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Here is my best attempt at capturing the past 9 weeks in all its glory: the struggles, the readings, the essays, the laughs, the twerks, the everything.

Remember when we were in our dorms and looked up our schedule and found out that we got into Poor Taste and were like,

Remember how it was...

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Earlier this week, Paul Lamere of The Echo Nest released a map showing the most distinctive artist in each state, meaning the unique artist that each state listened to more than any other state. After many outlets declared this map to show each state...

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Research suggests that after a basic standard of quality is met, what becomes a success and what doesn't is essentially a matter of chance.

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Big publications ignore romance partly because it's largely written and read by women. It's time to end the bias

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A yearlong investigation of Greek houses reveals their endemic, lurid, and sometimes tragic problems—and a sophisticated system for shifting the blame.

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When you tell a joke and make the whole class laugh

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What readers who take offense at unfamiliar words and challenging books are telling us about our culture

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Some students at the Massachusetts college said they were frightened when they saw the life-like outdoor statue because they thought it was real.

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America's baddest bad girl doesn't care what you think of her.

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Genre and anti-genre, satisfaction and subversion. Why Community is so much fun for me as a geek, why TBBT isn't, and why I'm actually into that, (but you don't have to be.) I'm going to try and defend TBBT too, but defending TBBT turns out to look a lot like trashing TBBT, so something here for everyone.I don't want to generalize about Science Fiction and Fantasy, because they're very big genres with a lot of different and interesting things going on in them, but I'm going to do it a bit anyway. I think Community speaks not just to a certain classic, basic genre narrative - the band of outcasts who come together in the extraordinary place for a story of personal growth - but also to a certain genre ideology, if you will - an ideology of change and possibility.