Today marked the final Frontiers of Science lecture featuring Emlyn Hughes. Last week, Hughes foreshadowed that everything would be explained today; thankfully, since the brouhaha about his first lecture mostly died down, there was no added security today. Adele’s “Skyfall” began the lecture, followed by a video of a girl changing and putting on makeup; […]

Sex just keeps improving and spreading! Having Babies Is Becoming Safer: Scientists cured a baby of AIDS for the first time yesterday, creating hope for a universal cure. (Wall Street Journal) (New York) University is Becoming Sexier:  Ever wonder what NYUers looked like in the 1920s? No? Neither did we, but here are some photos anyways. […]

Well, this seems unfortunate. According to The Williams Record, (most definitely not a Columbia source, interestingly enough) the man who may have been (may still be) this year’s Bacchanal performer has cancelled his show in Williamstown—and his performance at Columbia. Bacchanal declined to comment on the report. The article text below tells the sad story, […]

The Lions racked up some serious hardware this week as the winter season comes to a close. Breaststroker and overall swimming machine Katie Meili walked away from the Women’s Swimming and Diving Ivy League Championships this weekend with three individual titles, three pool records, three school records, two Ivy League records, the Swimmer of the […]

We love you. Come to our meeting tonight in the SGO on the 5th floor of Lerner at 7 pm. Reaction when a professor extends a paper deadline via Youtube

A tipster found this list by a printer. We’re not sure who could have constructed such an elaborate hunt, but it is certainly not rated E for everyone.  Here’s a larger image.

Participants in Columbia’s Hackathon were hacking away from 9 pm Friday until 12 pm Saturday in John Jay Lounge. Bwog’s very own Sam “Ruby Prince” Aarons won the overall prize with his housing website that this isn’t a plug for at all. Lots of other cool and super helpful Columbia-centered apps were made, like one for […]

Bucket List represents the unbelievable intellectual privilege we enjoy as Columbia students. We do our very best to bring to your attention important guest lecturers and special events on campus. As always, feel free to mention any events we may have missed in the comments section (and/or mock our typos) and we’ll add them. Our recommendations […]

Since today is 3/3/13, this morning’s bwoglines are brought to you by the number three! With these superfoods, you can go back for thirds. (Huffington Post) How to fend off senioritis? Graduate in three years.  (NYtimes) One-third of Obama’s pardons have been drug-related—the highest rate of drug-crime forgiveness of recent presidents. (Buzzfeed) Ryan, Colin, and […]

After seeing Bill Kristol’s talk at the J-School, Adam Shapiro reached out via email with a few questions.  Kristol was kind enough to respond and has some great words of advice: Bwog: What’s an unpopular political opinion of yours that turned out to be right? Kristol: That we should send more troops to Iraq (argued from 2003-2006, […]

This weekend, Teen Vogue gave one lucky Barnard First-Year the chance to show off her stylish digs with their version of a Roomhop. In the article, Gabby Noone talks about cost-effective ways to be a hip, 60’s inspired, girl in the city. Noone’s room is furnished primarily by knick-knacks she has found at little boutiques, […]

The Columbia University Wind Ensemble hopes to give inner-city fourth graders the chance to be their next generation, as tomorrow’s their fifth annual Columbia Festival of Winds. Proceeds will go to supplying the group of students from Making Music Matter at P.S. 125 with their instruments and music books. The event starts at 2 pm […]

Do you spend your days waiting for our brilliant theatre reviews and snazzy commentary on campus arts? Now you have an opportunity to live the dream: Bwog is looking for astute and ambitious Arts writers!  If you’re interested in theatre, music, film, dance, or visual arts of any kind, this is for you.  It’s a […]

The latest in the J-School’s Delacorte Lecture featured Fox News contributor and Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol. In a room packed with J-School students and retirees hoping Kristol would use the opportunity to “debunk” global warming, political peer Adam Shapiro listened on. Professor Victor Navasky (former longtime editor of The Nation) introduced Kristol by mentioning […]

Assassin: Killed. It was the shot bludgeoning sad little scream heard around the world! Yesterday, at 4:38 am, the first kill of Engineering Week’s game of Assassins was posted for the world to see. Lesson: never leave your room during a Modern Family marathon. (CU Assassins) Criticism: Killed. Harvard seems to be taking an interesting new […]