Have fun in Seattle! A great place to wander around and go book shopping is the Capitol Hill neighborhood (it's right on the other side of the freeway from downtown, so you can walk there if the weather is cooperating). Elliott Bay Books is the biggest independent bookstore in town, and Victrola has arguably the…

I ate a raw wasp pupa in south China. It was about as big as my thumb. It had about the consistency of Jello, but juicier, and tasted bitter and terrible.

At my school they're connected to a randomly generated exam number (in order to make people actually fill the evals out, they require you to do them to get the number, which is then used to allow the professors to blind-grade exams). The professors have no way to connect the evaluations with the students' identities,…

It's my favorite lager by far, and I love to give it to people who aren't usually lager fans because it's so flavorful. Such a great beer.

Never has a person's face so perfectly matched their soul.

What's wrong with Uwajimaya, out of curiosity?

Oh my god, I work close to there and walk by it pretty much every day. I've never had the courage to go inside, but I have seen multiple drug deals outside the side door!

Mine keeps switching to Comcast ads, if that's what you're referring to?

Philly has Deschutes now! They started distributing year-round a couple years ago.

No, Spelman said that the current recipients would just have the name changed to "Spelman Distinguished Scholars" or something similar. The people who have it now won't lose their jobs.

You're right - I mentioned above that there had to be protected class status involved, but I should have made that clearer.

There's an idea in employment law called "constructive termination," which basically means that your employer made your work environment so hostile (because of a protected class, like race or gender) that, although you weren't fired, you had no choice but to quit. It would be my guess that that is this guy's cause of…

he's....CHUCK BASS.

And Northwestern!

The Gap actually has decent bras in a similar price range (I can't speak for their range of sizes since I'm a pretty standard size).

Nope, I got a job back home and will be happy to go back. I like Penn a lot though; I'm not sure what program you'll be applying to, but I've enjoyed my time there.

I'm a Penn grad student too (but I graduate this spring, so I'll miss you). Philly is...fine? I'm from the West Coast originally and don't have any family out here, so it's very different for me, much less green and clean than I'm used to. That said, there are some good restaurants and bars here and it's grown on…

This North Face jacket is pretty spendy but one of my favorite things ever. It comes with a hood (which you can remove) and has an outer waterproof layer and an inner down layer. You can wear them separately or zip them together for a warm AND waterproof jacket. It's fitted through the waist too, so it isn't mega…

No, it should not. The Iranian people and the Iranian government are not the same thing at all; even Iran's moderate president is speaking out against the far-right theocratic elements. I highly doubt that Bourdain's episode will be full of pro-government propaganda.

Yeah, I have no clue how we looked so awful in the 4th quarter and then just NBD'ed down the field in OT. We probably didn't deserve to win that.