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(03/20/19 2:00am)
I’m a Taurus. By definition, that means I’m bold, extroverted, strong, and stubborn—the last being ironically true. In high school, I checked my horoscope excessively. I had a morning routine: wake up, turn on my iPhone, go on Snapchat’s explore page, and check my horoscope on Cosmopolitan. This obsession escalated from just reading Cosmo to the point where I now have not one, but three horoscope apps on my phone. With apps like Co–star rising in popularity, there's an important question here: Why are we all so obsessed with our horoscopes?
(02/25/19 5:19am)
We’ve all been scared time and time again by questionable Facebook articles claiming that our beauty products are killing us. While most of the time we brush it off and continue to use whichever products are readily available without checking labels or reading ingredients, it is essential that we become more mindful of our beauty practices to make sure that we’re not putting harmful substances in or on our bodies. The skin is the largest organ of the body, and whatever is put on it can quickly make its way into our bodies and bloodstreams through our pores. Harmful chemicals from fragrances and colorings, as well as sulfates and parabens, not only irritate the skin, but can also cause allergic reactions or even cancer through its indirect contact with the bloodstream. With everything from tampons to skincare and intensely fragrant body lotions, as well as sulfates in most drugstore shampoos and conditioners, toxic chemicals are in most beauty products without us even knowing it.
(03/11/19 12:06am)
For those who grew up fascinated with the mythical worlds of dragons, sea monsters, and mermaids, the “Mythic Creatures” exhibition, held at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, is the perfect place to rediscover that old love.
(02/25/19 6:59am)
Black screen. Triumphant music. Title crawl. Star Wars, it reads, Episode IX. The newest trilogy by LucasFilm is at the beginning of the end.
(02/20/19 12:34am)
I stared at the word in front of me. It stared back, its font made bigger with each tick of the clock by its unrelenting, dogged determination to not shrink back into nonexistence.
(02/19/19 12:22am)
French house, a musical genre often defined as a combination of Euro disco and Deep house, used to be everywhere. You definitely know it if you’ve ever heard anything by Daft Punk prior to Random Access Memories (perhaps "One More Time" or "Harder Better Faster Stronger") or "D.A.N.C.E" by Justice. Characterized by head–banging drum machines, glittery synthesizers and sequencers, and filtered samples of '70s and '80s music, French house can be seen as the bass–head electronic cousin of disco. Yet, despite the genre itself being just barely 3 decades old, we are beginning to see it die out.
(02/19/19 12:38am)
Wedged between the Golden Globes and the Oscars, the Grammys always seems to be the arts award show that's hastily passed by. The first Grammys were in 1959 when only 28 different awards were given out. Since then, categories have been added and removed, and at one point even reached more than 100. However, even with the addition of new categories, the Grammys still don't feel like they're inclusive to important genres of the music industry, the most obvious being hip–hop and rap.
(02/21/19 4:42am)
If you search “lo–fi hip hop beats to study/relax to,” you’ll come across several 24–hour live streams of ambient hip–hop beats often paired with calming and cute visuals. Starting as an underground phenomenon, this hip–hop subgenre has emerged in the past year, gained popularity and influenced the genre as a whole. Two of the most popular channels—Chillhop Music and ChilledCow—each have over two million subscribers and thousands of people tuned in at any given moment. Crossing over from Youtube, Spotify’s “Lo–Fi Beats” playlist has nearly four hours of “Beats to relax and focus” and over one million followers. Other music platforms like SoundCloud and Pandora are starting to be populated by similar playlists, gaining lo–fi hip–hop’s legitimacy as both a concentration tool and music genre.
(02/17/19 11:08pm)
Cleo Tucker and Harmony Tividad formed Girlpool as teenagers living in Los Angeles. Armed with just a guitar and bass, the two–piece sang in inseparable harmony on their unique brand of folk punk jams. Simple instrumentation left them nowhere in their tracks to hide, but hiding was never Girlpool’s intention; their sharp singing took lyrical swings at slut–shaming and white male privilege on their 2014 debut Girlpool.
(02/13/19 7:39am)
We asked Max and Will to talk about their relationship while the other person was wearing noise-canceling headphones. This is both sides of their story.
(02/13/19 7:17am)
We asked Sabrina and Jahnik to talk about their relationship while the other person was wearing noise-canceling headphones. This is both sides of their story.
(02/13/19 7:13am)
We asked Kiana and Brian to talk about their relationship while the other person was wearing noise-canceling headphones. This is both sides of their story.
(02/13/19 6:45am)
We asked Susanna and Eric to talk about their relationship while the other person was wearing noise-cancelling headphones. This is both sides of their story.
(02/13/19 6:18am)
**Content warning: The following text describes sexual assault and can be disturbing and/or triggering for some readers. Please find resources listed at the bottom of the article.**
(02/12/19 2:31am)
It's 2019 and one of the main forms of affectionate communication is tagging people in memes. While memes are great, it seems like maybe millennials sometimes have trouble conveying their love more meaningfully. But how do we learn to do this? Believe it or not, there does exist some specific and helpful methodology. The five languages of love is a concept developed by Gary Chapman that categorizes the ways that we express and accept love. According to Chapman, the five ways to show love are through words of affirmation, gifts, acts of services, quality time, and physical touch.
(02/12/19 4:24am)
Since the dawn of tape decks, lovers have exchanged mixtapes as a sign of alternative intimacy. Cassettes, and later CDs, gave the music-sharing experience a physical form representing a desire to grow closer through the sharing of tastes.
(02/05/19 5:10am)
I was in the middle of frantically writing down the mechanism for an allylic bromination reaction when the familiar “215” number popped up on my phone. Jumping out of my seat, I felt all eyes in the organic chemistry lecture turned towards me as I sprinted up the steps, burst out of the lecture hall, and breathlessly answered the call from my gastroenterologist. My test results had come back, and I needed to go to the emergency room as soon as possible. As I sat in the hospital bed with an IV pumping fluids into my right arm and a handful of orgo flashcards on the left, I barely had the energy to sit up, let alone study for my exam next week.
(03/12/19 12:17am)
The projection of an empty comic page is strikingly bright against the dimness of the room. A few students are clustered around a desk, looking on attentively as professor Robert Berry explains what he is doing. As he carefully outlines lineart with a fine–tipped pen, he describes how mistakes can be covered up by adding some shadows, which adds “more dynamism” to the panel.
(02/06/19 12:40am)
Penn Professor Adrian Raine had no idea he went viral.
(02/04/19 4:07am)
Michel Legrand, a celebrated composer and conductor best known for his film scores, died on Saturday at 86 years old. Over his career, Legrand collaborated with musicians like Miles Davis and Frank Sinatra, working also as a jazz pianist. Legrand’s achievements are extensive: He won three Academy Awards and five Grammys. His Oscar–winning songs—“The Windmills of Your Mind” from The Thomas Crown Affair and “What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?” from The Happy Ending—are among his most well–known compositions. However, Legrand’s profession as a composer and arranger of film scores hasn’t always earned him recognition. Considering Legrand's impact on film history, let's take a look at how scores and soundtracks have shaped movies, and vice versa.
