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Monthly Archives: August, 2010

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Digital vs Analog

Plush’s recording artist, Liam Hayes, on the pros and cons of modern recording technology.

Digital Locks

It’s now legal to “jailbreak” your iPhone, which means with a simple click of a link you can open your iPhone up to a whole world of apps that have been “disapproved” by Apple.

Net Neutrality Peril?

Net neutrality has always been integral to the Internet, but not exactly the topic of our dinner conversations — so why now?

Summer Camp @ SAIC

When SAIC's grads and undergrads go home for the summer its classrooms are occupied by a different kind of scholar.

Afghan Women & that Time cover

Time Magazine is not the first to use women’s rights as a bargaining chip in wars waged on behalf of the U.S. in the Middle East.

The First Year Experience

With a new title and a more specific focus, SAIC's First Year Program becomes its own department.

Profile: Elissa Tenny

As SAIC’s incoming provost, Tenny says she is “the keeper of the academic vision,” a vision that has been challenged over the last few years of administration changes.

Audio Interview with Werner Herzog

"[San Diego] was a place where things seemed to be serene, where there’s the ocean and surface and palm trees, and clean beaches, and some sort of a horror slowly creeps up with you in this kind of environment. That’s what I found fascinating."

The Next Great Amateur

Bravo’s reality show "Work of Art: The Next Great Artist" applies the amateur competition formula to contemporary art.

See America First

H.C. Westermann at the Art Institute of Chicago

Time to Put Down the Bottle

Rethinking drinking: bottled water vs. higher quality public water systems.