Post Column: Strange parasites invade tongue, brain
Oct. 6, 2012For this week’s pleasant Monday mental image, imagine a blood-sucking, worm-like creature slowly eating your tongue until it’s a dried-up stub.
COLUMNS
Post Column: Gaga's 'Body Revolution' refreshingly raw
Oct. 6, 2012Finally, Lady Gaga weighs in. I’ll admit, I’ve always had my reservations about the meat-wearing pop star for a number of reasons. Mostly because I don’t trust people who casually show up to places in eggs, but that’s neither here nor there.
Color Me Cultured: Beginning kendo not for the impatient
Oct. 3, 2012I have a fair interest in Japanese culture. I like their food, their history and their potentially-criminal game shows.
Post Column: 'Looper': The saga of a hungry hitman
Oct. 3, 2012The rifle in my hand was cool to the touch, and I could feel the deadly killing power that existed behind its sleek frame. In no way did this stop me from casually tossing it up in the air and catching it later, clumsily, with one hand as the other held the phone against my ear. “So all I have to do is just wait for the guy to show up, shoot him, and then I get the money, right?”
Between The Lines: Finally, an excuse to look at baby animals
Oct. 3, 2012Once in a while, science does me a solid.
Unearthing history
By Olivia Young | Oct. 3, 2012A century-old atlas tucked away in the archives of Ohio Univer sity’s Alden Library shows Athens spotted with red markings where archeological evidence of Native American inhabitance has been found. A constellation of ciphers indicating burial mounds, en closures and village sites cover the 2.3 square-mile parish that is now The Plains.
Between The Lines: Counting 'lasts' is an unenjoyable way to live
Oct. 3, 2012Seeing the leaves change color during my senior year of college reminded me of what an overused metaphor autumn is. But it’s impossible to deny that everything will be changing pretty soon.
Post Column: Parenting influences ideas of authority
Oct. 1, 2012In Chinese, the word “nation” (guo jia) includes “country” (guo) and “family” (jia). For us, the country is a big family that consists of many small families. The well-being of these small families is affected by the conditions of the big one. Conversely, the small families also affect the big one, especially through their fundamental parenting ideas.
Post Column: Rules in volleyball, football are most complex
Sep. 30, 2012I have a theory that the more complicated the sport, the more popular it is at Ohio University. I developed this theory while watching a volleyball game, which turned out to be a lot more elaborate than I expected. I was struggling to keep track of all the points, which were tallying up quickly, when suddenly the scoreboard reset and instead of 25 points, we had only one. That’s when I learned what a set was.
Post Column: Cooking can be fun when playing games
Sep. 30, 2012It’s been five weeks and cooking has lost its excitement. It has become something I just have to do in order to survive. I decided to bring back the excitement in the kitchen and create my own cooking game show.
Post Column: 'Bagel heads' newest inexplicable trend
Sep. 29, 2012Most of us are familiar with our bagels: blueberry bagels, chocolate bagels … but saline bagels? If you’ve already been visually scarred by the photos running rampant on Facebook, then you’re familiar with the Asian trend that has people around the Western Hemisphere cringing in horror.
Post Column: Bizarre fungi, bugs adapt to survive jungle
Sep. 29, 2012Invest in dead bodies, people. They’re as good a piece of real estate as anything else.
Post Column: Zumba is a terrible experience for newbies
Sep. 26, 2012Zumba was one of the worst experiences of my life. I know, the abrupt start seems unprofessional, but it was better than my original column idea of just repeating “Zumba sucks” for 500 words like an even more deranged Jack Nicholson from The Shining.
Post Column: Figuring out the gym is a workout in itself
Sep. 26, 2012Wow, there are a lot of people in this gym. I was seriously hoping this place would be empty. Is there like, maybe, a private workout stall I can use? Is that a thing? I don’t think that’s a thing.
Between the Lines: Police ride-along a night to remember
Sep. 25, 2012As I was walking from my dorm room to the Athens Police station, I began wondering what my ride-along would be like. Would it be like the movie Training Day, or more along the lines of the TV show Reno 911?
Post Column: Four-ingredient meal is first real success
Sep. 24, 2012It was Sunday afternoon and I was hungry. I was sick of eating ravioli and baked potatoes. I no longer was craving pancakes and other quick meals. I couldn’t take it anymore — I needed real food, but I didn’t know what to make.
Post Column: Sophia's Chinerica: Persistence in activism makes the difference
Sep. 24, 2012When I asked Amy Goodman, the executive producer and host of the news program Democracy Now!, about persistence in a social movement, the answer was surprisingly yet reasonably simple: “Just stick to it.”
Post Column: Boxing violence parallels human nature
Sep. 23, 2012Now that I have a TV in my dorm room and all I do in my leisure time is take advantage of the free HBO, I’ve been seeing a ton of commercials for boxing.
Post Column: Is 'extreme ironing' the peak of competition?
Sep. 22, 2012Humans are naturally and perversely competitive.
