Questa è una lista ufficiale, aggiornata ogni anno dal Cornell Daily Sun. Dubito che qualcuno sia mai stato capace di completarla, ma la sfida è sempre piacevole.
(2015 – at graduation 72)
(2010 – 56 checked)
o 1. Make the library into your bedroom and have sex in the stacks
o 2. Finally meet the dazzling Denice Cassaro
o 3. Camp out overnight (re: sleep on AstroTurf) for hockey tickets
o 4. Go to the Cornell-Harvard men’s hockey game and throw fish on the ice
o 5. Sing along to “We didn’t go to Harvard” with the Cayuga’s Waiters
o 6. Sled down Libe Slope during a snow storm
o 7. Take Hotel Administration 430: Introduction to Wines
o 8. Streak across the Arts Quad
o 9. Take Psych 101
o 10. Test out Olin Library’s musically calibrated steps by throwing stones on them
o 11. Attempt sake bombing at Plum Tree or Miyake in Collegetown
o 12. Order ice cream at the Dairy Bar
o 13. Climb the rock wall in Bartels Hall
o 14. Listen to a full chimes concert from the clock tower and guess the songs played
o 15. Register for classes during Freshman Orientation, then switch out of every single one by the time Add/Drop ends
o 16. Wear flip-flops to class in January
o 17. Go to the Fuertes Observatory on North Campus and gaze at meteor showers [actually was the worst spot ever]
o 18. Have a snowball fight in May
o 19. Milk a cow
o 20. Skip class to play frisbee on the Arts Quad
o 21. Bury a bottle of Bacardi on the Slope. Dig it up on Slope Day.
o 22. Pick apples at the Cornell Orchards
o 23. Attend the Apple Festival on the Commons
o 24. Flirt with your professor
o 25. Bomb a prelim
o 26. Ace the next one to save your grade
o 27. Attend Hotelie prom
o 28. Meet Happy Dave from Okenshield’s
o 29. Turn your face blue from screaming at midnight before the first finals
o 30. Get heartburn at the Chili Cook-off on the Commons
o 31. Enjoy Ithaca’s two months of warm weather — spend a summer here!
o 32. Go to a Shabbat dinner at 104 West (CornellCard it)
o 33. Watch the AAP students parade down East Avenue on Dragon Day
o 34. Enjoy corn nuggets at The Nines
o 35. Build a snow penis or count how many you see around campus
o 36. Dress up and view The Rocky Horror Picture Show at Risley
o 37. Take a class you think is impossible just for fun
o 38. Go on a wine tour
o 39. Kiss on the suspension bridge at midnight
o 40. Sleep through your alarm for a 1:25 class
o 41. Shop at the Friends of the Library Book Sale
o 42. Get out of a University parking ticket
o 43. Buy an Ithaca Is Gorges t-shirt, then get sick of wearing it and buy a variation (Ithaca Is Gangsta, Vaginas Are Gorges, Ithaca Is Long Island …)
o 44. Learn the “Alma Mater,” “Evening Song” and “Give My Regards to Davy”
o 45. Attend an opening at the Johnson Museum of Art
o 46. Smuggle food from the dining hall and run for your life as they try to get back your stolen cookies
o 47. Do the Walk of Shame
o 48. Have dinner at a professor’s house
o 49. Get wasted at a professor’s house
o 50. Have lunch with President Skorton in Trillium; ask if he’s done with that burger
o 51. Play a game of tag in the Kroch Library stacks
o 52. See a play in the Schwartz Center
o 53. Rush the field at the last home football game of the season
o 54. Attend a Cornell Night
o 55. Gamble at Turning Stone (try not to lose money)
o 56. Watch dancers fly through the air at a Bhangra show
