. And dinner. And maybe a midnight snack. McDonald’s launch of the long-awaited #AllDayBreakfast on Oct. 6 brought shouts
Posted on Oct. 21, 2015 at 1:30 p.m. by Luke Thomas. If someone told you that your entire way of doing things was about to change, you might feel the tendrils of anxiety closing around you faster than you’d like. Stress, after all, is the
Posted on October 20, 2015, at 3:30 p.m. by Mackenzie Lyng. “Text me when you get home.” We have all heard this common goodbye, whether hearing it from a friend or saying it ourselves. But what if you could virtually track a friend’s trip home,
Posted on October 19, 2015, at 3:00 p.m. by Kristen Ellis. Recent research shows that humans are becoming increasingly unable to concentrate on long or wordy pieces of information and, even more problematically, to focus deeply on the information they can consume. Something is happening
