Forgot how much fun it is to shoot—especially sports. Great time trolling the sidelines of the Syracuse football game this past Sunday! A few creme of the crop photos are available here.
Check out the game recap here.
The Daily Orange
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Incredibly excited for the opportunity to have a weekly sex and health column for Syracuse University's daily student newspaper, The Daily Orange.
Check out my profile here: http://dailyorange.com/writers/jillian-thaw/
And this week's topic, extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation, is directly found here!
Always so amazing to get a chance to do what you love.
Check out my profile here: http://dailyorange.com/writers/jillian-thaw/
And this week's topic, extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation, is directly found here!
Always so amazing to get a chance to do what you love.
L'ecrivain gastronomique
Monday, June 24, 2013
After 3 weeks in France and Norway all I want to do is study and read about food--but from a different angle. Time to further my passion here, especially given I start graduate school in a few days!
1. Le Guide Culinaire - Auguste Escoffier
2. The Art of French Cooking - Julia Child
3. La Repertoire de la Cuisine - Louis Saulnier
4. Larousse Gastronomique: The World's Greatest Encyclopedia - Libraire Larousse
5. The Flavor Bible - Karen Page
6. World Atlas of Wine - Hugh Johnson
7. French Provincial Cooking - Elizabeth David
8. Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well - Pellegrino Artusi
9. French Women Don't Get Fat - Mireille Guiliano
10. The New Food Lovers' Companion - Rob Herbst
11. The Cheese Lovers' Companion - Sharon Tyler Herbst
12. Cheese Primer - Steven Jenkins
1. Le Guide Culinaire - Auguste Escoffier
2. The Art of French Cooking - Julia Child
3. La Repertoire de la Cuisine - Louis Saulnier
4. Larousse Gastronomique: The World's Greatest Encyclopedia - Libraire Larousse
5. The Flavor Bible - Karen Page
6. World Atlas of Wine - Hugh Johnson
7. French Provincial Cooking - Elizabeth David
8. Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well - Pellegrino Artusi
9. French Women Don't Get Fat - Mireille Guiliano
10. The New Food Lovers' Companion - Rob Herbst
11. The Cheese Lovers' Companion - Sharon Tyler Herbst
12. Cheese Primer - Steven Jenkins
Booklist IV
Thursday, April 25, 2013
- Drop Dead Healthy – AJ Jacobs
- Cooked - Michael Pollan
- The Beauty Myth - Naomi Wolf
- Secrets You Keep From Yourself - Dan Neuharth
- The Beauty Experiment – Phoebe Baker Hyde
- The First 20 Minutes – Gretchen Reynolds
- King Leopold's Ghost - Adam Hochschild
- The Social Animal – David Brooks
- Anatomy of Violence - Adrian Rains
- Why We Get Fat - Gary Taubes
- Food Politics - Michael Pollan
- Flight Behavior - Barbara Kingsolver
- The Emperor of All Maladies - Siddhartha Mukherjee
- Which Comes First, Cardio or Weights? –Alex Hutchinson
- Suicide by Sugar - Nancy Appleton; G. N. Jacobs
- The Vitamin D Revolution - Soram Khalsa
- In Defense of Food - Michael Pollan
- Collapse - Jared Diamond
- Buddha in Blue Jeans - Tai Sheridan
- Food Politics - Marion Nestle
- What to Eat - Marion Nestle
- Skinny - Diana Spechler
- Food Justice - Gottlieb and Joshi
- Dad is Fat - Jim Gaffigan (audiobook)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglass Adams (audiobook)
- You Just Don't Understand! – Deborah Tannen
- Mindless Eating - Brian Wanskins
- Fat Land - Greg Critsen
- The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan
- The Best Advice I Ever Got - Katie Couric
Reading a lot of nonfiction (as usual) and preparing for summer with some fiction but also for my start at Syracuse University's Newhouse School in July by all the Michael Pollan (<3). This is the last booklist for a long while, because the next few books I'll be reading are going to be textbooks!
HOLY COW!
HOLY COW!
Green Global Travel
Thursday, February 28, 2013
I did forget to mention that I have been contributing to this snazzy online magazine for a few weeks now! Go check out Green Global Travel; it's a magazine right up my alley, and centered on not only eco-tourism and sustainability, but also environmental issues and news.
