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New York Olympians In London 2012 Summer Games: Swimming

Today we meet two New York Olympians who have made a huge splash in their young careers. While one has racked numerous accolades in his high school and collegiate career, the other is barely out of high school and already a bronze medal winner.Name: Alex MeyerAge: 24Olympic Event: SwimmingHometown: ... More >>

Three Good Things: Including Sophia Loren

1 These photos of Sophia Loren at home circa 1964, taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt, that include some really gaudy dinner tables, family-style banquets, and breezy outdoor breakfasts with silver coffee pots etc. [Retronaut] 2 Harvard professor David Edwards is developing edible food wrappers out of sug ... More >>

Knicks' Point Guard Jeremy Lin Does the Impossible

Phenoms who come in under the sports radar are almost exclusively confined to baseball. There are so many examples of this that they almost defy counting -- a 19-year-old Dwight Gooden matures early, just a year out of high school and can suddenly throw a 97 mph fastball past experienced major leag ... More >>

Drag Sitcom Work It Is Declared Worst New Show Of The Season

LGBT groups urged ABC not to air it. But on it came: a broad sitcom about two guys who dress like broads in order to get jobs because they've decided there's a "mancession" out there and it'll help their chances to be female. It's sort of a reverse Albert Nobbs.

Occupy Princeton Protesters Disrupt Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan Recruiting Events

Occupy Princeton -- which, yes, it exists -- mic-checked a J.P. Morgan recruiting event on Wednesday and a Goldman Sachs event, above, on Thursday. This is similar to what happened at Harvard recently, though we haven't found a bizarrely pro-Goldman editorial in The Daily Princetonian yet.

Occupy! Gazette Flooding the Occupy Wall Street Print Media Zone

Kickstarter​Because the Occupied Wall Street Journal apparently doesn't fill the print media needs of the movement, n 1 is following up their personals ads with the Occupy! Gazette. According to the project's Kickstarter, n 1 recruited Astra Taylor, the documentary filmmaker who made Zizek! an ... More >>

Two Harvard Grads, Two WWII Stories, in A Twentieth Century Tale

NYC Private High School Can Cost More Than the Ivy League

"And you gave me a scholarship, didn't you?"​Tuition at the famed Bronx prep school Riverdale -- once home to the likes of Chevy Chase and Carly Simon -- totals $40,450 for the coming school year, making it the first of New York City's important people-makers to charge more than $40,000 annual ... More >>

Fatty Foods Can Make You Depressed; Veselka Kiosk at First & First Could Close

​A new study shows that people who eat more trans fats from cheese, milk, or processed foods may have a 48 percent increased risk of depression. [Bloomberg] McDonald's Hamburger University, on the outskirts of Shanghai in China, can be harder to get into than Harvard. [Bloomberg] The Veselka ... More >>

Catfish, the Other Facebook Film, Facing Lawsuit Which Could Reveal Hoax

​This year's movie about Facebook that has nothing to do with Harvard or a billion dollars is called Catfish, and follows a young New Yorker to Michigan to meet a family he's communicated with online. What follows in the documentary is a parable about the risks of connections made virtually, a ... More >>

Child Nutrition Bill Approved; Eataly Founder Talks

​Queens food pantries have seen a 90 percent increase in demand this year, but almost 60 percent of them didn't have enough food to meet it. [NY Daily News] Dan Barber of Blue Hill is among a growing list of top chefs who are teaching food-science classes at Harvard. [FOXNews] Food safety is ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: October 12 through 19, 2010

Bra Functions as Gas Mask: In Case of Emergency, Remove and Apply to Face

via ebbra.com​So, this happened: An actual doctor has created an actual Emergency Bra (in severe-alert red, with lace edging), that you can, in an emergency, cover your face with so as to avoid breathing in toxic dirty bomb fumes, or whatnot. They sell for $29.95 at ebbra.com under the tagline ... More >>

Man Invents Dog-Poop Powered Lantern, Because Someone Had To

​Every now and again a story appears that is just, in a word, a gem. A little nugget of beauty. A thing that makes the writerly heart sing. Today, we find that story in dog poop. Jay Lindsay, AP writer, hones in on an angle right off the bat -- dog poop has a bright side! And it only gets bett ... More >>

Veritas and The Twentieth-Century Way Look Back at the Gay Past

Police entrapment and Harvard harassment in two FringeNYC shows

Science Says Wearing Knockoffs Makes You a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Person

