Over 400 years ago, William Shakespeare posed an important philosophical question, delivered through the young and confused Juliet Capulet – “What’s in a name?” The pre-pubescent...
Most people probably don’t think of reading and playing video games as being on the same plane in terms of their entertainment value. From an early age we are conditioned to think that books are...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an international coalition composed of the world’s top scientists and climatologists. The panel conducts regular assessments on the state of...
Today Congress voted down a bill that would have given President Obama authority to expedite negotiations in the latest international trade agreement, called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The bill...
The Chronicle newsroom. It’s been a great three years working on the photo staff as a photographer, the assistant photo editor and finally as Photo Editor. The newsroom is dead from 9 to 5 p.m. but is...
I would like to take a moment to address every typo in The Chronicle that I didn’t catch in the proofing pages this year: Ahem. I'm grateful for every last one of them.
Every typo is embarrassing....
The schism between creationism and evolution has become so pronounced in our culture that many people consider the ideas incompatible. Proponents on both sides of the false divide are so uncompromisingly...
It is time to start moving out of the dorms, and most students have a lot of work to do. They’ve got to help their friends patch the holes in the walls from the time they played roller hockey in...
It’s no secret that our understanding and opinions of things are always changing — after all, there was once a time that original Coca-Cola contained small amounts of cocaine, and doctors assured...
Of the $3.9 trillion projected for federal spending in fiscal year 2015, a mere $17.5 billion — less than one percent — would be invested in the national space program. To put it in perspective, we...
