Annual speaker event TEDxUF sells out
In an hour and 20 minutes, TEDxUF 2016 sold out Wednesday night.
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In an hour and 20 minutes, TEDxUF 2016 sold out Wednesday night.
DJ Khaled has become an Internet sensation through his Snapchat and other social media pages, so you may have forgotten he’s actually a DJ. Khaled has been in the game for over a decade and has become one of the best of in the rap game without actually rapping. DJ Khaled is an extremely successful DJ who got his start on Miami’s WEDR radio station and eventually released eight studio albums and appears on a number of hit singles. DJ Khaled will be performing in the Reitz Union tomorrow night at the Big Orange Fest, so here’s a quick roundup to get you ready.
Jim Konish
Ray Tomlinson, the American computer programmer credited for inventing email, died of a heart attack at the age of 74 on Saturday.
Ever since Gainesville Police Officer Bobby White played basketball with local kids and became an Internet celebrity, he decided to use the sport to mend what he called a broken relationship between youth and police.
Pirates have been around for more than 2,000 years. From the olive coasts of ancient Greece to the years of Viking dominance from A.D. 500 to A.D. 1050 and far beyond the classic bearded fellows of the Caribbean in the 18th century, the act of piracy is not new. Items of significant value will always have a market; it’s just that not everyone in the market will want to pay.
Today we have a new president.
What frustrates a student enough to deface university property? Organic chemistry, apparently.
UF professor finds pesticide for disease-carrying mosquitoes
Fans of Kanye West have had quite the month: As we discussed in the last Darts & Laurels of January, the pre-release hype leading up to the Saturday release of his new album, “The Life of Pablo,” has been rife with petty Twitter feuds, grandiose promises and more fits and starts than college students begrudgingly trying to write their term papers. The PR campaign — if it could even be called that — reached its manic climax last Thursday, when the album premiered alongside West’s clothing line at the Yeezy Season 3 fashion event in Madison Square Garden. Unfortunately for those who spent their time and/or money on the show, the album was as half-baked as its promotion.
"Lust and learning. That’s really all there is, isn’t it?”
Cheers erupted in a crowded room of about 60 students after UF’s Supreme Court ruled to allow an amendment for online voting to appear on the Spring 2016 election ballot Thursday night.
National Signing Day ended on a lukewarm note for Florida.
Keys Residential Complex residents will have to wait until Fall 2016 to do laundry.
We now return to our regularly scheduled programming: After two weeks of nothing but Darts OR Laurels, we’re happy to say that the past week not only dished out the good and the bad in equal measure, but did so with gusto. For a change, we’ve actually found ourselves with too much to cover. So without further ado, here’s this week’s edition of …
My Facebook is a cesspool of unwanted information. Whether it’s a paragraph-long status or a link to a BuzzFeed list called “20 things every 20-something should know,” my news feed always has something new for me not to care about. If Facebook didn’t occasionally facilitate conversations with people I’ve lost touch with, I would probably delete my account.
A payday loan is a short term and unsecured loan issued on the grounds of the consumer having payroll and employment records.
Advancements in technology, particularly the birth of the internet, hugely contributed to the method of sharing info. Now more than ever, expressing your ideas, feelings, reactions, and opinions about various problems is difficult but supported as well considering that it is the fuel that drives the social media. Some of the popular medium to let your voice be heard and to get across your message is by blogging. You essentially possess the opportunity to share anything you want to a much wider audience by posting a blog; there is no hard and fast rule on how to start a blog nor is there any qualification essential to create one.
Its directly out of a Hollywood movie, you see a table of guys with cigars in a serious game of cards. What could they be playing that requires attention and much focus? Of course, they are playing Blackjack. And there is no other game on earth that they'd rather be playing .Some guys can go at it for days at a time, while there are those that have spent their lives attempting to master the skill of Blackjack.
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