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Modern Toolbox: Bitcoin is using as much energy as Norway, but it doesn’t matter

Jaeyoung Choi March 24, 2021
Crypto mainly uses renewable energy, so there’s no reason to argue against this revolutionary tech.
A Boston University residence on Bay State Road. Nearly 1,000 BU students remain on campus, many of whom cannot return home because of travel restrictions or fears they could transmit the coronavirus to vulnerable family members. SOPHIE PARK/ DFP FILE

Students adapt to life on an empty campus

Angela Yang March 26, 2020
The sound of birds chirping on Commonwealth Avenue has grown clearer these past mornings with the typically bustling street now near-devoid of pedestrians and cars.
The International Students and Scholars Office at Boston University. Many international students feel that ISSO has not been communicative enough about its coronavirus travel and self-quarantine policies. SOPHIE PARK/ DFP FILE

Coronavirus outbreak means added concerns for international students

Sophia Yakumithis March 16, 2020
In light of the coronavirus pandemic, Boston University announced March 11 its decision to move all classes to a remote format until April 13 and asked that students not to return to campus after the conclusion of spring break.

Pardee Dean Adil Najam reflects on death of Sharat Kumar Nambiar, Pardee senior

Samantha Kizner January 29, 2020
Sharat Kumar Nambiar, a senior in the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, passed away in a car accident in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates on Dec. 25. Rohit Krishnakumar, Nambiar’s childhood friend and a university student in Britain, was also killed in the accident.
BERMAN: Let’s address the elephant in the room (possibly sitting next to Vladimir Putin)

BERMAN: Let’s address the elephant in the room (possibly sitting next to Vladimir Putin)

Max Berman April 6, 2017

Did Russia affect our election? Did the Trump campaign or Donald Trump himself collude with Russia? Did that golden shower thing really happen? The answers are, in order: it’s complicated, it’s complicated...

OOMMEN: Siderodromophobia

Daily Free Press Admin September 20, 2012

I have a slight fear of anything related to trains. It’s nothing too serious. I don’t start panicking or perspiring whenever I see train tracks, and I’ve never been rushed to the hospital because...

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