Dr. W. Ian Lipkin, a professor at Columbia’s Mailman School of Health, said about a group undergraduates who created a protective suit for Ebola patients as part of Lipkin’s design challenge, “But the undergraduates! People talk about ennui and apathy in undergraduates? I don’t see it. They came up with some fantastic stuff.” More succinctly, […]

Just when you thought the Catholic Church was ready to loosen the seams a just little bit, an assembly of bishops this weekend ended without any main progress on how the Church will accept and discuss gay couples. (NY Times) Where darkness meets light: British astronomers are one step closer to finding proof that there […]

Let’s start off with HBO, which has announced the launch of a stand-alone streaming service next year! Unfortunately not soon enough to meet your urgent need to watch Season 2 of The Sopranos the night before your micro midterm. (Washington Post) Though new love might be beckoning, your current lover calls; Netflix needs your help. […]

Shia Labeouf went on Jimmy Kimmel to explain his drunken arrest this past summer outside of a performance of Cabaret. (Complex) This guy has been banned from entering all 35,000 restaurants and bars in London after getting caught stealing bags and phones from bars. He’s also going to jail for four years. (Grub Street) The Ukrainian […]

An American Airlines flight made an emergency landing after the interior cabin wall started ripping apart. WTF, American Airlines? Fix your planes. (Sydney Morning Herald) After about six weeks of being completely off the radar, Kim Jong Un returned to the public with a cane in hand. All rumors about his potentially deteriorating health have been […]

Ebola in Dallas, conjoined twins in Houston – Texas just can’t get enough coverage of medical anomalies. (Reuters) The Twin Cities of Minnesota are getting a spread in the next edition of the Guinness Book of World Records. Minnesota: home to America’s largest mall and the world’s largest zombie pub crawl crowd. (Pioneer Press) The […]

Just in time for Halloween: You can now watch every episode of “Are You Afraid of the Dark?” on YouTube. (Huffington Post) The search for a Minnesotan boy continues 25 years after his disappearance with a new billboard campaign. (CBS Local) Hitler broke bad? Apparently, he was secretly addicted to crystal meth. (Daily Mail) Amanda Bynes […]

In part of their ongoing obsession with photographing every highway, road, bike lane, and patch of dirt, Google maps has recently deployed Street View cameras on camel to capture the sand of the Liwa Desert in Abu Dhabi. (Earth Touch News Network) Gentlemen, a warning: as part of an effort to combat public lewdness at Port Authority, the […]

If you haven’t already heard, cult classic Twin Peaks will be coming back to TV on Showtime in 2016. (Slate) This guy in Chicago plans to open a restaurant that serves only kale burgers plus other vegetarian sides. Exciting? (Grub Street) On Monday, JK Rowling tweeted something pretty cryptic…does this mean the return of Harry Potter? […]

The Supreme Court upheld the decisions of several federal appeals courts that ruled in favor of same-sex marriage in five new states, including historically conservative Oklahoma and Utah. What would the Book of Mormon say? (NYT) USA Swimming has suspended Michael Phelps from USA Swimming competitions (and funding) for the next six months and next […]

Surprise! Your childhood nightmare of that one time when Pluto lost its elite status as a planet has now been reversed. Maybe. (USA Today) “Occupy” is reemerging as a political battle cry, but this time on the opposite side of the world. (NPR) The Amanda Show star might be one push of a pedal closer […]

An (alleged Russian) attack against JPMorgan and Chase infiltrated over 83 million American accounts, according to the bank’s latest count. (Time) For the few people that haven’t heard of Netflix, be warned that Redbox is shutting down its video-streaming service in t-minus two days. (Engadget) In other F-U Apple related news, Samsung released an ad showing just how durable their […]

Hong Kong protestors are proving to be as effective as they are polite, establishing new precedent for classy civil disobedience. (Slate) Our own fair city, cultural capital that it is, has a number of especially exciting events in the classy world of dance over the coming months. The Huffington Post says that number is 14. […]

If you haven’t already heard, Ebola has been diagnosed in the U.S. for the first time. (Huffington Post) This woman was in jail for over a month because the police thought the dried SpaghettiO’s on a spoon in her car was meth. (Gawker) Another horrible dating app: Luxy allows its wealthy users to “weed out […]

Walmart accused Tracy Morgan, claiming it was his negligence that caused his injuries in the June car crash. The Walmart driver was apparently awake for 24 hours before the accident. Whose fault is it, anyway? (Yahoo!) At the U.N., Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of war crimes and Netanyahu accused Abbas and other world leaders of […]