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 […]

  Down: Our favorite Phil says we’ve got more winter.  Because it’s been so harsh so far.  Cute hats, guys. (USA Today) Up: Columbia is picking local construction firms run by minorities and women for the Manhattanville campus project. (DNAinfo) Down: Ajay Kumar Mangal, CC’10 Teach for America member and former John Jay RA, was arrested for […]

SEAS puts New York in check, when it comes to how green it is. (NYT) The mystery over the Westside cheese labels, and all the existential crises it’s inspired, is solved. (Gothamist) We already figured out how to not be that guy. Now people are learning how to avoid it on Twitter. (The Atlantic) The Economist finally figures […]

You could have gone to Fordham and been one of these students (plus a baby). (NYT) Your overheard comment on the train yesterday could have been made public to the world in general. (Overheard in NY) Your innocent desire to party could have been tragically misinterpreted by American customs. (Gawker) Columbia could have cared about its USNWR ranking this […]

Educational Reform: Changing with the times is not exactly Ivy League style, but the former president of Harvard says it should be. (NYT) ‘Celluloid Barriers’: Barnard’s Athena Film Festival is burning them. (Guardian) Football: In a land far far away, football is taking over university culture. (NYT) Transferring: Based on stellar retention rates, we have “happiest” […]

CANNED BEER: check out this history of the official container of real college’s official drink. (The Daily) VINTAGE CHAMPAGNE AND SKYLINE VIEWS: Bwog knows it’s never too early to start thinking about Valentine’s Day plans (or to start repressing these same thoughts), so why not a private dinner and rooftop pool swim at the Peninsula […]

It’s another scandalous day in the Ivy League. Patrick Witt, the Yale quarterback who was lauded as a sports hero after he opted to play in the Harvard-Yale game rather than sit for his Rhodes Scholarship interview, has been accused of sexual assault. Turns out the Rhodes committee found out about the (unofficial) accusation and suspended […]

In case you want to keep track of all the crazy-entrepreneurial things Columbians are doing, The Next Web reports that Neu Venture Capital has rolled out a new Visualizer which shows the connections between Columbia’s affiliated start up companies. (The Next Web) As many major countries prepare to return to the polls this year, Russian […]

The Columbia Republicans are considering bringing Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist back to campus to promote free speech. We can’t help but wonder if they learned nothing from last time he was here.  Well, it has been a while since we had a nationally-covered protest in this city… (Spec) Oh wait except for that whole Occupy Wall […]