​Remember the episode of Sex and the City (one of the soulless ones where the gang all heads to L.A.) in which Samantha acquires a fake Fendi handbag from the back of a car and an array of Very Bad Things Ensue, including getting kicked out of the Playboy mansion for claiming a Playmate's hand ... More >>

'Secrets of the Trade' Asks a Lot, But Doesn't Tell Much

Primary Stages mounts Jonathan Tolins's new theater-centric play

Priest Accused of Stealing $1 Million in Church Money, Spending It on Male Escorts

via Hartford Courant​Weren't we all just talking about how the BP spill totally helped the Catholic Church with its little "priest situation," at least where the media was concerned? Got 'em out of the spotlight for a bit, took the heat off, what have you? Well, today we heard that we all migh ... More >>

You Pretty Much Have to Be a Genius to Go to NYU Abu Dhabi

via The New York Times​New York University's Abu Dhabi satellite campus accepted just 2.1 percent of applicants for its inaugural class of 2014, compared to Harvard, which admitted 6.9 percent. Yep, these kids could probably kick ass at any spelling bee in any language in any country in the ev ... More >>

ITCH TO SCRATCH

DJs go head-to-head for turntable glory

President Obama in Search of a Justice "Who Respects Women's Rights"

​President Obama said today that he "has no abortion litmus test" in selecting a replacement for Justice John Paul Stevens and that he "wants to make sure any nominee he picks respects individual rights, including women's rights," reports the New York Times.

Mariah Carey Gets Cheesy, and Thank Goodness

The goofification of Mimi

Clip Job: LSD in Churches by 1984 -- Timothy Leary

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesDecember 10, 1964, Vol. X, No. 8An Interview with Timothy LearyBy John WilcockTimothy Leary and Richard Alpert, former Harvard professors, have been experimenting with hallucinogenic drugs (mainly LSD and psilocybin) for 4 1/2 years. They main ... More >>

Obama Drinks Bud; Astoria Noisiest Hood in Queens

​Obama decided to deal with the Henry Louis Gates situation by inviting the Harvard professor and Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley over to the White House for a beer. The president said he would have a Budweiser, while Crowley prefers Blue Moon, and Gates drinks Red Stripe or Becks. [Slate] ... More >>

Clip Job: Wilcock on Mushrooms -- Footnote By Leary

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesSeptember 6, 1962, Vol. VII, No. 46Adventure With a Pink PillBy John WilcockA questionnaire arrived last month from Tim Leary, a professor at Harvard who has been doing research on the effects of Mexico's "magic mushrooms" (teonanacati) on human ... More >>

Jeezy to Bill O'Reilly: "You're Really Showing How Ignorant You Are"

Yes! Jeezy claps back at O'Reilly & Co over at XXL. This is him accepting O'Reilly's invitation to come on the show: "Damn right! I ain't never ran, nah mean? At the end of the day, you're dealing with cats who think that we as young black men don't know what it is we do. We entrepreneurs, we cam ... More >>

The Great Debaters

Butter Piping and Nipple Flowers

A young designer takes on New York Fashion Week

Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Rising law-prof star's book analyzes the ways we pass—and throws in a cri de coeur

After the Snow

The mirror crack'd: Last year, a drug and its discontents seeped into books and hip-hop

'Exist: Not a Protest Film'

Our Bodies, Our Books

Guides no woman's library should be without

Black to the Future

Where does African American studies go from here?

It's The End of the World as We Know It and I Feel Fine

Cult Following

A holiday guide to coffee-table books with a jagged edge

Nursery Crimes

Parents throttle it out at murderously selective pre-school

Subtext

Alexander von Hoffman's House by House, Block by Block: The Rebirth of America's Urban Neighborhoods

Left Out of Affirmative Action

Unequal Protection of the Laws

The Guilt-Free Soldier

New Science Raises the Specter of a World Without Regret

Up the Academy

Two-Bedroom Apartment in Manhattan Park

Torts Chamber?

Harvard Law School and Its Racial Woes

Hostos, Not Harvard

Confrontation With Cop Riles CUNY Students

Standard Issue

SATs, Grade Inflation, and Merit

Pigskin Pioneers

Slow Racial Progress and a Cloud of Dust

Nation

Left To My Own Devices

Memoirs of a wired student

War, Sex, and Dreams

Unsung AIDS Advance

One Vaccine Breatkthrough Overshadows Another