Archive for Madelyn Kearns
Fire — both humankind’s most beloved discovery and hottest foe. For it, we have struck flint; by it, we have bent metals and roasted chicken; and with it, we have maintained the light and warmth required …
A few years ago, when my grandmother lived with my family, my mother would often set her up on Skype to talk to her grandchildren.
I’ve never seen her beautiful eyes get so big.
“Erin, I see you …
Mitt Romney pays a much lower tax rate than people who earn about as much as he does in one hour, without even having a job.
Fox News and its pundits have recently cried “class warfare” in …
I make no apologies about it — I’m a gamer. As in, someone who spends a great portion of their time playing and/or swearing at various video games in multiple mediums.
And as a gamer, there’s one …
If there’s one take-away lesson from last week’s apparent death by suicide of University of Maine sophomore psychology student Timothy James Dodge Jr., it’s that college students are in a vulnerable place and life isn’t getting …
This week, the most unpopular date on the calendar came and went.
I’m speaking of Tax Day, the day when the federal government sees fit to return some of its citizens’ money to them. This is a …
While browsing the Internet recently, I ran into a website that I found extremely disturbing.
The site proclaimed to be “pro-ana,” so I did a little research and discovered this meant the website advocated for anorexia or …
This is my last column after a year of writing about sustainability on campus and in my life.
I won’t lie — at times it has been a bit of a struggle to find things to write …
Research shows that innovation and high productivity are most likely to occur when thinkers interact in close physical spaces, swap information and collaborate.
This is why, even in our age of mobile screens, organizations spend billions of …