Which is where I come in! I contribute environmental and eco-based news stories to the website. Here's what I have so far, and I'll make sure to upload other stories separately as they come!
Which is where I come in! I contribute environmental and eco-based news stories to the website. Here's what I have so far, and I'll make sure to upload other stories separately as they come!
Book Journal: The Meaning of Sports
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Another incredible example of well-crafted nonfiction.
The Meaning of Sports: Why Americans Watch Baseball, Football, and Basketball and What They See When They Do by Michael Mandelbaum
Mandelbaum really gets the ball rolling here; he jumps in from the onset and provides some great sociological and anthropological reasoning as to why our society enjoys these sports--and how that enjoyment differs. He smartly and cleanly associates each sport with a specific period of American history: baseball and the pastoral, agrarian age; football and the industrial age; and basketball and the post-industrial, knowledge-based age. That easy-to-access metaphor is extended throughout the entire book.
In academic fashion, Mandelbaum takes a very essayist approach to his presentation, with lots of footnotes, listed analysis, and comparisons. It works wonders. The information is intelligent but so cleanly presented—it really has a great effect on the reader, myself included. Information, emotion, and/or concepts you've known about the sports —baseball's languid nostalgia, football's bellicose, made-for-TV action, and basketball's sociological influences—are expounded on and offer great breadth and insights to further develop those core concepts and associations.
My personal favorite chapter was the extremely well-done analysis of baseball.
I was quite familiar with much of his football analysis, though that's because I've read several other books on the subject (Sal Paolantonio's How Football Explains America comes to mind specifically); as such, it was a slight, albeit intelligent, dog paddle of familiar concepts, mainly in the historical sections. Basketball, much like the sport itself, flowed continuously as a chapter, and the history of its roots in Indiana and the connection of individualized growth for inner-city kids were particularly fascinating points.
BUY IT AND READ IT! A must for anyone interested in not only sports, but American history, sociology, and culture.
Rating: 10/10
The Meaning of Sports: Why Americans Watch Baseball, Football, and Basketball and What They See When They Do by Michael Mandelbaum
Mandelbaum really gets the ball rolling here; he jumps in from the onset and provides some great sociological and anthropological reasoning as to why our society enjoys these sports--and how that enjoyment differs. He smartly and cleanly associates each sport with a specific period of American history: baseball and the pastoral, agrarian age; football and the industrial age; and basketball and the post-industrial, knowledge-based age. That easy-to-access metaphor is extended throughout the entire book.
In academic fashion, Mandelbaum takes a very essayist approach to his presentation, with lots of footnotes, listed analysis, and comparisons. It works wonders. The information is intelligent but so cleanly presented—it really has a great effect on the reader, myself included. Information, emotion, and/or concepts you've known about the sports —baseball's languid nostalgia, football's bellicose, made-for-TV action, and basketball's sociological influences—are expounded on and offer great breadth and insights to further develop those core concepts and associations.
My personal favorite chapter was the extremely well-done analysis of baseball.
I was quite familiar with much of his football analysis, though that's because I've read several other books on the subject (Sal Paolantonio's How Football Explains America comes to mind specifically); as such, it was a slight, albeit intelligent, dog paddle of familiar concepts, mainly in the historical sections. Basketball, much like the sport itself, flowed continuously as a chapter, and the history of its roots in Indiana and the connection of individualized growth for inner-city kids were particularly fascinating points.
BUY IT AND READ IT! A must for anyone interested in not only sports, but American history, sociology, and culture.
Rating: 10/10
Happy New Year
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Only four more books left....to purchase...on the book list. Some jumbling around. With the amount of sports editing I do, coupled with the amount of sports watching I do, and the amount of health I research and freelance, I think I need a bit of a break from sports reading--so there's that change. Three days after the Super Bowl I'll be so depressed about the 200-something days til Week 1 that I'll dig right back in.
Happy New Year! I've got one tangible goal totally in my control and one that isn't. Seems a fair enough balance.
You Are Not So Smart: 9/10
Columbine: 8.5/10
Guns, Germs and Steel: 8.5/10
A History of God: 7/10
Happy New Year! I've got one tangible goal totally in my control and one that isn't. Seems a fair enough balance.
You Are Not So Smart: 9/10
Columbine: 8.5/10
Guns, Germs and Steel: 8.5/10
A History of God: 7/10
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