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November 28, 2012Voice Choices
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May 11, 2012An intriguing email invite just came my way while I was sitting around pinching my nippies:
"I am a Women's and Gender Studies professor at the University of Miami and a Topfreedom activist since 1996. Quite simply, Topfreedom is the right for women to be bare-chested any time/place a man can take ... More >>
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May 9, 2012Film
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March 20, 2012If you redistricting fanatics out there were lamenting the fact that the drama around the drawing of new Congressional lines in the state is starting to wind down, fear not! Every ten years, states across the country redraw district lines based on new U.S. Census population counts. In the wonderful ... More >>
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November 16, 2011Blogs
August 2, 2011According to a recent analysis of census data from the Empire Center New York State Policy, New Yorkers are leaving for other states in the greatest numbers of the past three decades. However, this doesn't mean that our numbers are shrinking: The population rose from 18.9 million to 19.4 mill ... More >>
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May 26, 2011(This is not Dennis Pogue.)Whiskey is as American as apple pie. At least that's what Dennis Pogue, chief archaeologist at Mount Vernon, would have you believe. Over the last several years, he's spent much of his time making George Washington's whiskey (our first president was a distiller, in ... More >>
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May 17, 2011via ilike/FlickrToday in psychological studies from the New York Post, there's an intriguing exploration of how full of yourself you must be if you live in New York City. Because a person can't, just, like, move here for a job or something. Anyway, according to the Post, "There is reason to b ... More >>
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April 13, 2011Blogs
March 24, 2011via Hello Turkey ToeThe Census numbers are in, and New York City is more populated than ever before. But not much more. The New York Times reports that the 2010 count recorded a growth of about 166,000 people since 2000, bringing the current population to 8,175,133. Of those people, 8,175,130 ... More >>
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March 10, 2011One of them has a spine-covered penisResearchers have discovered the molecular workings that caused human penises to evolve and shed their prickly spines, which chimps and some other animals still have to this day. Scientific American describes how Stanford scientists went through the DNA seq ... More >>
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February 12, 2011Victoria BekiempisNo longer for the damn Buddhist elite!
The simple pancake, according to archeologists (and random web pages), has a lengthy history. The ubiquitous quickbread can supposedly be traced far back in the human fossil record, owing to the dish's simplicity and high nutrient cont ... More >>
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January 5, 2011Voice Choices
October 13, 2010Jerry Seinfeld directs Colin Quinn's solo show
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October 11, 2010Does the idea of hipsters as a sociological group or hipsterism as a sociological trend really merit the studying of hipsters as if they were an anthropological goldmine waiting to be excavated for crucial insights into the contemporary human psyche?
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September 15, 2010Voice Choices
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March 29, 2010
OK, New Yorkers, stop screwing around. Late last week, city officials said only six percent of you had actually mailed in your 2010 census forms. (That compared with a 16 percent rate nationally.)
That low rate might mean that many New Yorkers are confused or even afraid, says Ana Maria Archila, a ... More >>
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February 2, 2010The Rubin Museum's gone mad
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November 17, 2009Blogs
September 10, 2009Last month top female runner Caster Semenya of South Africa -- who recently won the women's world championship in the 800 meters with the amazing time of 1:55.45 -- had her gender questioned, and was submitted to sexual identity examinations by the International Association of Athletics Feder ... More >>
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August 19, 2009TheBusyBrain/flickrBloomberg today has a fun interview with Richard Wrangham, a Harvard primatologist whose new book, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, posits that it was learning to cook, not tools or agriculture, that sped up human evolution. Cooking, Wrangham explains, made food so ... More >>
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April 29, 2009A flooded civilization's survivors try to plug on
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January 14, 2009Voice Choices
December 10, 2008Blogs
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September 15, 2008Theater
June 10, 2008A quiet look at family upset in Vermont
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February 15, 2008Music
October 16, 2007Emo-prog just about as cumbersome as the title
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November 14, 2006In Kipnis's stylish essays, the joke's on women
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December 13, 2005Film
October 25, 2005Specials
October 18, 2005Theater
May 3, 2005News
June 11, 2002A Pataki-Appointed Suny Trustee's Conservative Crusade
Dance
August 28, 2001Performing Gender in Phnom Penh and on Gay Barricades
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May 8, 2001An Antiwar Institution Agonizes Over a President Who Killed Unarmed Vietnamese Civilians
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April 11, 2000Columbia Students Oppose Choice for Head of Latino Studies Program
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March 14, 2000Books
August 3, 1999News
June 15, 1999How Hannibal Lecter Gets Inside Our Heads
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