Month: November 2012

Rip and Read: A Mobile List

Enjoy a few suggestions from folks that we’re checking out on our mobiles while we’re on planes, trains, and riding in cars: A stunningly beautiful song and video – Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – “Same Love” feat. Mary Lambert: “The Baryshnikovs Of Jookin” by Alastair Macaulay Ted Talk by Clay Shirky on “Institutions vs. Collaboration”: […]

Reprise – Baby Got Boom? Sounds that Travel Well

A well-deserved (and short) break to spend time with family and friends deserves music during the down time. Music that will get everyone on the floor and dancing (if they aren’t talking). My playlist will get you, the children, mom, dad, and grandpa stompin’. These sugar-coated jams will make the dog howl and grandma say, […]

Bow Tie Revolution

Watch this video on YouTube Dressed in a blue oxford shirt and neatly-pressed khakis, Diego Torres-Palma looks like any other MBA student. But what sets the 26-year-old entrepreneurial engineer apart is his choice of neckwear. On this particular day, it happens to be a butterfly style, three-inch paisley silk bow tie. As cofounder of OoOTie […]

Puppy Love

Watch this video on YouTube Going abroad and in a relationship? BU Today consults one of the Dean’s assistant’s for advice.

This Year I’m Down With Voter Expression

If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show, ‘Twould not be you, Niagara–nor you, ye limitless prairies–nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado, Nor you, Yosemite–nor Yellowstone, with all its spasmic geyserloops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing, Nor Oregon’s white cones–nor Huron’s belt of mighty lakes–nor Mississippi’s […]