o 57. Have a midnight picnic in the Cornell Plantations (n.d.AF watched stars)
o 58. Wait in line for half an hour for a salad at the Terrace
o 59. Ignore any and all “No Winter Maintenance” signs … slip and fall on the icy stairs
o 60. Sit in Libe Café when you have no work to do and watch the worried studiers down gallons of coffee
o 61. Write an angry letter to the editor of The Sun
o 62. Go to Wegmans on a Friday or Saturday night
o 63. Explore the secret underground tunnel between Uris and Olin libraries
o 64. See the library’s Rare Book Collection
o 65. Pretend you are Harry Potter and study in the Law School library (looks like Hogwarts)
o 66. See the brain collection in Uris Hall
o 67. Eat at Taverna Banfi (formerly Banfi’s) and charge it to CornellCard
o 68. Buy beer at Jason’s in Collegetown and charge it to CityBucks
o 69. Take PAPL 2010: Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds
o 70. Take part in a psychology experiment
o 71. Take an unplanned nap in a library
o 72. Take over a building
o 73. According to legend, watch a virgin cross the Arts Quad and then witness A.D. White and Ezra Cornell shake hands
o 74. Live through an Ithaca blizzard and tell your friends how you survived frostbite
o 75. Throw a flaming pumpkin into the gorge
o 76. Play co-ed intramural innertube water polo (underwater hockey(
o 77. Spend all your lectures figuring out the day’s Sudoku. While sitting for the final, wish you had taken notes instead.
o 78. Hook up with your T.A. (kind of)
o 79. Order a PMP at the Hot Truck
o 80. Play trivia at Ruloff’s on Sunday nights
o 81. Go back for karaoke night on Monday
o 82. Dress in pastels for ’80s Night on Tuesdays at Johnny O’s
o 83. Hit up Group Therapy on Wednesdays at Dunbar’s
o 84. Go bowling at Helen Newman Lanes
o 85. Hand out quartercards on Ho Plaza
o 86. Drive your car up and down Libe Slope or Ho Plaza
o 87. Have a friend’s parents take you out to eat at John Thomas Steakhouse or Boatyard Grill
o 88. Eat a chicken parm sandwich from Louie’s Lunch
o 89. Eat breakfast at 2 a.m. at the State Diner
o 90. Males: Get thrown out of Balch Hall
o 91. Hook up with a freshman
o 92. Go skinny dipping in a gorge
o 93. Walk to the Commons and back
o 94. Go to an a cappella concert
o 95. Eat in the Risley dining hall
o 96. Write a message on the wall at Collegetown Pizza
o 97. Sell back your books; use money to buy alcohol
o 98. Drink bubble tea
o 99. Eat a Pinesburger
o 100. Walk to a fraternity party with your entire freshman floor
o 101. Go to a fraternity party as a senior; convince yourself you were never one of them
o 102. Get lost in Collegetown during Orientation Week
o 103. Get negged at a bar because the bouncer is actually friends with the person whose I.D. you are using
o 104. See a foreign film at Cinemapolis or Fall?Creek Theater
o 105. Eat mongo at RPCC
o 106. See a concert at Barton Hall
o 107. Gain the freshman 15, pay $300 for a gym membership and don’t go
o 108. Eat brunch on North Campus
o 109. Do your Freshman Reading Project before you graduate
o 110. Fail your swim test, just for kicks
o 111. Tailgate for homecoming
o 112. Be a model in the Cornell?Design League’s annual fashion show
o 113. Host a prefrosh
o 114. Request a song to be played on the clock tower
o 115. Get guilt-tripped into giving blood
o 116. Get asked if you are pregnant at Gannett (males and females)
o 117. Drink with your R.A.
