• Your Brain on Exercise: The Wrap Up

    Your Brain on Exercise: The Wrap Up

    By Jason Glynn This is the last installment of my summer experience working in a neuroscience lab at the University of New England under a Maine-INBRE (IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence) Fellowship. It’s been awhile, so here’s a brief synopsis of my experiment. I looked into how the perception of pain is handled in… Read more

  • Sailboats Beached

    Sailboats Beached

    By The Beacon Staff After a fall that has been relatively quiet, weather wise that is, a Nor-easter visited the coast of Maine over the course of a few days, October 22nd to the 24th. Sometime before 1:30pm Thursday the 23rd, two sailboats were torn from their moorings, or broke free from docks and were… Read more

  • CCleaner: Making your computer run faster

    CCleaner: Making your computer run faster

    By Ryan Plouffe Is your computer working slower than it should? Try using a free program called CCleaner also known as Crap Cleaner. There are two editions that an individual can choose, one being the edition that can be costly, and the other edition being free which tends to work just as well as the… Read more

  • 20 years of Shawshank Redemption

    20 years of Shawshank Redemption

    By Garrick Hoffman Take a look at the IMDb Top 250 list on its eponymous website – a list dictated by users, not just critics or hierarchal IMDb staff – and at the #1 position is not The Godfather, Citizen Kane, or Titanic. Situated at this spot is, instead, The Shawshank Redemption. Twenty years have… Read more

  • Marin on Movies: Fury

    Marin on Movies: Fury

    By Rebeka Marin Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, and Michael Pena… could David Ayer have chosen a better leading cast for his newest drama “Fury”? I was certainly more than thrilled to watch this killer foursome interact on the big screen. It’s April 1945, the allies are pushing through the last bit of the… Read more

  • Dining out on a Student’s Budget: Back Cove BBQ and Pizzeria

    Dining out on a Student’s Budget: Back Cove BBQ and Pizzeria

    By Dierdree Glassford Have your midterms got you in a slump? Do you just wish it were summer again, so you could kick back and relax? Do you wish it were Super Bowl Sunday already? Me too! Recently I have found myself feeling bored, stuck in the routine of school and seeking a bit of… Read more