Author Archive for Aaron Elias
Al-Asi on Israel: Yes, He Really Said That
Something about speeches about Gaza. Great Satan makes a cameo appearance!
I.D. Rakes it in and Gets Rake in Face
Every so often, a group will try to promote its cause and give itself the proverbial rake in the face. The pointy end of the rake came up when the makers of ‘Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed’ started bribing fundamentalist schools to organize mandatory field trips forcing students to watch the film. Bribery? Great publicity move! [...]
Smart Pills: Safe? Fair?
Falling asleep in class is not a new obstacle to college students today. Large classes can swell to as many as 200 students, which is perfect coverage for safely dozing off in class. Also, there is only one professor, and the seats are usually more comfortable than those hardback plastic chairs in high school. Even [...]
Apple Enthusiasts Get Their ‘Mac’ on at Expo
Steve Jobs is the man who brought us the joy that is the iPod and gave us the iPhone. The man behind Apple recently threw Macworld 2008 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, revealing many of Apple’s latest technological advances to the public from Jan. 14-18. Over 50,000 people pre-ordered tickets to the event, [...]
CIA Torture Tapes Are a Step Away From Watergate
The House Judiciary Committee Chairman and 18 other House Democrats asked the Attorney General to replace a government-appointed lawyer with an outside one in the investigation into the CIA’s destruction of the videotapes of the interrogations of two suspected al-Qaeda members. The replacement was requested on Jan. 1, a day before the government-appointed lawyer, John [...]
Caveat Disciplus: Course Catalogue Can Confuse
Three times a year, we UC Irvine students must go through the agonizing process of coming up with new schedules for the next quarter. First, you have to find out what requirements you need to fulfill, what classes meet those requirements, what classes you want and what classes you can arrange into a schedule, only [...]
Plan to Pick a Prof, Any Prof Online
As a college student, your GPA relies heavily on several different factors in your everyday life: work ethic, habits, jobs, extracurricular activities, scheduling of classes, physical and mental health, friends and boyfriends/girlfriends. However, one factor that plays a crucial role in what grade you earn is, unfortunately, something you don’t have any control over: the [...]
Game Ratings Hurt Sales
If you’ve spent any amount of time in the gaming world, chances are you’ve heard of game developer Rockstar and its reputation for churning out games that make mothers everywhere bite their nails. Many of its games contain violence, sex or sexual themes. Its ‘Grand Theft Auto’ series is notorious for sparking controversy.
Rockstar’s latest game, [...]
Stem Cells May Reverse Brain Injury and Restore Memory
SCIENCE: Startling recovery in memory found through experimentation