o 118. Make a chalking; weep when it rains that night
o 119. Sing drunk on the drunk bus
o 120. Meet Bill Nye ’77, “The Science Guy,” and give him a hug
o 121. See how long you can go without doing laundry
o 122. Go on a road trip to Canada, flirt with the border patrol, smuggle booze back
o 123. Try to order pizza from a Blue Light phone
o 124. Go to the sex shop on the Commons
o 125. Get drunk on Slope Day, run into Vice President Susan Murphy ’73
o 126. Complain about the Slope Day headliners
o 127. Get tapped for a secret society
o 128. Go to Pyramid Mall, realize it is severely lacking, then drive to Carousel Mall in Syracuse
o 129. Attend Cross Country Gourmet at a dining hall near you
o 130. Complain about your writing seminar to no one in particular
o 131. Walk holding hands around Beebe Lake
o 132. Visit the Sciencenter
o 133. Watch a soccer game at Mama T’s, crammed in like a sardine
o 134. Get J.A.’d for urinating on the Law School
o 135. Hook up with someone randomly and then see them every day afterward
o 136. Go to a coffee house in JAM
o 137. See how many people you can cram into your dorm room
o 138. Watch people play Dance Dance Revolution in Appel
o 139. Write dirty messages with rocks in the gorge
o 140. Ride a horse at Oxley Equestrian Center
o 141. Ring the giant bell in the Plantations
o 142. Crash a political rally on Ho Plaza
o 143. Do the COE ropes course
o 144. Attend a show at the State Theatre
o 145. Prank call the CIT HelpDesk
o 146. Wake up at 7 a.m. for CoursEnroll; realize that your choice classes are full anyway
o 147. Ski at Greek Peak
o 148. Take a night prelim near the vet school, walk back in the dark
o 149. Trespass on Alumni Fields
o 150. Ask Uncle Ezra a question
o 151. Take the BASICS program
o 152. Walk to class in the snow, uphill both ways
o 153. Buy a Cornell-grown apple from a vending machine
o 154. Furnish an apartment entirely with items from the Dump & Run
o 155. Eat at each dining hall at least once
o 156. Ask for an extension on a term paper
o 157. Take part in Holi and get colorful
o 158. Prepare to pull an all-nighter in the Uris Library Cocktail Lounge by drinking three Mountain Dews and two cups of coffee, then eating a handful of No-Doz; accomplish nothing due to an inability to sit still
o 159. Tell a professor what you really think of his/her class
o 160. Attend a Sun organizational meeting: Go to cornellsun.com for details
o 161. Climb all 161 steps to the top of McGraw Tower
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For getting around during winter, the Inuit here nowadays prefer snowmobiles, although they still keep their sled dogs. During winter they’ll offer intrepid visitors, wrapped up warm against the deep-freeze temperatures, dog-sledding jaunts. These can last either an hour or be part of expeditions over several days, sometimes with the added experience of learning how to build an igloo. Sisimiut on the west coast and Tasilaq in the southeast are active winter centers for dog sledding.
Winter’s most stellar attraction, though, is northern lights watching. With little urban light pollution, Greenland is a dark canvas for spectacular displays, and aurora borealis-watching vacations are becoming more popular.
Staying outdoors, Greenland is developing a reputation among adventure enthusiasts: from long-distance skiing expeditions and heliskiing on the icecap to hiking the 100-mile-long Arctic Circle Trail from Kangerslussuaq, where firearms need to be carried for warning shots in case of polar bear encounters.
Life is definitely changing here. The climate crisis is eating away at its icecap and Greenland may well end up as a pawn in a game of geopolitical chess. But for now, the bright glare of international attention should shine a favorable light on one of the wildest travel destinations on Earth.
Travel writer Mark Stratton is an Arctic specialist who has traveled to Greenland six times and counting. He’s marveled at the aurora borealis, sailed to Disko Island, dog-sledded with the Inuit, and once got stuck in an icefloe.
Tesla is bringing its electric cars to oil-rich Saudi Arabia amid falling global sales
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Tesla will start selling its electric vehicles in Saudi Arabia, entering the Gulf region’s largest economy as the company’s global sales are sliding and CEO Elon Musk courts controversy with his role in the US government.
The carmaker announced Wednesday that it would host a launch event in the kingdom on April 10, where it will showcase its EVs. Attendees will also have the chance to “experience the future of autonomous driving with Cybercab and meet Optimus, our humanoid robot, as we showcase what’s next in AI and robotics,” Tesla (TSLA) said.
