My Columbia: Reminiscences of University Life (A Columbia University Publication)
Celebrity Baby Scoop (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Christy Turlington and her 3 ½-year-old son Finn , took a walk down Madison Avenue this afternoon (November 21) after lunching at Serafina with husband Ed Burns , 41, and their daughter Grace , who celebrated her sixth birthday on October 25. The 40-year-old model, who is currently completing her master’s degree in Public Health at Columbia University, recently spent a year traveling...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Photo: Is that really tuna? ( LFL16 on Flickr) The next time you order tuna at a sushi restaurant - watch out! - it may not be what you think it is. A team of scientists from Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History conducting a genetic research project found that more than half of tuna ordered from 31 restaurants were "misrepresented" or selling endangered southern...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
We knew there would be trouble right from the start when the rabbi said he would not perform our marriage on campus because the Columbia University chapel has "Christian windows."
New York Post (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
A lawsuit-happy former Columbia University professor yesterday renewed her claims that she was the victim of an "academic lynching" when she was canned for plagiarism last year. Madonna Constantine, who made headlines in 2007 when a hangman's noos...
New Republican Party Blog (Free subscription) | 19 hours ago
Here is the raw DATA from the Government Accounting Office for the Projections of the U.S. National Debt Projections for the next 70 Years WITHOUT Obamacare, Cape-and-Trade, Increased Taxes, etc.: The “Cloward-Piven Strategy” was first proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven to hasten the fall of capitalism by [...]...
prudent investor newsletters (Free subscription) | yesterday
We have written alot about how web based technology have been democratizing information. Its apparent impact appears to be vastly broadening and filtering into the political space. Recently, Cuba's controversial freedom advocate blogger Yoani Sánchez received a surprise reply from US President Obama. From Committee to Protect Journalist , (bold highlights mine) [pointer from Professor Mark...
Carbon-Based (Free subscription) | yesterday
PR Newswire : An emerging body of evidence suggests that the changing global climate is already affecting infectious disease transmission patterns. As noted today in a symposium at the 58th annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH), such changes are expected to have a profound impact on global public health. "There is concrete evidence that the global climate...
43(B)log (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sushi fraud: Apparently, if you don't walk around fingerprinting the DNA of your fish--the database is, hilariously, FISH-BOL--you run the risk of ordering tuna and instead receiving escolar, "a nasty fish with buttery flesh that can cause bizarre episodes of diarrhea, accompanied by a waxy intestinal discharge," or an endangered species of tuna. "[R]esearchers from Columbia University...
Worldfocus (Free subscription) | yesterday
Gideon Rose of Foreign Affairs Magazine and James Rubin of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs join Daljit Dhaliwal to discuss President Barack Obama's trip to Asia and the focus of U.S.-China relations.
TakePart Social Action Network™ (Free subscription) | yesterday
Well, it’s been an interesting week for women’s health issues: earlier this week Giulia noted that a panel is recommending fewer mammograms and starting later, and now, new guidelines are suggesting that women start getting screened for cervical cancer later in life, and that Pap smears are not needed every year. One of the reasons for the change is that overtesting can actually lead to...
BURMA DIGEST (Free subscription) | yesterday
by Jeffrey D. Sachs - Jeffrey D. Sachs is Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is also a Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals. NEW YORK – It is hard for international observers of the United States to grasp the [...]
Random Thoughts from Reno (Free subscription) | yesterday
and now the pap smear recommendations. Although the new recommendations appear to be based on science, medicine, and common sense, many people, including doctors, are resistant to them . Some of the outrage may be fueled by concerns any health care reform may include some sort of rationing: The backers of science-driven medicine, with its dual focus on risks and benefits, have cheered the elevation...
The Westerner (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Earth’s oceans, which have absorbed carbon dioxide from fuel emissions since the dawn of the industrial era, have recently grown less efficient at sopping it up, new research suggests. Emissions from the burning of fossil fuels began soaring in the 1950s, and oceans largely kept up, scientists say. But the growth in the intake rate has slowed since the 1980s, and markedly so since 2000, the...
Plumb and Square (Free subscription) | yesterday
Up to a couple months ago I never heard of Cloward and Piven, I thought they sounded like an old country-western duet. Boy was I wrong. For those of you that do not know who Cloward and Piven are ,let me give you a little lesson. Richard Cloward and Francis Piven were sociologists at Columbia University [I wonder who took poly-sci classes at Columbia...hum I wonder...] . They came up with this plan,...
CleanTechies Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
A study of the accumulation of carbon dioxide in the world’s oceans from 1765 to the present shows that as humanity pumps more CO2 into the atmosphere, the capacity of the world’s oceans to continue absorbing carbon appears to be decreasing. Researchers from Columbia University and NASA estimate that since 2000, the proportion of fossil-fuel emissions [...] Rating: 0.0/ 5 (0 votes cast)...
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urmee | 07/31/2009
Alicia Augello Cook was born January 25, 1981 better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American recording artist, musician and actress. She was raised in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York by her single mother, where Keys made a television appearance on The Cosby Show at the age of four. She attended Professional Performing Arts School and graduated at 16. She later attended
aarkstore | 07/27/2009
Summary New York Presbyterian Hospital is a university hospital comprising of Columbia University Medical Center and Weill Cornell Medical Center with a total beds of 2335. It is affiliated to both Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons and Weill Medical College of Cornell University. It is engaged in providing services relating to patient care, medical teaching, and research. New York...
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
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