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2025 Tartan staff: pop culture wrapped
Books Sam Bates I read “The Moonstone” by Wilkie Collins this year for a mystery fiction class, and I loved it! If you love ...
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The view from halfway there
Articles featured in the Forum section are solely the opinions of their individual authors. I never really liked endings all that much. Of course, if one of my more psychology-smitten friends had ...
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Mexican Cartels Lure Undergraduate Chemistry Students
A photo of Culiacán, the capital and largest city of Sinaloa. It is also the stronghold of the Sinaloa Cartel and the center of fentanyl production. “Temple of La Lomita, an image taken from Canal ...
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Nobody is too good — or not good enough — to write
Articles featured in the Forum section are solely the opinions of their individual authors. Seated in a tomato-red chair in Tepper Simmons, my parents on either side of me, I remember hearing ...
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Scotch’n’Soda’s ‘Horse Girls’ is surreal and entertaining
Photos by Katherine Casarrubius Gallardo [WARNING, SPOILERS AHEAD.] I wasn’t sure what to expect when I heard Scotch’n’Soda was producing a play called “Horse Girls,” but I was really curious to ...
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CMUPD hosts toy drive for local tots
The Carnegie Mellon University Police Department collected kids toys on campus for its annual holiday drive, supporting children in need. Arden Ryan/ News Editor With the holiday season ...
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E-Tattoos: An alternative to EEGs
A photo of a man wearing an electroencephalography (EEG) cap. The electrodes are attached using a wet gel. Courtesy of Antoine Lutz via Wikimedia Commons   An electroencephalography (EEG) is a ...
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A Very Carnegie Christmas
Scene: Airport, much bustle. It’s Christmas season, and there are Christmas trees, ornaments, and holiday cheer everywhere. We focus on ...
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The Rock and the Hallmark-ification of action movies
Oh God, Dwayne Johnson made another miserable action movie. I don’t wanna say it feels like The Rock is cooking up the Hallmark of action films, but The Rock is absolutely cooking up a filmography ...
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EdBoard: Bittersweet Tartan goodbyes
Articles featured in the Forum section are solely the opinions of their individual authors. It’s been a fun ride, y’all. This week, our duo of dynamic duo Editors-in-Chief and Publishers have ...
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Two perspectives on loving ‘Love Actually’
On Nov. 6, 2003, Richard Curtis’s Christmas masterpiece, “Love Actually” was released in the U.S. The movie takes place a month before Christmas ...
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The science behind painting restoration
Rembrandt van Rijn’s “The Night Watch,” one of the most well-known Dutch Golden Age paintings. It was vandalized three times – in 1911 and 1975 with a knife and once in 1990 with a bottle of ...