Mr. Brenneman, we hear your pain. A day without the possibility of bacon cheeseburgers is a day without much hope of Meliora (the pursuit of betterment). Instead, we have arrived at bitterment. In my effort to improve the world before I finally leave the campus (die), I pledge a pound of bacon if you can get them to cook it. I think keeping it as a stealth menu choice may relieve the sous chef of angst and culpability. In Meliora.

-J. Ty DibbleClass of 1973



Dietary liberation

If you are a more food-safe person than myself, you may see the obvious issue with adding raw meat to a cooked dish. In theory, this should be fine, assuming you wait for the meat to cook through.

Interpreting speech prosody in neurodivergence

As we go about our everyday lives, we unconsciously pick up cues when talking to people — through this process, we can determine a speaker’s emotion relatively confidently from just their tone or pitch, especially if they are someone close to us.

Pesto is sus

This guy is twice as large as any of his siblings and even larger than his parents. He is anything but a little guy. His stature is … actually a little bit suspicious.