Twitter’s Musical Magic

 This weekend I attended a local music festival called Rifflandia. This epic four-day event featured over 170 artists, performing at fourteen venues all around the city—everyone from mainstage bigwigs like Courtney Love to beloved local acts that draw a small but dedicated crowd. On Thursday night, while watching the next band set up and do […]
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Yahoo!’s New Logo: Foolish or Fiendish?

 Last week Yahoo announced it had a new logo, the first change to the search engine’s branding in eighteen years. Dropping the youthful font of its previous iteration, Yahoo’s new logo is a more refined, narrow sans serif font in a darker purple. Marissa Mayer, the head of the company, wanted a logo that reflected […]
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Hands Off My Internet!

 If Net Neutrality was lost so too would the strongest platform to exercise freedom of speech. The internet would be no different than the cable industry with Fox News and CNN controlling how and what you see and hear for the sake of their own interests. It would be a left wing or right wing […]
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Thank You Norman Borlaug

 I bet if I told you about a man named Norman Borlaug you probably wouldn’t know who I was talking about. This Nobel Peace Prize winning man was a major factor for saving billions of people around the world through his work. He was deeply worried about the effects that an impending, yet quickly approaching, […]
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