The Ithaca Festival Board of Directors recently held their annual public meeting on September 6, 2024. Following a petition by a local twelve-year-old named Leo,…
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big far away
By TARAN KNUTSON on September 2024
the stars in the sky don’t know we admire them; but they would appreciate our centuries our generations of pointing up and saying look, look,…
News Bites
By FREYJA HILL, TARAN KNUTSON on September 2024
Ithaca Children’s Garden Celebrates International Mud Day FREYJA HILL On June 29, the Ithaca Children’s Garden hosted its thirteenth annual celebration of International Mud Day.…
The 2025 New York Budget Investments Explained
By TARAN KNUTSON on June 2024
On Monday, April 22, New York State Governor Kathy Hochul finally announced the 2025 fiscal year state budget. Released after three weeks of extensions, Hochul…
Each Sign’s New Get-Rich-Quick Scheme
By TARAN KNUTSON on March 2024
Pisces (Feb 19 – Mar 20): You’ll stumble across an enormous supply of a commodity the whole country needs. Air. You’ll pack as much as…
Now
By TARAN KNUTSON on March 2024
And I thought the tall people could no longer live And I thought life’d have no more to give And I didn’t ‘get’ accomplishment and…
Dinosaur Egg
By TARAN KNUTSON on February 2024
you say i’m not sure but i never wanted to be sure. i never wanted to know exactly who i was. if i surprise you…
Your New House Decor, According to Your Star Sign
By TARAN KNUTSON, VALENTINA LEBRET on December 2023
Aries (Mar 21 – Apr 19): You’ll read a book about how caring for plants can help with stress, and suddenly you’ll have a watering…
Benches
By TARAN KNUTSON on November 2023
I didn’t need to sit— I could’ve gone on Soldiered forward folded my shoulder as it got colder and colder The bench didn’t need me—…
How Will Your Sign Stay Warm This Month?
By TARAN KNUTSON, ZADIE WANG on November 2023
Scorpio (Oct 23 – Nov 21): You think winter clothes are for suckers and instead will choose to wear four or five layered T-shirts. It…
Common Chess Tactics #1
By TARAN KNUTSON on October 2023
Chess strategy is generally categorized into positional and tactical play. Positional play is slow. It involves putting pieces onto good squares, restricting enemy movement, and…
In The Interest Of Balance – An Arsonist’s Perspective
By TARAN KNUTSON on September 2023
Editor’s note: The following article is intended as a joke and should not be interpreted as a legitimate defense of arson. Please do not commit…
Ding Liren Wins World Chess Championship
By TARAN KNUTSON on June 2023
On April 9, 2023, the World Chess Championship (WCC) began in Astana, Kazakhstan. Ding Liren of China and Ian Nepomniachtchi of Russia competed in a…
My Ideas For Conspiracy Theories
By TARAN KNUTSON on June 2023
Maybe… …the moon landing was real, but the moon takeoff was fake! …the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is secretly controlled by the…
GPT-4 Is Out, And It’s Writing Itself
By TARAN KNUTSON on May 2023
OpenAI unveiled its new multimodal AI language model, GPT-4, on March 14, 2023. This model is much more capable than its predecessors, scoring much higher…
New Language Models and Their Side Effects
By TARAN KNUTSON on March 2023
The use of AI (Artificial Intelligence) language models to write articles has been the subject of much discussion and interest recently, particularly with the release…
Are the Leaf- Eating Caterpillars of New York State Something to Worry About?
By TARAN KNUTSON on October 2022
Ithaca has seen a large population of leaf-eating caterpillars crawling everywhere around town this summer, and an outbreak of spongy moths continues in the state…