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Friday, May 25, 2012

Yusha Hu

The awkward revolution: Why goofy is in

My goal today: explain why girls swoon over awkward boys, even beyond the confines of our arboretum. It’s my last column … I think it’s time to share one of my crazier ideas.

Awkward wasn’t alwa…

All of the above preferred

This is my last food-related column, I promise. I just need to take the puzzle pieces I’ve talked about so far, push them together, and try to create the bigger picture. How do we want large-scale far…

Industrial farming deleterious

Agribusiness. GMOs. There must be a better answer than the marginally-better-of-two-evils. I came out in my last column cautiously in favor of the use of genetically modified crops over current indust…

Genetically modified organisms are mm ... mm ... good

If you didn’t read the Phoenix two weeks ago or, much more likely, have completely forgotten anything I said, here is a flashback. Last time, I wrote that there is no ethical or practical basis for ca…

When is a cow evil?

The FDA recently made it legal to sell meat and milk from cloned animals, declaring cloned organisms to be just as safe for human consumption as conventionally-bred animals.

While that idea makes me s…

Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink

Lately, the campaign has been in full swing against bottled water. Permanent water bottles are a fashion statement at this point. Sigg, for one, is sweeping the campus with its shiny aluminum bottles.…

Tune out & slim down

“Project Runway” is my favorite show. I’m enchanted by pretty clothes and the talented people who make them. But after watching 15 episodes between New Year’s Day and Jan. 3, I found myself mouthing a…