Pumpkin Life
When one of my American friends invited me over for a Thanksgiving dinner, I said “YES!” without even thinking, because her husband makes the best pumpkin pie ever, which is apparently a tradition of
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Darwin Tales
As last week’s Philosophy Day seminars were unified by the theme of Darwin and evolution (or rather, speciation by natural selection, which is more in line with Darwin’s famed theory), it behooves me to
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The Beauty of Simple Complexity
With a sentence-long name typical of the genre, Maybeshewill is an English post-rock band, producing electronic-influenced progressive and, considering the genre, unexpectedly melodic music. Maybeshewill mostly makes instrumental tracks. They compose very technical and
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What’s It Like to Be at Bilkent?
BY NAZ AKYOL (IR/IV) Name: Arnachani Riaseta Department: International Relations Age: 21 Home Country: Indonesia Favorite Turkish Food: İskender What is your experience of spending time in Ankara and at Bilkent University? I have
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Toward a New City
For those of you who read my last piece, this week is about another Jane. Thanks to an elective I’m taking, my life has been filled with ideas about cities, and the way we
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BITCHES BREW, OR THE BIRTH OF JAZZ FUSION
In April 1970, Miles Davis released “Bitches Brew,” which completely changed the direction of the jazz movement and resulted in the formation of many jazz fusion bands As someone who worked at the frontier
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ego cogito, ego sum
ALP RODOPLU (HIST/MA) [Preliminary. It had always been his mother’s dream to have her family live under the same roof. Perhaps dream is too strong a word here — let’s hear this in terms
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