Compiling the best of the meta lists since 2006. Monday Paul Muldoon: The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet will read selections of his poetry, followed by an interview.  501 Schermerhorn @ 8:00 PM. Tuesday Adam Kirsch [pdf]: The senior editor of The New Republic will discuss the lives of Allen Ginsberg and Lionel Trilling.  501 Schermerhorn @ […]

Columbia has long had a penchant for the hazardous. Shopping carts, to your hands.  Just by touching them, you risk diarrhea and worse. Sleep deprivation, to your heart.  Nearly everyone with a college degree will probably have a heart attack 50 years after graduation. Cancer drugs, to your fetuses.  But now, the miraculous techniques of […]

Everyone’s elections predictions (which took up most of the “Columbia University” hits this week) came out alright, but there are still more predictions to come. Stiglitz says “Yes We Can…eventually” Eisenbach says “See?  I told you this one would be different.” A Columbia scientist says, “The predictions were too late.” Those who were around in […]

The cover story in this week’s Village Voice is an interview with Columbia’s Klaus Jacob, geophysicist and adjunct professor of international and public affairs.  Jacob is a big time disaster expert: in the 90s, his research on earthquakes convinced the city to change its building codes. And when he worked for President Clinton, he was […]

In which Bwog lecture hopper Phil Crone reports back from the Heyman Center’s discussion on climate change  Altschul Auditorium was host last night to a panel discussion featuring PrezBo, Joseph Stiglitz, and various experts on the ever more apocalyptic science of climate change. What exactly PrezBo, a freedom of speech scholar-cum-university president, was doing heading […]

According to a press release by University Spokesman Robert Hornsby, carbon emitted by Commencement ceremonies starting about now (watch the live webcast here!) will be offset by the purchase of carbon credits, which pay for carbon absorption projects around the world. It’s all the rage among the guilty-conscience set–and now you can calculate just how […]

If you read our February issue, you’d have heard of the Global Roundtable on Climate Change, a group of blue chips that has been meeting for the last two years to come up with some sort of statement on what do about our warming world. Last Tuesday, they came out with their joint statement, which […]

Veritas Forum subjects: infinitude of knowledge, the Almighty, plagiarism Message of a loving God creates schism, property rights issues, “trouble” Surprise! Noam Chomsky is anti-war! Poverty = another reason to worry about Global Warming? …never fear, J-Sachs’ anti-squalor sustainability squad is here!…just don’t ask too many questions.

Left Wing Jihad scores funds? Left Wing Jihadist scores funds! Spec dreads us having to “likely spend more money on better fakes” Oh, you didn’t know? Yo’ ass better caaallll somebodyyy! Man, I forgot how good Giuliani was. Maybe we should have let him cancel that election. Class of 2010 apparently most athletic in history, […]

Dear Sig Ep, A Global Warming party? How clever. At least the College Republicans were trying to make a statement! Love, Bwog P.S. (We may still come anyway)

Because a few interesting tidbits have been coming over the alias, and we’re tired of talking about grades too. – We may have forgotten about the Minuteman dust-up, but the members of New York Immigration Control and Enforcement (a few of whom were in Roone on the fateful night) couldn’t let it go. According to […]

Photos and commentary by Bwog Photographer Sumaiya Ahmed. This Autumn sort of passes at times without my notice. But one day, my CC class decides to savor global warming outside and I remember my camera. On my way to Arabic class in Kent, I want to take pictures, but I wonder maybe my camera shouldn’t […]

Café Science solves Global Warming. Barnard plans new major. Pre-meds: crazier than engineers? Bob Dylan musical: worse than that Beach Boys thing EDITORIAL: Hey Everybody! I’m Liberal!

While Bwog was browsing the Earth Institute’s Environmental Programs fair this afternoon–at which earthy professors explained how eager students could save the world, including through a new undergraduate sustainable development major which may or may not exist–we heard one upside to the otherwise disturbing trend of climate change:  “I don’t think I’ve heard anyone make […]