• Poetic License: Fall, the Season of My Essence

    by Patrick Doyle Labor Day happened and now it feels more like autumn. That’s okay to me, I always enjoy the recycling-type-feeling that this time of year represents … also B-horror movies, The Misfits (’77-’83, duh), Scorpio birthdays (Scorpio = autumnal, right, or is that just totes Scorpio of me to say?), harvest traditions, brisk… Read more

  • Pro-Active Advice: Coffee, Tea, or a Band-Aid for your knee?

    By Maisarah Miskoon Let’ talk about stuff, baby. Let’s talk about you and me. Let’s talk about all the good things and the bad thing that may be. Let’s talk about YOU. Let’s talk about what you find troubling and what’s been bugging you. So without further ado (or at risk of over-alliteration or violating… Read more

  • Tech Talk: Simplicity to Complicity

    By James Loomis For those of you who didn’t hear about a recent security issue, at the end of last semester an issue with the way web sites transmitted your passwords and security information was over an open line. Which meant that anyone with the right, or wrong knowledge could use this to get your… Read more

  • Solar Power in 2014: A New Milestone  

    Garrick Hoffman In a recent publication by news website Article 3, a heartening headline stole the featured spot under its Tech section: “Solar Now Powering Half A Million Homes and Businesses”. According to A3, “Every 40 minutes, the amount of solar energy that falls on the earth’s surface is equal to the total annual energy… Read more

  • Science Watch Room: Your Brain on Exercise: Part Deux

    By Jason Glynn, Liberal Studies Major Here is the second (and hopefully final) installment of my summer experience working in a neuroscience lab at the University of New England, under a Maine-INBRE Fellowship. I was awarded a National Institutes of Health sponsored fellowship geared towards biomedical research, and I chose to carry it out at UNE’s… Read more

  • My Euro-Trip: Germany  

    By Erik Squire As promised, here is trip number two in my four edition series, journaling my travels abroad. In this article I will thoroughly divulge my incredible adventures in: (drumroll please…) Mid-Eastern Germany! I took my early AM flight from beautiful Barcelona into the hustle and bustle of Frankfurt. When I walked into the… Read more