Author: Juliette Wipf

  • The Giro D’Italia

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      Francesca Cavallo The Giro d’Italia, or Tour of Italy, is one of the world’s most famous bicycle races. Twenty-two international teams compete for three weeks in a contest of racing tactics, willpower, and raw athleticism. The 2017 Giro is extra special: it’s the 100th race! Even if you’re not a cycling enthusiast, you have…

  • Alt-Foods

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    Yvette Chin Rebooting the traditional food production model to improve climate and environment is driving innovative entrepreneurs to pursue a vegan path. The resulting alt-foods are, unlike alt-facts, solidly grounded in science, as the personnel list at these companies—data scientists, bioinformaticians, chemists, biologists, nutritionists and chefs—attests. While we already have soy-based meat alternatives, such as…

  • Culture Corner

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    Bernie Langs Martin Scorsese and Silence Martin Scorsese, who I consider America’s greatest living film director, is a creative talent with the ability to continuously surprise his audiences in terms of what he chooses for his huge enterprises. Yet, the quality of the final story on the screen may vary. With that said, I find…

  • Quotable Quote

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      The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves. (Helen Keller 1880-1968)  

  • Life on a Roll

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    Beaune in Burgundy, France Elodie Pauwels https://elodiepphoto.wordpress.com Beaune is one of the wine capitals of my country, and is known for its Hospices and its famous roof made of glazed tiles (which you can glimpse in the 50-year old comedy, La Grande Vadrouille). However, I have a clear preference for the Hospices’ courtyard itself, which hasn’t…

  • Cover May 2017

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  • Dominique Ansel Nominated Best Pastry Chef in the World: A Cronut Comeback?

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      Juliette Wipf Who hasn’t heard of the famed 2013 food the Cronut? After quickly gaining worldwide attention, Cronut followers were soon considered frivolous, and the pastry over-hyped. TIME magazine naming the pastry one of the 25 best inventions of the year in 2013, can be a particularly bittersweet pill for us scientists to swallow.…

  • What We Celebrate on 5th of May or Cinco de Mayo

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      Guadalupe Astorga We can appreciate Mexican culture in the United States like no other place in the world. We have all probably entered a shop in New York City and experienced the magical sensation of being instantaneously transported to Mexico. This is not only because cashiers are Mexicans wearing self-expressive t-shirts, or due to…

  • Isle of Man TT: The World’s Most Dangerous Race

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      Owen Clark The spectrum of the “daredevil” has always been somewhat of a curiosity to me, particularly in the world of motorcycles. There are those that wouldn’t go near a bike if you paid them—I’ve met plenty in that category; those that ride, but are content with the confines of commuting; others such as…

  • Culture Corner: On the 50th Anniversary of Sgt. Pepper’s

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      Bernie Langs Late 20th century philosophy took a longwinded detour from practical thought with its micro-analysis on the importance of the structure of language, but there is one idea that emerged that I find of great interest. It is the notion that once an author writes a work of literature and publishes it for…

  • Quotable Quote

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      The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. (Isaac Asimov c. 1920-1992)

  • Life on a Roll

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      Wuhan University Qiong Wang Wuhan University, founded in 1893, is regarded as one of the most beautiful university campuses in China. Set by the peaceful East Lake, surrounding the Luojia Mountain, the campus spreads over 900 acres in the city of Wuhan, China. The palatial buildings of the university, blending Chinese and Western styles,…