Thom Yorke of Radiohead put in a plug for the film Inside Job at Wednesday’s concert downtown. Now they’re going to play for Occupy Wall Street. (NYT/Gawker) Rafael Moneo, the architect behind our beloved NoCo building, joined two others in a New Yorker article that profiled the changing face of research laboratories across the country. Did we […]

A video surfaced earlier this week in which a police officer using pepper spray on a protester. Responding to public outcries, the NYPD is investigating the incident. The officer accused of seasoning the protester is already under police protection after receiving death threats. (NYTimes, Gothamist) Maybe the cop was a just a big fan of […]

Technology ruined baseball.  And Times Square.  Or maybe that was Bloomberg and the throngs of tourists. Either way, Times Square is getting an overhaul to make it, if you can believe it, “minimalistic.” (NY Daily News) In one of the most poorly kept secrets of all time, it’s official: Jay-Z and a small consortium of […]

Purdue becomes the first of the 27 schools pursuing construction of a NYC science campus to drop out of the running. (WSJ) Le Monde (the French magazine, not the restaurant you eat at when your parents visit) is fascinated by Barnard and education at an all girls’ school. Oh, can’t read French, can’t you? Well […]

If you don’t feel like going to class, there’s still plenty for you to do today. You missed a chance to bike through New York City with Kenneth Jackson’s History of New York class, although you may consider motorcycling. (WSJ, NYPost) Speaking of pedaling, Columbia’s decided to moderate staff benefit cuts it announced in April. […]

Columbia’s National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse published a study that supports a link between childhood family dinners and substance free living. (ABC News) NYC Police Commissioner, Ray Kelly, released a memo last Friday that instructed police officers to no longer arrest people for small-time pot possession. So long as you have less than […]

Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer will appear at a Riverside Church symposium today to reevaluate the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk policy, which has been accused of singling out minorities (NY Times) At yesterday’s Senate plenary meeting, a SoA student senator tells everyone, that he “like[s] to smoke marijuana” (Spectrum) The number of NYC public elementary and […]

The Defenstration of Prague led to the Thirty Years’ War in 1618. NASA is eying the six-ton Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) as it barrels towards a yet-to-be-known location on Earth. While the chance of it crashing into North America has not been entirely ruled out, scientists expect it to fall over the Pacific Ocean […]

According to the latest report by the Census Bureau, one in five New York City residents are now living below the poverty line, five percentage points above the 15.1% national average. New York City also holds the biggest income gap of any county in the country, with the top fifth of earners making 38 times […]

What do ping pong balls, alcoholic beverages, and condoms have in common?  I’m sure a first year Carmanite can tell you—and now Duane Reade is using strategic (read: subliminal) marketing to save everyone a bit of time. [West Side Rag] Apologies to all lovers of anarchy, protests on Wall Street, and V for Vendetta; according to a law from 1845, […]

Lindsay Lohan Representative Charles Rangel gatecrashed Rick Perry’s NYC fundraiser. Rangel’s opinion? “He’s tall and he’s from Texas.” [Politico] The Times has plenty to say about the much maligned Ahmadinejad dinner. They even talked to Hornsby! [Opinionator] People are wondering why Barnard fell so far in the USNWR rankings. [Spec] NYC might be getting a […]

Reflect on the lessons you learned in your Art Hum, Lit Hum, CC and Frontiers classes today. Everything is relevant! The logic in these Filipino women’s attempts to bring peace sounds all too familiar. (Gawker) Perhaps you might suggest a tour through Riverside Park’s underground Freight Train tunnel as a potential Art Hum field trip. […]

Woah… How did it become Sunday?? Whatever. Let’s putz around the internet for a while. Ron Paul outright won the CA GOP straw poll. Do we congratulate him or resent a political system where 833 random opinions matter? (CNN) Don’t really know if Fashion Week just ended or is still going on, but here is a […]

Resenting: Columbia’s woeful ranking in the MFA charts. (Slate) Regulating: Columbia medical prof Dr. Andrew Bomback, who is accused of supplying insider information. (NYT) Rebuking: Neoliberal economics by staging a sit in of Wall Street with pillowfights and yoga. (Daily Intel/NYMag) Reducing: AIDS cases in NYC, which were reported to be down by 25% (CityRoom/NYT) Remembering: Murdered […]

It’s been a swell time for science lately. Like Google, Bwog dedicates some space to celebrating discovery today. Rejoice Star Wars geeks! NASA’s found Tatooine! A planet that orbits around two stars for multiple sunrises and sunsets. Start planning your 3.5 million year journey to this uninhabitable planet! Dr Oz says Apple juice might not […]