My Digital Life (Free subscription) | yesterday
Scientists from Columbia University is conducting a research project learn about how people form opinions about music. The research, called Music Lab, will require participants to listen to selected songs, and then answer questions related to the song. As a token of appreciation, participants can then download the full complete DRM-free MP3 of the song. To [...] [ This is a content summary...
Living the Scientific Life (Scienti (Free subscription) | yesterday
tags: Columbia University Press , books Books, books, beautiful books! One of the several presses whose books I love is Columbia University Press. Today, I learned that Columbia is having a " white sale " where they are offering more than 1000 of their titles for sale at prices that are between 20-80% off the original price. I already browsed through the science...
Grassroots Innovation (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Columbia University Press ( Link ) is having a book sale with up to 80% off on more than 1,000 titles. Might be worth a look.
Habermasian Reflections (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
Amy Allen, The Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory, Columbia University Press, 2008, 230pp., $34.50 (hbk), ISBN 9780231136228. Reviewed by J. Jeremy Wisnewski, Hartwick College In her recent book, Amy Allen tackles one of the persistent problems of post-Foucaultian critical theory: how can we acknowledge the pervasive mechanisms of power...
Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | yesterday
New York Review of Magazines Students in the magazine department at Columbia University j-school -- advised by Victor Navasky -- have put out another issue of the New York Review of Magazines. The first issue was published in 2001.
Neurophilosophy (Free subscription) | yesterday
Earlier this week, leading neuroscientists and psychologists convened at Columbia University for the Brain and Mind Symposium , "to discuss the accomplishments and limitations of reductionist and holistic approaches to examining the nervous system and mental functions". Speakers included the Nobel Prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel , developmental neurobiologist Thomas Jessell...
Conversational Reading (Free subscription) | yesterday
Over at TNR, Cynthia Ozick considers Lionel Trilling's unfinished novel, soon to be published by Columbia University Press and discussed on this blog here: The breadth of Trilling's renown can hardly be understood today. He was a professor of literature at a major university who was at the same time a "figure" (a term he honored) in the culture at large. And what was he really?...
The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
When was the last time a lead singer took to the stage in a yellow V-necked sweater with sleeves pushed up to the elbows? This was Ezra Koenig, Columbia University graduate and 23-year-old Vampire Weekend frontman, and he looked as though he'd just stepped out of a tutorial and was about to settle down on the faculty lawn to do some serious background reading.
Webloggin (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Charles Johnson, at LGF, working off the top of his head, put together a list of Obama’s troublesome associations: * Rabidly anti-Israel Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi. The Obamas were regular dinner guests at Khalidi’s Hyde Park home for years. * Terrorist sympathizer Ali Abunimah, who runs the viciously anti-Israel web site Electronic Intifada. * Unrepentant Weather Underground...
Overheard in New York (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Bleach-blonde : I would totally vote for McCain if Miley Cyrus were his running mate. --Columbia University Overheard by: Democrat Woman : Oh, I am definitely a single-issue voter. And right now, that issue is: Which one of the candidates can get me to a bathroom soonest? --7th Avenue, Park Slope Overheard by: Chuckell Drunk hobo to a group of pigeons : And they're all Democrats. Can't...
Legal Theory Blog (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Tim Wu (Columbia University - Columbia Law School) has posted Tolerated Use on SSRN. Here is the abstract: "Tolerated use" is a term that refers to the contemporary spread of technically infringing, but nonetheless tolerated use of copyrighted works. Such...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Cell division is essential to life, but the mechanism by which emerging daughter cells organize and divvy up their genetic endowments is little understood. In a new study, researchers at the University of Illinois and Columbia University report on how a key motor protein orchestrates chromosome movements at a critical stage of cell division.
Overheard in New York (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Guy to self : Doctor Jean Grey has the most powerful orgasm of all the X-Men. --Union Square Park Overheard by: Stan Engineering school chick, screaming : And I was like, 'Oh my god, this is the worst protractor ever!' --Columbia University Skanky hipster chick to another : I would totally do him... But only if I had the ninja outfit on. --Ludlow St. [Four NYPD cops are checking people's...
Little Green Footballs (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Here’s a quick run-down of some of Barack Obama’s questionable and disturbing associations: * Rabidly anti-Israel Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi. * Terrorist sympathizer Ali Abunimah, who runs the viciously anti-Israel web site Electronic Intifada. * Unrepentant Weather Underground terrorists William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. * Reverend Jeremiah Wright. What more needs...
tonari no shibafu (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
is having a sale. Lots of Asian history goodies to be had. via Frog in a Well
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laylaelizabeth | 02/26/2008
I have been saying all along that Obama is a Muslim - he calls himself the hope of the entire world - he is a kook that has cronies coming out of the wood work to support his new age message - the sky is glowing. The sky really is glowing and G-d is shining His truth down on the double speak candidate that is the most liberal of any to date. Obama worked with terrorists. Obama does not support Israel
