Spear-wielding chimps are in the news this week.
It seems that apes in Senegal have learned how to fashion sharp tools out of sticks. The chimps break off a tree branch, rip off its leaves, and then use their teeth to sharpen the end. They then use the spears to jab into hollow branches [...]

Dennis Lo ‘08 will be going on a road trip this spring break, but it won’t be the typical college vacation. Instead, he will be filming an original production with a crew of students and Bay Area professionals.
Lo, wa double major in physics and film studies, is directing “Overloaded,” a 35-minute film that will follow [...]

In Tuesday’s issue of the Daily, you published an editorial entitled “Howe could it come to this?” At the outset, the article seemed to be a critique of the Office of Student Activities (OSA), its services and policies. Instead, the writer veered into a misplaced attack on the staff member who is most clearly identified [...]

Just last week, a girl answered her cell phone in a 20-person lecture. And I began to think about all the other little things that make me cringe inside. So here is an incomplete list of things that rub me the wrong way, get my panties in a twist and leave me wondering if other [...]

I got this email from an old friend the other day. He was moving out to the West Coast and wanted to meet for coffee, catch up and maybe go see a ska show together. I was disturbed. I thought he, like the rest of my high school friends, had died.
This isn’t because New Jersey [...]

As evidenced by a major story in the Wall Street Journal, finding dirt on John Hennessy is no easy task. The article, which ran on the front page of the Feb. 24 weekend edition of the WSJ, was over 3000 words long and extensively focused on Hennessy’s business interests in Silicon Valley. What appears to [...]

Who will be the next Tree? That’s the question on the minds of people across campus as Tree Week stunts came to a conclusion yesterday with a flurry of activity during which candidates vied to become the next mascot of the Stanford Band.
As the morning’s blue skies morphed into a driving afternoon rainstorm, candidates performed [...]

Ever wished your car could drive itself? Meet “Junior,” the Stanford Racing Team’s entry for the 2007 Urban Challenge race sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
“Junior” is a 2006 Volkswagen Passat equipped with sensors, such as a range-finding laser array and video cameras that enable it to extract data from the environment.
“The [...]

The ASSU Undergraduate Senate heard from the Jewish Student Association (JSA) and Students Confronting Apartheid in Israel (SCAI) last night for and against a bill authored by Senator Nabill Idrisi ‘09 calling for the University to selectively divest from “companies that violate international law and abuse human rights in Israel and Palestine.”
Senators did not vote [...]

The night before Valentine’s Day, exactly 40 graduate students filed into an Escondido Village room with exactly 40 seats. But they weren’t there to play musical chairs — they were there to go speed dating.
Over the next two hours, as the air buzzed with voices each louder than the next, intrepid singles sold themselves — [...]