February 2012
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Reblog if you’ve ever pulled your sleeve over you hand and pretended to be Megaman.
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Top Susan G. Komen Official Resigned Over Planned... →
Sources with direct knowledge of the Koman decision-making process said recent policies were adopted specifically to cut funding to Planned Parenthood.
Komen, the marketing juggernaut that brought the world the ubiquitous pink ribbon campaign, says it cut-off Planned Parenthood because of a newly adopted foundation rule prohibiting it from funding any group that is under formal investigation...
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Time Traveler From The Year 1998 Warns Nation Not... →
Saying he came bearing an important message from the past, a stranger from the year 1998 appeared on the Capitol steps Thursday and urged voters not to elect Newt Gingrich president in 2012. “In the late 20th century, Newt Gingrich is a complete disgrace!” said the time-traveling man, warning Americans that 14 years in the not-so-distant past, Gingrich becomes the only speaker in the...
January 2012
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I was watching last Tuesday’s episode of The Colbert Report while eating breakfast this morning when Stephen Colbert remarked, “The applause and the cheering is how you know who won. [Republican presidential primary] debates should be like a wet T-shirt contest.” After a brief pause, he turned to the camera and followed up with, “By the way, Newt Gingrich would totally win...
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Half the Sky Foundation →
To commemorate the Chinese New Year earlier this month, and to celebrate my friend Sam Huey’s birthday next month, I donated to Half the Sky Foundation in her honor. Half the Sky Foundation is an United States based non-profit organization that provides medical attention, nurturing care, arts enrichment, and educational programs to orphans born with disabilities throughout China. As the...
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Environmental Defense Fund →
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published in 1962; the Santa Barbara oil spill occurred in 1969; that same year, pollution on the Cuyahoga River in Ohio was heavy and thick that the river caught fire. These events helped bring about the birth of the environmental movement in America in the 1970s. One could even say that the environmental movement of the 1970s was the equivalent of the...
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The Seasons (Op. 37a) is a collection of twelve...
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WatchI wonder how many people watching SNL not living in New York City / too young during the 90’s actually knows what Stomp and the Blue Man Group is.
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“When Dostoevsky met Dickens in 1862 — a meeting that is hard to imagine —...”
– Verlyn Klinkenborg, “The Whirling Sound of Planet Dickens” (via fwriction)
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Columbia Pro-Tip
You don’t have to take the subway down to Columbus Circle for A Voce or Marea for some fine dining. For a comparative dining experience (although minus the Michelin stars), Vareli is located on Broadway between 112th Street and 111th Street, right next to The Heights. Vareli is a fine dining oasis of contemporary Mediterranean cuisine in the culinary wasteland that is Morningside Heights...
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“The problem with the old system of authority ranking was arrogance - the...”
– Malcolm Gladwell, “Talent Grab” in the October 11, 2010 issue of The New Yorker. The New Yorker is, hands down, my favorite magazine, and Gladwell’s work has never failed to fascinate and captivate. He explores why professional athletes are paid millions of dollars to hit a ball...
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Political scientists have long recognized that Americans are much more enthusiastic about specific politicians and programs than they are about the government in general. They are much more likely to approve of their own member of Congress than of Congress as a whole. And even most [right-wingers] oppose cutting spending on specific government programs, even while they strongly support overall...
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"Asian Flush" Red Flag for Risk of Cancer →
When we drink, enzymes in our livers metabolize alcohol into acetaldehyde - a toxic chemical and carcinogen - before converting it into acetate - a harmless substance. The “Asian flush” / “Asian glow” affects approximately 1/3 of people of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean descent and is caused by a deficiency in the alcohol-metabolizing enzyme ALDH2. People with the Asian glow...
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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in...”
– Dwight Eisenhower, the 34th President of the United States and 13th President of Columbia University, spoke to The American Society of Newspaper Editors on April 16, 1963. The above excerpt from his “The Chance for Peace” speech, which eloquently illustrates the “guns versus...
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I’ve been so busy these last few weeks...
December 2011
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The most ridiculous attack on Stuy ever. →
ijkaylin:
brotylz:
let-me-free:
Stuyvesant High School is not only “a good high school”. It is a place for the best and the brightest. There’s a reason middle school students study their asses off for the SHSAT. There’s a reason people work so hard just for that one chance to get into Stuy. Because it’s where the best belong, and they want to be the best.
It’s ridiculous to change the...
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“It’s better to light a match than to curse the darkness.”
– Executive Assistant District Attorney Benjamin Stone to District Attorney Adam Schiff in “Sanctuary”, season 4, episode 19 of Law & Order. An African-American youth mistook an Italian-American man to be Jewish and beat him to death during an anti-Semitic race riot. The case was...
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November 2011
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The Children's Aid Society →
New York Magazine’s Charity Guide named The Children’s Aid Society as one of its top picks for last year: The Children’s Aid Society strives to improve the lives of the 120,000 families it serves annually with recreation programs, academic tutoring, and medical resources. Charity Navigator, which evaluates the financial responsibility of non-profit organizations, has given...
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The Seasons (Op. 37a) is a collection of twelve...
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“There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare...”
– Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, from Chapter 28, Verse 251 of the Buddhist scripture The Dhammapada.
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Competency Comparisons
Have you heard of the U.S.’s support of the rebels in Libya? If so, congrats - you know more about foreign policy better than a Republican presidential candidate (Herman Cain).
Have you ever sexually harassed your workplace subordinates? If not, congrats - you have conducted yourself in a more moral manner than a Republican presidential candidate (Herman Cain).
Have you ever eaten at Pizza...
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Columbia Pro-Tip
You know that wide bridge spanning across Amsterdam Avenue and linking the main Morningside Heights campus to the Law School, SIPA, and East Campus? You know, the one with the grassy area and bronze sculptures - including the one that looks like a molar teeth (“Three-Way Piece: Points”) that, yes, you can actually turn if enough people push it. The bridge is called [the] (Charles H.)...