Badfish: a tribute
Scott Begin plays drums for a Sublime cover band. He’s a handsome, short-haired white guy who looks eight years younger than he is (35). The muscles in his arms reveal which instrument he plays....
Articles by Marcus Moretti
Tapping empathy
I had heard that spinal taps are among the most painful medical procedures. My love for the rockumentary of the same name strangely made it more daunting.
What we talk about when we talk about hooking up
As a liberal, I even found some of Harden's arguments admissible. At other times, though, resisting the urge to fling the hardcover across the room was difficult.
What’s post-trap?
Once pop adopts trap, as it adopted dubstep and basically every underground music movement in America or Europe since black ragtime, something will have to fill the gap.
Q&A: Divya Narendra
At Harvard, Narendra co-founded the social network that inspired Facebook.
11. BEST SYLLABUS
“Separation and Purification Processes” (CENG 411) Instructor: Michael Lowenberg This course provides a rigorous introduction to the theory and design of industrial and laboratory-scale separation and purification processes for multicomponent and multiphase mixtures that...
27. BEST MASTER’S TEA
I discovered Sandor Katz, as most people do, when I first heard the Propagandhi song “Human(e) Meat (The Flensing of Sandor Katz),” a tender punk ballad about skinning and consuming Katz. “Flensing” is a...
75. BEST PRANK
On Sept. 12, 2010, President Richard Levin was worried that the faculty wouldn’t take him seriously. He had just composed an email to all of Yale and was ready to send it. In a...
MUSIC: Kendrick Lamar
The average song on Kendrick Lamar’s debut album is over five-and-a-half minutes. This isn’t an amateur mistake. Lamar released his first mixtape in 2003, so he’s been doing this for almost a decade. The...
It’s Business Time, for real this time
Business Time is a short film series written by and starring Yale's own Stuart Pliskin, BR '13. Here are our favorite moments.
A planet full of diamond, all Yale’s
Yalies just discovered a planet made of diamonds. Our endowment is saved! That planet’s orbit is 18 hours—as opposed to our 365 days (8,760 hours). That’s fucking crazy! But what’s great about the planet...
Flying Lotus’s set for Diplo and Friends
Here's Flying Lotus's DJ set for BBC's Diplo and Friends.
MUSIC: Flying Lotus
A nagging snare inauspiciously opens Until the Quiet Comes, and persistently sticks around to keep time at circa 120 BPM. Huh? Oh, hold on—here’s the familiar Flying Lotus in that looped chime-chord that comes...
Acting up
On Tuesday morning, Yale panlists began circulating a website. It ran a large headline, “Choosing a president,” before a letter to alumni concerning the Yale Corporation’s presidential search committee.
Bloomberg finna strand the Yale Club
This is the first time a writer for 06520, the “news blog” of the Yale Alumni Magazine, has put a question mark and an exclamation point in the same headline. NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg...
BREAKING: Dept. of Education closes investigation of Yale’s Title IX compliance
President Richard Levin announced Friday that the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights has closed its investigation with no findings of noncompliance. The investigation began in March 2011, when several students and...
Berman dominating the YCC bracket
Most people are disappointed by the close of March Madness, because by now their brackets are in roughly the same shape as this guy. But one Saybrook junior is still drunk on dunks: Adam Berman,...
CORRECTION to Vol. LIII, No. 3
CORRECTION: The “index” blurb on p. 5 of our Feb. 3 issue incorrectly reported the number of complaints brought by undergraduates as 13. There were 27 complaints brought by undergraduates, according to the Report...
Liberal arts in Singapore
Samuel Robbins Brown, YC 1832, took his first trip to China in 1838. He was on a mission with the Morrison Education Society, a group that intended to bring the Western religious and humanistic...
Website: Fold.it
It took a dozen computer gamers just 10 days to solve a puzzle that had baffled biochemists for 15 years. The team discovered the most efficient crystal structure of a protein that causes AIDS...
