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-Emma Farnan | Wednesday, November 14, 2018
On Oct. 30, NASA announced that one of the most iconic and influential telescopes ever to exist has run out of fuel. The Kepler Telescope was launched in March 2009 with the intent to discover Earth-sized planets orbiting other stars. Kepler did this using the “transient method” which detects the relative dimming of a star
Emma Farnan | Wednesday, October 10, 2018
The past year of my life has been incredibly exciting and eye-opening. In addition to expanding my academic horizon with every other student at Notre Dame, I have also taken medically prescribed hormones each day to physically transition into a woman. I am transgender and have finally been living as myself, a woman, for the
Emma Farnan | Thursday, December 7, 2017
What is the largest finite number that you can think of? Maybe some of you will know what a googol is, which is 10^100 so basically a one with 100 zeros after it. Some may even have heard of a googolplex which is 10^googol. Yes this is a huge number but it can be conceived
Emma Farnan | Friday, November 10, 2017
People would not normally call me a fiscally responsible individual — not because I am poor at budgeting, but more because I am rather lackadaisical about my exact finances. For this reason, I am hardly ever the one to talk about taxes or other financial situations, and that is why this column should be something
Emma Farnan | Friday, March 31, 2017
If you have never been to a large music festival of the music genre of your liking then I feel bad for you son, I’ve got 99 problems and attending a festival ain’t one. This past weekend, I had the pleasure of spending the weekend in Miami attending Ultra Music Festival, a three-day EDM (electronic
Emma Farnan | Wednesday, February 22, 2017
“We choose to go to the Moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” These are the words that President John F. Kennedy pronounced to the American people while speaking at Rice University on Sept. 12, 1962.
Emma Farnan | Friday, February 10, 2017
There have been numerous debates on a wide number of societal debates over the past year. I hesitate to call them debates, though. Instead, it seems more like a shouting match in which opposing views try to “win the argument” by drowning out the opposing view. By definition, a debate is a “discussion involving both
Emma Farnan | Thursday, January 26, 2017
Among the list of things that Notre Dame values most, four are Catholic values, the endowment, the Honor Code and community. This last one has recently come under attack by changes made on campus. This might sound appalling, but it is true — or it at least has the potential to expand out and destroy the
