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Guide to the Weekend: Absolut-ly Cray Cray

Posted by on November 6, 2009 at 11:35 am

Picture 21Noice presents another installment of a Guide to the Weekend. Not too many ragefests this weekend but HOLY CRAP so many other things to do! Noice’s picks of the weekend? AAA’s “Absolut AAA” party (an ice bar and ice luge? awesome.) and the Battle of the Bands at the Queen’s Head Pub. Cheers!

FRIDAY

Bollywood Karaoke Night
Where: Straus Common Room
When: 8pm-10pm

MARAT/SADE
Where: Loeb Experimental Theater, 64 Brattle Street
When: 7:30pm

Brattle Fall Concert
Where: Paine Hall, Music Building
When: 8pm-9pm

Where the Wild Things Jam
Harvard Glee Club Lite featuring Radcliffe Choral Society ‘Cliffe Notes & HRCM Underground
Where: Lowell Lecture Hall
When: 8pm-10pm

MOMENTUM
When: 8pm
Where: Loeb Mainstage (American Repertory Theater)

ABSOLUT AAA
Where: Currier Treehouse
When: 10pm-2am

Read on for more events…

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LE WHIF: Chocolate You Can Huff!

Posted by on November 3, 2009 at 9:19 pm

technicalNoice was about to sit down to a dinner of french onion soup and crusty wholewheat bread when suddenly something equally french, but infinitely more tasty-looking caught our attention.

navlewhifheaderIntroducing LE WHIF, the product of the tireless of work of Harvard Professor David Edwards and his team of students. Edwards writes: “Over the centuries we’ve been eating smaller and smaller quantities at shorter and shorter intervals. It seemed to us that eating was tending toward breathing, so, with a mix of culinary art and aerosol science, we’ve helped move eating habits to their logical conclusion. We call it whiffing.” All sounds very odd to us, but here goes!

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The small lipstick sized plastic container fits comfortably in the hand and is very light. Pull it out, raise it to the lips and inhale! Suddenly a rush of the most delicious chocolate flavor as thousands of aerosol chocolate particles burst onto the tongue. LE WHIF comes in three awesome flavors (Noice loves them all very, very much): Dark (rich, creamy tasting) Chocolate, Mint Chocolate, and Raspberry Chocolate. Each LE WHIF is worth three or four shots (or whiffs?!) of chocolate heavenly-ness and, whilst you’re not enjoying the instant chocolate satisfaction, you can simply click it shut and pop it back into your manbag, purse, or pocket.

LE WHIF is doing the rounds in many of the upperclassmen houses so keep a look out and tell your friends. However, more importantly, come along to the Grand Opening of The Laboratory this Sunday 8th in the late afternoon and witness an incredible (and sometimes chocolaty) collision of art and science. Buy those tickets!

(If you’re interested in learning more about LE WHIF and the other amazing products by this group just go to www.lewhif.com and www.thelaboratory.harvard.edu)

Photos courtesy of www.lewhif.com

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Presenting: The Halloween Costume Contest

Posted by on October 30, 2009 at 5:27 pm

costumecontestWhether your costume is a generic slut, subtle pop-culture reference, or Drew Faust, send in your photos!

Prize:
1st place -$50 to b.good burgers and international fame. Delicious!
2nd place – Not a winner
3rd place – Nobody remembers

Deadline:
November 1st, 7:00pm

Send submissions to thehvoicemail@gmail.com. The winners will be announced November 2nd.

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You’re Gonna Feed Me BerryLine and Dino WHAT?!

Posted by on October 26, 2009 at 4:21 pm

They GLOW in the DARK.

They GLOW in the DARK.

Noice received a lovely invite from HUBSS today to a Halloween Social, featuring free BerryLine and…bioluminescent dinoflagellates?!

First thoughts:

Free BerryLine = Yessss.
Our own flask of bioluminescent dinoflagellates = WHAT IS THAT.
HUBSS = WHAT IS THIS.

For the rest of you non-sciencey types out there, dinoflagellates are tiny alien-looking wrigglers of horror. Okay fine, that definition is a failure. So let’s go to the trusty Wikipedia:

“The dinoflagellates are a large group of flagellate protists. Most are marine plankton, but they are common in fresh water habitats as well. They make up the largest group of eukaryotic algae aside from the diatoms.”

HUBSS is the Harvard Undergraduate Biological Sciences Society. Major props to them for bringing these glowing microbes of terror to the general Harvard undergrad population. For your own flask of glowy wriggly things, check out Ticknor Lounge this Friday from 7-9pm.

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[VES] Concentration, Concentration is the Game…

Posted by on October 22, 2009 at 5:49 pm

Starving Artist = Total Myth

Starving Artist = Total Myth. Besides, there's pizza.

VES? What’s VES? Well according to their website, they are  “the curricular home of a broad range of studio arts and more theoretical studies.” It’s the oft-maligned and sometimes under-appreciated Visual Arts (film/photo/studio/animation/etc.) department of Harvard University. For some of you, this idea is making you tingle. You might be going “Wait, what? You can make art at Harvard of all places? I, I don’t have to sell my soul to Mankiw?” Yes, honey. Yes, you can. But… there’s a catch!

The application to become a VES concentrator is due tomorrow in Carpenter Center 105.

But how will I ever decide the course of the rest of my life/career/time at harvard in just a few hours? Read the answer, after the jump!
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A Slice Of Class: Sweet and Sour… Lemons?

Posted by on October 21, 2009 at 12:36 am

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What a sour puss. Get it? Aww.

Occasionally our inner nerds (aka “innerds“) get so excited over a class that we feel everyone must know about it. Presenting “A Slice of Class” in which we highlight a particularly revelatory/exciting/OMG/WTF class or section:

It’s not every science section at Harvard that has one class entirely dedicated to eating lemon wedges, Oreos, strawberries, goat’s cheese, and to drinking vinegar. However, this was exactly what this went on in section this afternoon for Science of Living Systems 11 “The Molecules of Life”. Read more about how after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

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Notes From The Seneca Heckla’

Posted by on October 8, 2009 at 12:49 am

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!!!PUUURPLE!!!

Hot damn. Some crazy jonx went down at 45 Mt. Auburn earlier tonight.

It was the most rip-roarin’ event since the Big Bang. It was epic. It was Miltonian. It was… The Seneca Info Meeting.

Noice sent one of its bloggers (thaaat’s me!) to investigate the goings on of this semi-secretive and mostly just mind-bogglingly vague “women’s organization.”

Some of you may be wondering whether The Seneca is just a modified female final club with a paper application, or whether it’s a politically correct front for a money laundering scheme.

While I can’t guarantee that much information on the latter was gleaned, I bring to you the who-what-where and the who-wore-what of the information event of the week. Read more after the jump.

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