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The Rocky Mountain Collegian

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Stanford Students’ Bright Idea

September 9, 2013

Students at Stanford University in California have reinvented an object found in nearly everywhere in everyday life: the light bulb. The redesigned light switch, called Start.Home, was created as an...

The Cooperative Lifestyle

September 9, 2013

In a city like Fort Collins where there is the ever-present U+2 policy it can be hard to imagine living in a single house easily with upwards of 12 people. However, that is the everyday environment for...

The Dangers of Home Tattooing

September 6, 2013

Professional tattooing guarantees a certain level of artistic and medical safety. However, there is an increasingly large number of people doing tattoos from their home without training. The practice...

DC Proposes 24-Hour Waiting Period to Get Body Art

September 6, 2013

In an effort to create a more responsible tattooing and piercing community, officials in Washington D.C. have proposed a mandated 24-hour waiting period before customers are able to get body art. According...

Reinventing and Renovating the Water Tower

September 6, 2013

If modern houses are becoming to mundane for your architectural needs, it may be worthwhile to draw some inspiration from io9's compilation of multi-story water towers that are being renovated as loft-esque...

Hooked On Relaxation

September 3, 2013

Have you worn out all options to defeat college stress? Good news, the Brentwood, CA based Anti-Gravity Relaxation Organization may have just the method you’re looking for: swinging from hooks by your...

We Might be Aliens

September 3, 2013

According to Steven Benner, a chemist at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution in Florida, men may not be the only ones from Mars.   Benner’s claim stems from the scientific idea that...

Arkansas’s Ban on Body Modification

September 3, 2013

A bill sponsored by Senator Missy Irvin may cause Arkansas residents seeking scarification and dermal procedures to go out-of-state for such modifications. The bill, dubbed by the Senate SB 387, passed...

Smartphone Compatible Tattoos

September 2, 2013

There may be a new option in tattoos on the horizon for our gadget obsessed generation: imbedded chips that display gifs only viewable from a smartphone. Artist Anthony Antonellis has created a chip...

Israeli Holocaust Memorial Tattoos

Israeli Holocaust Memorial Tattoos

September 2, 2013

As first-hand experiences of concentration camps in Nazi Germany fade into the past, the children and grandchildren of Israeli survivors have adopted memorial tattoos of their family’s struggle. In...

Tattoos: Artwork that Lasts a Lifetime

Tattoos: Artwork that Lasts a Lifetime

September 2, 2013

If you have looked around campus recently it may seem as if everyone has some degree of ink. This is not just a misperception or a trend specific for CSU’s student body. The art has become so popular...

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