Yurina Ko

A safe space for smokers

Smoking spaces on campus benefit smokers and non-smokers alike.

By Yurina Ko | Dec 2 09:42 pm ET

An expert on nothing

Most undergrads aren’t experts in academic fields.

By Yurina Ko | Apr 27 06:52 pm ET

Brave new reader

It wasn’t until I came across the iBook feature that I started to think seriously about the social and philosophical implications of this product and others.

By Yurina Ko | Apr 13 06:42 pm ET

The Carnivore Manifesto

Rationalists like Descartes and Kant argued that if animals are not rational, they don’t deserve our ethical concern.

By Yurina Ko | Mar 30 06:47 pm ET

The elimination of Women's History Month in March, 2110

We can only imagine how marginal women’s literature must have been at Columbia back in those days.

By Yurina Ko | Mar 9 06:16 pm ET

The gold standard

Just as the skating rink invites a unique type of nationalism where a collective force is entirely invested in a represented individual, our families at home root for our success in college and employment.

By Yurina Ko | Feb 23 07:20 pm ET

A romance of many dimensions

While the 3-D media looks to be just a source of entertainment, it may soon become an outlet for emotions, which, psychology argues, are just as vulnerable and essential as organs to our survival.

By Yurina Ko | Feb 9 06:31 pm ET

Frontiers of philosophy

“Even professional scientists,” Albert Einstein remarked, “seem to me like somebody who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest.” When he said this in 1944, he was referring to a type of “independence created by philosophical insight” that scientists should consider diving into more often. It’s also been a wonder to me why academic institutions, including Columbia, separate the sciences from philosophy as strictly distinct disciplines, when both sides could actually grow more intellectually by communicating and overlapping a little more.

By Yurina Ko | Jan 26 10:13 pm ET

There will be time

There are simply too many books to read (or skim, at this point in the semester), too many papers to write, too many résumés to send out, and too many worries about final exams, jobs, the future, our lives, everything. All of this in what seems to be so little time.

By Yurina Ko | Dec 13 06:50 pm ET

Can’t read my poker face

I am a liar, and surrounded by many liars, too.

By Yurina Ko | Nov 29 10:00 pm ET

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