People get upset at me for showing up late to places I say I'm going to be. If you tell me to meet you in the library so we can finish the project that was supposed to be done last Wednesday, I will inevitably show up eleven minutes late, red and flustered beyond reasonability. It will be impossible to get me to focus on the task at hand within the time we have allotted ...

Let’s take a moment to address a few of the claims made about a week ago by Ms. Allen in her allegedly “thorough letter to the editor, repudiating most of [Horner’s] data on the subject.” For starters, the notion that the speaker had not researched the topic of global warming thoroughly is preposterous. It suggests that the nearly forty pages of references in his first book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming ...

As far as any of us in the Pub Office can remember, this might be the longest issue of TKS ever—at least as long as TKS has been a weekly paper. We have the special election guide done by Marilyn Webb’s 270 class to thank for that: they did a great job, and we should all be glad to get to know a little more about who will be on the ballot on ...

What is mindful eating?

Mindful eating is eating as meditation. Often when people eat, especially in the caf, they fill up a plate with food, try to scarf it down in ten minutes, and fail to do so. This wastes lots of food. While they are eating, they are thinking about some problem or idea they need to work out, where they need to go, how stressed they are, etc.

But when you rush, you ...

If the onslaught of midterms and the descent of orange leaves aren’t clues enough, fall is undeniably here and the snow won’t be far off. Before we all run inside from the plummeting temperatures, take this upcoming Saturday to enjoy the outdoors at the Knox Community Garden Fall Harvest Hoedown Festival.

Everyone is welcome to come and participate, from those of you who have wondered about the garden all fall to those who ...