The Oxford Dictionaries named “post-truth” as their Word of the Year 2016.
[Editor’s Note: “Hot Dawgs” is a weekly column written by Joy Geerkens exploring love, sex, and relationships at the UW.]
Dear President-elect Trump,
[Editor’s Note: Design Eats the World is a biweekly column exploring design as intention and how it affects the world around us.]
In Juliet’s famous soliloquy, “What’s in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” Shakespeare laments about the importance of definitions. While he was discussing the name “Montague,” I’ve been struggling with my own definitions lately. Namely, those of love.
SARVA’s Kalin Goss and Kaitlyn Pahler discuss consent and campus rape culture
[Editor’s note: “Pin the tail on the donkey” is a new column that will run every other week in which Rebecca Gross will battle with her complex relationship with the Democratic Party as she interns with the Los Angeles County branch this summer.]
Iris Wilkinson was an esteemed New Zealand poet, mainly under the pen name Robin Hyde, who is most famous for her novels “Passport to Hell,” “Nor the Years Condemn,” and “The Godwits Fly.”
When I started at the UW as a freshman, I never imagined that I would be writing my own column, let alone a sex column. In high school I was always an innocent, straight-A student who never hung out with the “cool kids” or talked about sex.
The first edition of “The Futurist” printed February 10, 2015, and I’ve spilled a whole lot of ink lobbing bouquets and brickbats at ideas supposedly set to change the world. So, as my undergraduate career draws to a close, I’d like to end this column in its current avatar. But before going, I’d like to make a few observations about the present, the future, and how we should think about them.
Summer is coming
I was fortunate enough to have a loving mother to talk with about relationships, who emphasized the importance of a man treating a woman fairly. Even so, I never learned the nitty-gritty details of sex or even how sex worked from these conversations. It’s not that my mother never tried to te…
Spring has sprung, and spring quarter has begun. Daylight Savings Time has also started — “spring forward” — when an hour disappeared early March 13: An event known to cause a spike in traffic accidents the following week, possibly as much as 17 percent.
In our stimulus-driven world of smartphones, tablets, and laptops, we sometimes forget to slow down and focus on the person in front of us. Sure, most of us know it’s important to forget the phone during an interview or turn it to silent during a movie, but what about during a date?
“I have the best words”
There’s more to Wicca than this weekly column
They say you are unique, just like everyone else. This oft mentioned aphorism usually mocks conformity in society. But dig a little deeper, and it has yet another meaning. There are appoximately 7.25 billion people in the world, each one of them as unique and irreplicable as the next. That’s…
After a brief sun break, winter’s back in full force. This year, at least, the old saying “in like a lion” is certainly accurate, especially as Super Tuesday, and its consequences, sweep the country.
In “The Martian,” the stranded-in-space Matt Damon famously vows to “science the s--- out of this.” A lot of said science-ing consists of finding the resources to keep him alive. Apart from communicating his intentions back to Earth, and figuring out the journey to the takeoff site, Damon’s …
Why revealing your number of partners can be beneficial for a relationship
Consider the 960 mile drive from here to Los Angeles and its costs. Even with a full tank of petrol in a hybrid like the Prius, you would have to top up at least once. The Prius’ range is ideally around 600 miles, but weighed down with luggage and a leaden foot it is much lower. Further, mos…
Let’s talk about “entitlement”
Hopefully the February weather hasn’t ruined your appetite for ice cream, because this week’s words are “sherbet” and “sorbet,” both types of frozen treats whose names descend from Arabic شربة sharba, “drink.”
Many people shy away from bondage, discipline, sadism, and masochism (BDSM), but it’s actually more popular and more sex positive than you might expect, or than the name might suggest. Often, people fear the kink because of preconceived notions based on movies or TV shows, but there’s a lot …
State versus corporate control, ethics of new technologies, economic growth, and maximizing human potential have constantly concerned this column, and there is a name of these potentially continental movements in human society: the fourth industrial revolution. As expected, there is some dis…
After nearly a year of campaigning, the Iowa caucus has finally come and gone, with Cruz and Clinton (narrowly) taking home wins.
[Editor’s note: Pillow Talk is a sex column covering everything from love and relationships, sex in the media, and controversial topics. The column represents the diversity of sex and gender to promote a better understanding of sex and relationships through a self-love and body-positive pers…
Ignoring hate crimes are perpetrates more than fear of the Occult
You may have heard or read the term “big data” recently. It seems to be everywhere, and its world-changing attributes are a common talking point in articles these days. Loosely understood, big data consists of a large amount of structured and unstructured data that can be analyzed for patter…
No, Gloria, that’s not why we’re feeling the Bern
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February is a nice month. Twenty-eight is evenly divisible by seven, so February calendars are always nice and square, with no firsts or 31sts leaking over the edges.
Back in October 2015, Google filed a patent for a solar-powered smart contact lens that takes health data from its user and connects it to their phone. Sci-fi enough as it is, it makes current wearables like the Apple Watch and FitBit Flex look positively plebian. It’s different in two impor…
[Editor’s note: This column is satire, like every other column before it.]
Washington House Republicans don’t understand how gender works
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Despite the preponderance of indigenous languages prior to colonization, very few words from the myriad languages made their way into modern English.
I’m not sure what exactly politicized me over the past year. But there was an external force that seemed to grab me by the shoulders and shake me toward being involved in the upcoming elections.
In March 2015, I wrote on Universal Basic Income (UBI), calling it “an income unconditionally granted to individuals without question, as a means to their basic livelihood.” I also ruefully said that governments of large countries wouldn’t pick it up until at least some proof-of-concept exis…
Thinking beyond the ‘rescue’ narrative
It’s a unique kind of sex show
Arabic + Latin = English
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There’s a lot more to be said — help us do so
Taking a sip of ritual and history
Technological immortality and split speciation
Take deportation off your bucket list
January #2,716(ish)