If you are not familiar with the term “polyglot,” here is my definition of it: someone who has advanced knowledge and is able to communicate in multiple languages. As a polyglot myself, this definition...
For a long time, Oct. 11 was one of my least favorite days of the year. Not because it is my mom’s birthday, but because it was National Coming Out Day, and I was stuck hopelessly in the closet with...
This weekend, hackers took over the library for Kent Hack Enough (KHE) – a 36-hour long hackathon where students built everything from games to automated coffee machines to compete for prizes.The event...
Our daughter Nancy had come up with some compelling reasons why she shouldn't accept Harvard University's invitation to become a member of the class of 1989."Harvard's too big," she had reasoned. "Everyone...
Photography can be a catalyst for some great relationships. Often you can tell how much one person cares for another by the way they position themselves when they’re asked to take a picture together.But...
Apparently, while promoting her upcoming film "Suffragette," Meryl Streep and her co-stars thought a quote spoken by her character, Emmeline Pankhurst, was totally within the realm of acceptable public...
This is probably a bit early, but it is the month of October, and this can be advice for the entire month. However, what I am about to say is pertinent information that could be used for any weekend.Kent...
California Gov. Jerry Brown passed a measure on Monday authorizing assisted-suicide among terminally ill patients.The law states physicians are allowed to provide patients with a lethal prescription. Patients...
When students think of a good time, it usually involves a substance like alcohol. But college students are using one drug almost exclusively for work, not play. It’s called Adderall, an attention deficit...
Fantasy football, once a fun activity done amongst family, friends and co-workers, has slowly crept into the realm of major monetary implications. Earlier this week, news broke that a new form of insider...
WASHINGTON The Supreme Court on Monday kicked off its 2015 term with an argument over a Northern California woman who lost both legs in an Austrian railroad accident.And with that gruesome set of facts,...
The NFL has turned into one of the largest and most profitable corporations in the world. A survey conducted by the Harris Poll proclaimed the NFL the most popular league for its 30 consecutive year. Although...
