Soon the world’s population will hit 7 billion! (New Yorker) The new iPhone already ended at least one marriage. (HuffPo) Unexpectedly large numbers of Americans believe that marijuana should be legal. (NYMag) Dark matter is even more puzzling than we thought. (Wired) Young eyes needed washing after porn was posted on Sesame Street’s YouTube channel. […]

Exposed: Security analyst who went undercover to give the FBI inside info on OWS protests. (Gawker) Interrupted: Rupert Murdoch during a speech on education by protestors wanting to Occupy Sesame Street. (HuffPo) Evicted? The controversial Park51, Ground Zero community center unless it pays $1.7 million in back rent. (NY Post) Vented: The woes of this […]

Occupy Wall Street has now grown to include protests in over 900 cities. Looks like New York, as always, is a trend-setting powerhouse. (Salon) Remember when the world was supposed to end last spring? Well it’s gonna happen again on Oct. 21st. Minus many strident, and now bankrupt, supporters. (Huff Po) You just got another […]

Dartmouth’s football team gave up their ranking as 7th in the Ivy League, allowing Columbia to move up a spot. (Spec) City officials report that Brookfield Properties abandoned their efforts to clean up Zuccotti Park yesterday, as Occupy Wall Street protesters held their ground and resisted evacuation efforts. (ABC News) Google will shut down its attempt at […]

Columbia’s investments returned at a rate of 24 percent over the last year, edging out Harvard and Yale for the best-performing endowment among the Ivies. If only some of that gain could fix Bacchanal’s financial woes. (Bloomberg/Spec) Forty years later a Barnard alum was reunited with her missing 14-karot gold watch after losing it in […]

Bloomberg stopped by OWS yesterday evening to tell protesters that if they don’t tidy up the property on which they’re protesting, they will have to leave on friday so a cleaning crew can do the work for them. (DNAInfo) In other OWS news, our very own, clean-cut Jeffrey Sachs made a brief speech at the […]

Appalling: The NYPD has been infiltrating Muslim student groups on college campuses throughout the city in an attempt to hunt down and infiltrate potential terror cells.  Curiously, Columbia was spared. (ABC) Apprehensive:  Occupy Wall Street may soon square off with an adversary even countless celebrity cameos may not be able to overcome: Rain, and a […]

After Columbia students stood up against Goldman Sachs chief Lloyd Blankfein with a “School the Squid” campaign, Blankfein canceled his talk at Barnard scheduled for today due to obviously truthful scheduling conflicts. (Spec, Bloomberg) Basketball players will be spending a lot more time sitting, because the first weeks of NBA season are cancelled due to […]

Slovenian Philosopher Slavoj Žižek taught “Radicalism 101“, in Zuccotti Park yesterday. (He’ll be at Columbia this Wednesday). Meanwhile, the protest has spread to 25 cities. (The Observer/CBS News) Barnard Political Science professor Sheri Berman writes a scathing review of a book about conservatism that claims the ideology is about subjugating society’s lowest. (NY Times) Giuliani is […]

Think traffic in New York is bad? We ain’t got nothing on Caracas, Venezuela. Driving there has become so treacherous that the mayor has hired a cadre of mime traffic cops in order to subdue unruly drivers. (ABC News) Think Occupy Wall Street protests are a sign of bad times? It turns out that they […]

Columbia will implement a new system to review professors for tenure. It will be more effective but less specialized than the existing one. (Spec) The Trustees of Columbia University have proposed funding a renovation of the Columbia University Medical Center subway stop. It’s about time. That elevator is the worst! (2nd. Avenue Sagas) The Nobel […]

President Bollinger recalls his younger (but not more youthful) days as a Wall Street protestor. Despite having served on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, he wasn’t reluctant to chime in with his own views regarding the current protest. (Spec) Korilla’s brief stint in reality television ended last month after a cheating scandal. A […]

Sarah Palin officially announced she will not be running for president but still has plans to ride around in her tricked out bus. (WashingtonPost) The Occupy Wall Street protests are spreading; similar protests have sprung up in DC, Boston, LA, Chicago, Iowa, Salt Lake City, Connecticut, Philadelphia, and Cleveland. (WashingtonPost, The Daily Iowan, The Salt Lake Tribune, North Branford Patch, Fox, NBC) After […]

Columbia’s Professor Stiglitz, who’s been making the rounds recently, published a commentary on the economic recession in Slate and, well, the headline says it all. (Slate) Apple announced the iPhone 4S yesterday, and, along with it, their new Siri app; part voice-recognition, part artificial-intelligence, all HAL-9000.  It’s a shame the name is destined to be the […]

Remember that CC alum and former SNL cast member, Jenny Slate, who voiced the adorable shell video which made the rounds last year? (“Guess what I use as a beanbag chair? A raisin.”) Well, she inked a deal for several children books and suggests that a TV series is in the works. Kids, you can make […]