*This is an Iowa State Daily column by Ian Timberlake written for graduates* Just past seven in the evening, the sun is making its departure and its warm rays blanket your body as your fingertips tickle the tall grass. Monstrous, white clouds pock the bluebird sky, casting intermittent shadows across rolling fields of flora swelling … Continue reading
22 Things Happy People Do Differently
Reblogged from Bucket List Publications: This article is from Chiara Fucarino. Enjoy! There are two types of people in the world: those who choose to be happy, and those who choose to be unhappy. Contrary to popular belief, happiness doesn’t come from fame, fortune, other people, or material possessions. Rather, it comes from within. The … Continue reading
Marginalized Massacres: The story the media won’t sensationalize.
*Iowa State Daily column by Ian Timberlake* Sandy Hook, 20 children and seven adults murdered, plus injured. Virginia Tech, 32 students and faculty murdered and 23 injured. Aurora theater, 12 movie patrons murdered and 58 injured. Town Center Mall, two shoppers murdered, plus injured. Binghamton School, 14 murdered, plus injured. Fort Hood, 13 murdered and … Continue reading
Jurassic Park 3D: Play Smart with the Environment, Don’t Play God
*Iowa State Daily column by Ian Timberlake* Oh how we humans like to be masters of our environment, controllers of life. If we can do something, we do it. Though it may sound cliche, just because we can do something, should we? Within the last couple of decades our knowledge of DNA has increased tremendously. … Continue reading
Your tax dollars in military and education… where are they going? (Petition)
*Iowa State Daily column by Ian Timberlake* In 1947 our national defense budget was below $100 billion. In 1952 it was nearly $500 billion, and ever since 1955, it has been on the incline from $225 billion. Excluding the cost of Iraq and Afghanistan, since 2001 our defense budget has gone up from $287 billion … Continue reading
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Nope, it’s just meteor 2012 DA14!
*Iowa State Daily column by Ian Timberlake* June 30, 1908, was a rather eventful day in an otherwise uneventful forest in Siberia, Russia, when a meteor nearly a football field in size exploded only a few miles above Earth’s surface. The “Tunguska event” went almost completely unnoticed thanks to its isolation from the rest of … Continue reading
