Hungry judges are less likely to grant you parole. (ABC) Hungry for more, and now shut down. The Winklevii were finally stonewalled in Federal Court. (Reuters) (Probably) hungry former NFL tackle Jon Runyan already represents the Garden State in Congress. Soon, he may have another athlete for company—Carl Lewis, Olympic gold medalist, is now running […]

Prospies currently attempting to get a perspective into life at Columbia may be flustered as their peers rattle the names of their other college acceptances. But remember—it’s all about perspective. The salutatorian of Bronx Science got into six Ivies and is “just trying to refrain from any hubris,” but an acceptance to Columbia is still an […]

Pay heed, potentials. If there is anything we can abstract from this morning’s news, it’s lessons in survival. Don’t slack. While people supposedly seem to like Charlie Sheen because “he barks out the truth as he sees it,” it took the crowd at his latest “aimless and slovenly” show only 20 minutes to start heckling […]

Congress avoids a full government shutdown and passes a last-minute budget deal that plans to cut $38 million from federal spending. While Planned Parenthood and other groups that provide abortions should go relatively unharmed, President Obama admits that “some of the cuts accepted by Democrats ‘will be painful.'” (NYT) Columbia superstar professor of mathematics and […]

Stepping Down: Cathie Black, to be replaced as New York City Schools Chancellor by Dennis Walcott. (NYT) Getting Down: The New Yorkers attending a crazy concert on the Intrepid late this summer. Of course, Columbians have been there, done that. (Gothamist) Shot Down: The rationale for using “No day shall erase you from the memory of […]

Share with your neighbors So if you have a crazy/violent/cool hawk roaming your college neighborhood, show the NYU-ers some love and let them have one too. (NYU Local) Don’t talk back Unless you’re invited to by the J-School, that is. In which case, you should plead “complexity” like NYT publisher Arthur Sulzberger did this past week. […]

The City’s Pest Control team has suffered some cuts. Mr. Bloomberg says more people are complaining about rats because people are complaining more, not because there are more rats. Hm. (Gothamist) Good news for folks in McBain—NY is working on a way to reduce light and noise from firetrucks on non-life threatening business. (Westport News) […]

Sports, they’re all around you. Last night, the UConn Huskies took home the NCAA Division I men’s basketball title, defeating Butler 53-41. (ESPN) Shelter, hopefully it’s all around you. If you’re like Bwog, you’re looking for somewhere to live this summer. This won’t help your search, but does provide a window into the New York […]

Bwog wants to know— was it worth it? You had a perfectly good pillow, but you went and ruined it in New York’s annual Pillow Fight last saturday. (Digital Journal) And to the Scientific Community as a whole, you had all those cows, and you went and made them produce human breast milk. What’s next? Brown cows […]

“Neeew York, New Yooork” is where everyone’s making news of late. A 23-foot high, bronze teddy bear slumped under a black bedside lamp will be on display for five months in midtown Manhattan from next week. It’s selling for $9 million dollars. (WSJ) A New York City teacher has been arrested after colleagues complained that […]

With a vote on Columbia’s Baker Field building plans in Inwood coming next week, community members have posted an online petition calling for more concessions from the university. (Manhattan Times) Manning Marable, SIPA professor of history and public affairs and founding director of the Institute for Research in African American Studies, passed away yesterday. Marable […]

Breaking news below! Mobsters busted in raid on HamDel’s mysterious neighbor, Camille’s. Charlie Sheen has locked himself in a reading room on Butler 4 with several female students, a suitcase of cocaine, and every book on the Lit Hum syllabus. Student looks at Community Food and Juice Menu from a Marxist Perspective. Emma Watson transfers […]

Poli Sci professor Dorian Warran discusses Wal-mart’s potential gender-bias class action suit. (Bloomberg) Samantha Power, one of Obama’s people on the NSC, spoke at Columbia yesterday about Libya. (NYT) Physicist Janna Levin of Barnard explains that space has sound, not just light, and that we can hear it when important celestial events happen. We love […]

Binoculars make researching what is directly in front of you much easier Phones are no longer the only consumer product to be made from bananas! Researchers in Brazil have developed a plastic from the cellulose in bananas and other plants that can be used in cars. (Wired) Content farms do not grow bananas, pineapples, or […]

In this edition of Bwoglines, Bwog goes on a date with the New York Times. First, we hold hands on the ferry. Times whispers in our ear, “Starting soon, the ferries will be a great way to traverse Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, moving along a seven-stop route and coming as frequently as every 20 minutes during peak […]