With the announcement that a University of Chicago physicist won the Nobel Prize two weeks ago, the official count of people associated with the University who are Nobel Laureates grew to 82. But that doesn’t include a few prizes that…
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Class Dismissed: Fun and learning with University of Chicago undergraduates
by Bertha Kinsky •
The following is a transcript from a discussion section for an undergraduate humanities class if everyone involved said exactly what they were thinking. Graduate Instructor: Okay, I know no one wants to be here, and few people in this section…
Tools of the Trade: What hipsters do, and what you can too, to get down and dirty
by Bertha Kinsky •
Hipsters have it bad when it comes to sex. First of all, everybody is busy being “ironically” ugly. Second, it’s hard to have sex and be non-conformist at the same time, since everybody has sex, and most people enjoy it.…