Tesla may struggle to gain market share in oil-rich Saudi Arabia as EVs make up a little over 1% of all car sales in the country, according to a report by consultancy PwC published in September.
Tesla’s entry into the new market comes as the company fights battles on several fronts.
Last year, it recorded the first annual decline in sales in its history as a public company, posting a drop of 1%.
The company is facing intensifying competition in China, the world’s largest auto market. On Tuesday, BYD, a Chinese maker of electric and hybrid cars, reported $107 billion in annual sales for 2024, beating the near-$98 billion notched by Tesla.
And last week, BYD unveiled an ultra-fast charging system, which it said was capable of adding 250 miles (402 km) of range in just five minutes, easily outdoing Tesla’s charging technology. Tesla’s Superchargers take 15 minutes to charge an EV, providing a range of 200 miles.
Tesla has also suffered slumping sales in Europe. In February, the carmaker sold around 40% fewer vehicles on the continent compared with the same month in 2024, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association.
Curiosity has maintained pristine pieces of the Cumberland sample in a “doggy bag” so that the team could have the rover revisit it later, even miles away from the site where it was collected. The team developed and tested innovative methods in its lab on Earth before sending messages to the rover to try experiments on the sample.
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In a quest to see whether amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, existed in the sample, the team instructed the rover to heat up the sample twice within SAM’s oven. When it measured the mass of the molecules released during heating, there weren’t any amino acids, but they found something entirely unexpected.
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The team was surprised to detect small amounts of decane, undecane and dodecane, so it had to conduct a reverse experiment on Earth to determine whether these organic compounds were the remnants of the fatty acids undecanoic acid, dodecanoic acid and tridecanoic acid, respectively.
The scientists mixed undecanoic acid into a clay similar to what exists on Mars and heated it up in a way that mimicked conditions within SAM’s oven. The undecanoic acid released decane, just like what Curiosity detected.
Each fatty acid remnant detected by Curiosity was made with a long chain of 11 to 13 carbon atoms. Previous molecules detected on Mars were smaller, meaning their atomic weight was less than the molecules found in the new study, and simpler.
“It’s notable that non-biological processes typically make shorter fatty acids, with less than 12 carbons,” said study coauthor Dr. Amy Williams, associate professor of geology at the University of Florida and assistant director of the Astraeus Space Institute, in an email. “Larger and more complex molecules are likely what are required for an origin of life, if it ever occurred on Mars.”
While the Cumberland sample may contain longer chains of fatty acids, SAM is not designed to detect them. But SAM’s ability to spot these larger molecules suggests it could detect similar chemical signatures of past life on Mars if they’re present, Williams said.
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“Curiosity is not a life detection mission,” Freissinet said. “Curiosity is a habitability detection mission to know if all the conditions were right … for life to evolve. Having these results, it’s really at the edge of the capabilities of Curiosity, and it’s even maybe better than what we had expected from this mission.”
Before sending missions to Mars, scientists didn’t think organic molecules would be found on the red planet because of the intensity of radiation Mars has long endured, Glavin said.
Curiosity won’t return to Yellowknife Bay during its mission, but there are still pristine pieces of the Cumberland sample aboard. Next, the team wants to design a new experiment to see what it can detect. If the team can identify similar long-chain molecules, it would mark another step forward that might help researchers determine their origins, Freissinet said.
“That’s the most precious sample we have on board … waiting for us to run the perfect experiment on it,” she said. “It holds secrets, and we need to decipher the secrets.”
Briony Horgan, coinvestigator on the Perseverance rover mission and professor of planetary science at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, called the detection “a big win for the whole team.” Horgan was not involved the study.
“This detection really confirms our hopes that sediments laid down in ancient watery environments on Mars could preserve a treasure trove of organic molecules that can tell us about everything from prebiotic processes and pathways for the origin of life, to potential biosignatures from ancient organisms,” Horgan said.
