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ANGLES: What is the best literary trope?

Any person who gets far enough into being a passionate consumer of fiction is familiar with certain tropes that are common in their genre of choice. Whether they make the reader laugh or groan, literary tropes are a staple of the craft. Online communities provide spaces to discuss said tropes.

Leave behind LinkedIn

Leave behind LinkedIn

I’m so happy and humbled to share, once and for all, that I hate LinkedIn. It’s not just because it pretends that it’s a social media site — as if we need more of those. It’s because it’s possible to spend hours scrolling through post after

Aquaponics could lead to sustainable farming

Aquaponics could lead to sustainable farming

An image of an American farm usually portrays a red barn with rows of identical-looking crops stretching for miles across a flat landscape. While farms in America are more diverse than this description, monocropping is almost homogeneous farming. Monocropping decreases soil productivity because of a lack of produce diversity and

Baby names keep getting weirder

Baby names keep getting weirder

Parents’ announcements of their babies’ arrival into the world have flooded my social media feed as of late. Unfortunately, the accompanying pictures of the squishy newborns are not what make me do a double take — it’s the infants’ perplexing names. While many modern parents are giving their children questionable

Angles: Is humor appropriate in response to the death of a public figure?

Since the passing of Queen Elizabeth II on Sept. 8, 2022, it’s been difficult to go onto the internet without coming across some kind of joke related to the event, whether it be conspiracies about her reincarnation or Irish twitter poking fun at the Brits. But how appropriate is

Stickers add personality and life to ordinary objects

Stickers add personality and life to ordinary objects

I love stickers. As a preface, I am an international student. Back home in Ethiopia, the only type of stickers I would see daily were completely nonsensical phrases taxi drivers used to put everywhere on their vehicles, and I mean everywhere. Windows? Full of stickers. The hood? Overtaken by the

Patagonia paves way for corporate response to climate change

Patagonia paves way for corporate response to climate change

On Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022, Patagonia’s founder Yvon Chouinard gave away the company’s net worth of $3 billion to fight climate change, stating, “Earth is now our only shareholder” home. Patagonia created this new ownership strategy to prioritize its core values and tackle the environmental crisis as a