Meeting Mattress
byOn the bleakest day of February, also known as Valentine’s Day and Oregon’s Birthday, I met Mattress (aka Rex Marshall, Circulation and Collection Maintenance…
Education
4th Annual Portland Winter Light Festival
byThe 4th annual Portland Winter Light Festival came to brighten the cityscape through the early February winter, once again taking over the darkness with…
A Bee Or Not A Bee?
Bee populations are in decline; what do we really know?
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BEE BRIEF Invertebrates may be spineless, but they run this planet. “All animals in the world are invertebrates,” joked Dr. Susan Masta, associate biology professor…
Contextualizing Boghossian
The conversation about the hoax articles requires more context
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In anything, the truth is much harder to find than we think. If we talk about photography, even news photos, the photo shouldn’t necessarily…
Is Civil Discourse in Its Death Throes
Backlash to Boghossian's hoax articles raises censorship questions
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From fall 2017 through autumn of 2018, Dr. Peter Boghossian, philosophy professor at Portland State University, and coauthors Dr. James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose…
A Place Called Home: From Vanport to Albina
Vanport Mosaic's event lets Black Portlanders tell their experience in their own words
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Additional reporting by Margo Craig Vanport Mosaic is a community-driven non-profit working to “amplify, collect, honor, preserve and present the many silenced histories of…
Library Archives
PSU has portals to its past, and we're all invited
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What would your college experience be like without a severe lack of awareness about the cool resources your school has to offer? Because our…
First Confirmed Evidence of Dinosaurs in Oregon
byImagine wandering through central Oregon 100 million years ago. You look to the West, expecting to see more land, but suddenly realize you are…
A Student Sails the Seas
byAs a student, I have spent day after day trying to pave my path in the world, trying to discern my deep passions from…