Dr. Ben K.D. Pearce, assistant professor in Purdue’s department of Earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences and leader of the Laboratory for Origins and Astrobiology Research, called the findings “arguably the most exciting organic detection to date on Mars.” Pearce did not participate in the research.
A federal judge on Tuesday afternoon temporarily blocked part of the Trump administration’s plans to freeze all federal aid, a policy that unleashed confusion and worry from charities and educators even as the White House said it was not as sweeping an order as it appeared.
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A more organic way to see this coast is by the multi-day coastal ferry, the long-running Sarfaq Ittuk, of the Arctic Umiaq Line. It’s less corporate than the modern cruise ships and travelers get to meet Inuit commuters. Greenland is pricey. Lettuce in a local community store might cost $10, but this coastal voyage won’t break the bank.
The hot ticket currently for exploring Greenland’s wilder side is to head to the east coast facing Europe. It’s raw and sees far fewer tourists, with a harshly dramatic coastline of fjords where icebergs drift south. There are no roads and the scattered population of just over 3,500 people inhabit a coastline roughly the distance from New York to Denver.
A growing number of small expedition vessels probe this remote coast for its frosted scenery and wildlife. Increasingly popular is the world’s largest fjord system of Scoresby Sound with its sharp-fanged mountains and hanging valleys choked by glaciers. Sailing north is the prosaically named North East Greenland National Park, fabulous for spotting wildlife on the tundra.
Travelers come to see polar bears which, during the northern hemisphere’s summer, move closer to land as the sea-ice melts. There are also musk oxen, great flocks of migrating geese, Arctic foxes and walrus.
Some of these animals are fair game for the local communities. Perhaps Greenland’s most interesting cultural visit is to a village that will take longer to learn how to pronounce than actually walk around — Ittoqqortoormiit. Five hundred miles north of its neighboring settlement, the 345 locals are frozen in for nine months of the year. Ships sail in to meet them during the brief summer melt between June and August.
Locked in by ice, they’ve retained traditional habits.
“My parents hunt nearly all their food,” said Mette Barselajsen, who owns Ittoqqortoormiit’s only guesthouse. “They prefer the old ways, burying it in the ground to ferment and preserve it. Just one muskox can bring 440 pounds of meat.”
Siham Haleem, a private tour guide for 15 years, says that Doha now has many world-class, modern museums — the National Museum of Qatar being a firm personal favorite. And yet he says that visiting Sheikh Faisal’s museum should still be on everybody’s to-do list.
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“For those eager to learn about Qatar’s — and the region’s — heritage and beyond, the museum is an ideal destination,” he says. “Personally, I’m captivated by the car collection, the fossils, and especially the Syrian house, painstakingly transported and reassembled piece by piece.”
Stephanie Y. Martinez, a Mexican-American student mobility manager at Texas A&M University in Qatar likes the museum so much she includes it on all of her itineraries for students visiting from the main campus in Texas.
“The guided tours are very detailed, and the collections found at the museum have great variety and so many stories to unfold,” she says. “Truly, the museum has something to pique everyone’s interest. My favorites are the cars and the furniture exhibits showcasing wood and mother-of-pearl details. Definitely one of my favorite museums in Qatar, every time I visit I learn something new.”
Raynor Abreu, from India, also had praise for the unusual and immense collection.
“Each item has its own story, making the visit even more interesting,” he says. “It’s also impressive to know that Sheikh Faisal started collecting these unique pieces when he was very young. Knowing this makes the museum even more special, as it reflects his lifelong passion for history and culture.”
It takes time and dedication to truly examine the many collections within the museum — especially since most of them are simply on display without explanation.
Eclectic it may be, but it’s hard to fault the determination of Sheikh Faisal, who has brought together items that tell the story of Qatar and the Middle East.
Sarah Bayley, from the UK, says she visited the museum recently with her family, including 16 and 19-year-old teenagers, and was won over by its sheer eccentricity.
“Amazing. Loved it. It is a crazy place.”