New York Times foreign correspondent and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Shadid passed away in Syria due to a severe asthma attack. (Columbia Journalism Review) Jon Stewart has temporarily cornered the market on late night satire. (New York Times) Corruption is everywhere. (The Guardian) Never take candy from strangers undercover cops. (AlterNet) Bunnies via Wikimedia […]

Jeremy Lin continues to be a boss. While you’re admiring his skills, don’t forget about the other Ivy League players who’ve changed sports history. But you can cut it out with all the bad puns. (Daily News, PolicyMic, #linify it, USA Today) Much to everyone’s surprise, Columbia is not New York’s hottest college. Smart guys finish […]

Did you kick back with a favorite salty snack? At least you didn’t spend 2.7 billion on it.  (CNN) Did Valentine’s with your sweetie fall short of expectations? At least you’re not being charged with disorderly conduct to the second degree. (LA Times) Did you seek love in wildlife? At least—unlike Shakira—you probably had the sense not to pet […]

To get off to a bright start: some think that it might not be that bad to be alone. Become part of the debate on the pros and cons of living solo. (NYT) After you make your decision and fall into inevitable despair, New York tells you how to drink tonight based on your personal […]

The Grammys were last night!  Adele learned you can take an awful break-up and parlay it into 6 awards, viewers learned who Bonny Bear Bon Iver is, and Nicki Minaj pissed off Italian grandmothers everywhere. (Reuters, Fox News) Though our Occupy class never came to fruition, students at other universities are getting schooled in the […]

Rest in peace to Whitney Houston, who died unexpectedly yesterday in a Beverly Hills hotel. (LA Times) It’s better in…Japan? Japanese innovation is back, and this time it has turned its gaze to blue jeans, French food, and espresso. (Wall Street Journal). The genius behind 5-hour energy spent time living as a monk in India. […]

Jeremy Lin, the Harvard grad who came off the bench to become the surprising new star of the Knicks, is inspired by Tim Tebow. (Gothamist) The guy with all the frattitude in your lecture may be hiding some deep seated insecurities. (HuffPo) The Best in Show at the Westminster Dog Show (this Monday in Madison […]

Fighting the war on lame hats Drugs: Latin American leaders call for drug regulation because the War on Drugs isn’t working. (Washington Post) Body Fat: Analysts are slaves to passion. (Yahoo!) Tax Evasion: Society expects something of you! (The Atlantic) Contraception: More fancy hats. (New York Times)   Ye Olde Analysts via Wikimedia Commons

The NYC Regional Brain Bee took place in Lerner on Saturday, where high school students failed to know that the brain has 100 million billion cells.  If only they had taken Frontiers! (NY Times) After progress in California, gay marriage is not close to being legal in the state of Washington. (Reuters) The work of censored […]

900 000 000 000 000: The amount of money that a Staten Island mother is suing the city for. (Forbes) 3 950 000: The listed price of the skinniest house in Manhattan. (Huffington Post) 34.2: The tons of paper and debris that the last Giants Super Bowl Parade generated.(Gothamist) 3.25: The years it took for […]

Not sure you’re at the right place quite yet? Here are some potentially better fits….or you could go to Brown and be the next guy to uncover a lost Malcolm X speech. (Huffington Post) In a bold and brave acceptance of the future, students at UC Riverside are pushing to make looming post-graduation debt a […]

As the GOP primaries come to a close, one thing’s for certain: the Tea Party is dead. (Daily Beast) The Giants won the Superbowl! But it, ain’t over till we say it’s over. It’s time to judge the best and worst TV ads from last night. (Slate) Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook is worth more than a billion […]

For some people, today is only about one thing– the Super Bowl. (ESPN) For others, it’s not so much about the game as it is about the halftime show, or maybe the drunk food. (MTV, Gawker) If Madonna and nachos have no allure, you could always head to the library. But be warned–even once you’re […]

Manhattan Wiccans prepare to launch a fundraising invasion of Union Square. (DNAinfo) A different sort of witch hunt in a different hipster park: someone is actually ticketed for smoking! (Gothamist) Prodigious birth! A ten-year-old makes a groundbreaking scientific discovery with her toy molecule kit. Guess we know who that girl will be in Gen Chem […]

We’d like to take this moment to thank our sponsors Bloomberg steps up after Komen for the Cure backs down on breast cancer screening. (The New York Observer) Another type of cancer. (The Raw Story) PrezBo would not be happy with the treatment of journalists yesterday on Capitol Hill. (Huff Po) The economy might just be […]