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Adding to the recent medical breakthrough brought about by arguably the greatest mind of our generation that “your love” is a drug, research finds that certain foods mimic drugs in their effect on the pleasure centers in the human brain. (Wikimedia, New York Times) Even when you’re full, there’s always room for some cake. (Buzzfeed, […]
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It’s a new semester and the inexorable march of progress continues on campus. Except that you probably still don’t have air conditioning and someone gets stuck in an elevator on a bi-weekly basis, and stuff. But there’s new paint! Send any riveting developments we missed to tips@bwog.com.    
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Bwog’s personal plasmid profiler, Zach Kagan, recounts us with the exciting tales of mosquitos, viruses, telescopes and Golden Geese in this week’s Bunsen Bwog.  We already know what science would do with a 65-million year mosquito sample: make a dinosaur theme park and hire Jeff Golblum to get chased around by velociraptors. But what does science […]
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Last night, Berkeley Professor John Lie spoke about K-pop as part of the Center for Korean Research’s Colloquium Series on Korean Cultural Studies. B&W Culture Editor and Bwog K-pop beat chief Conor Skelding shuffled in a few minutes late. Note: check this September’s issue of The Blue & White for K-pop right here at Columbia. “South Korea has become a […]
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Calling John Cage a “polarizing figure” probably accounts to an understatement. If you don’t know what I mean, sit through a performance of 4’33” and wait for someone to burst out laughing or leave the room altogether. Yet, in all the strangeness of a group of performers sitting in complete silence for  four and a half […]
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Food for Thought

You have made it through three weeks of class. You are back into the swing of things and remembered how to be a good student- do work and down shots, preferably at the same time. Being a good student doesn’t mean going hungry.  Bwog is here for you with this guide to study snacking: Reading […]
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Bwog is bringing back a series of interviews with standout athletes on campus. Last semester, we caught up with track star Kyle Merber and tennis sensation Nikki Bartnik. This week, Bwog sat down with Field Hockey’s Gabby Kozlowski, hoping unlock the secrets to her outstanding career and see how the girls handle all those sticks […]
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A Dutch girl’s decision to send birthday party invites via Facebook quickly turns awry as she neglected to change the privacy settings to, well, private. Hilarity and lawlessness ensues as over 30,000 partygoers show up. (CBS News) Apple decides to oust Google’s presence on their baby by creating the Apple Maps app to replace Google […]
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Winston Churchill once said, “I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.” Bwog 3.0 is live, and it’s not completely inaccurate to say that we’ll be the same irreverent, vaguely socially relevant Bwog that you know and love. Of course, we’ve matured (pronounce that […]
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A Note To Readers

Dear Bwog Readers, It’s with the heaviest of hearts (and a couple of other surprisingly apt cliches) that I’ve decided to retire from the Editor position a bit earlier than planned. This decision is the result of unexpected circumstances that, for the time being, require more of my attention and effort than I’d ever want […]
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The Next Big Thing

Bwog was created in 2006 to give students a groundbreaking platform for learning about and communicating with their peers and the community at large. In the six years since, our readership and staff have steadily grown—but to this day, that dedication to our founding purpose has remain unchanged. From innovative and informational coverage of events […]
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This Wednesday, renowned author and journalist Malcolm Gladwell graced Columbia with “A Few (Un)scientific Thoughts on Backlash” as part of the Psychology Department Colloquium Series. Bwog’s autograph-seeking John H. and photo-seeking Artur R. teamed up to skip class and explore the realms of the “unscientific.”  For the less-well-read, Malcolm Gladwell currently writes for the New Yorker […]
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