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Year of planning culminates in Macalester’s first TEDx event

TEDxMacalesterCollege, Macalester’s first ever TED event, took place in the John B. Davis lecture hall on Saturday, Nov. 4. TED, short for “Technology, Entertainment, Design,” is a lecture series based in Vancouver, British Columbia that has spawned many independently organized events – including this one at Macalester. TED’s slogan is “ideas worth spreading,” and the…

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Ask Sam the Science Man: the RFID system

At mealtimes, hundreds of students pour into the Macalester Campus Center, and with a casual tap of a card, file into Café Mac. Most of these hungry, tired and stressed students do not stop to wonder how the reader recognizes each card and never gets confused. What is this sorcery? How does it work? Radio…

Opinion

Ask Bateman Plaza: Does modern technology make people more or less connected?

This week, we stopped three people at Bateman Plaza to ask them questions that REALLY matter to the Macalester community: We learned, mostly, that these nice people have to work on ignoring weird people stopping them on the street to ask them questions. “I think it makes you less connected in face-to-face interactions. A lot…

Opinion

Staff Editorial: The future of this newspaper’s publications

One of our proudest achievements this semester as a paper has been our new website and improvements to our web presence in general. Our WordPress-hosted website, designed and implemented by our own Kyle Rosenberg ‘13, is both attractive and user-friendly. Last Friday, we had 4,576 page-views on the site, the highest daily total so far….

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Year of planning culminates in Macalester’s first TEDx event

Ask Sam the Science Man: the RFID system

Ask Bateman Plaza: Does modern technology make people more or less connected?

Staff Editorial: The future of this newspaper’s publications

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