Stanford University

Brooklyn Kolache Co. is a Hidden Brunch Gem Inside Skinny Dennis

With native sons Willie Nelson and Kenny Rogers crooning classic country ballads out of the jukebox, it's no wonder homesick Texans flock to Williamsburg's honky tonk bar, Skinny Dennis. Opened in late February, the bar quickly established itself with its weekly lineup of live music, vintage video g ... More >>

Free Online Classes: Unlocking the Ivory Tower

Colleges flock to offer courses for all, but questions abound

Golden Child

Are Organic and Biodynamic Wines Worth It?

Last week I attended a panel about biodynamic and organic agriculture and its influence on the wine industry. Roger Cohen's recent op-ed in the New York Times was a hot topic -- the one in which he enthusiastically (and myopically) applauded a study by Stanford University that concluded organic food ... More >>

What's the Point of Organic Food?

Scientists at Stanford University have concluded that organic fruits, vegetables, and meat are not significantly more nutritious than the same conventionally-grown foods. But was anyone under the impression that "organic" stood for "nutritious"? I'm not sure I know anyone paying the extra money fo ... More >>

Research Suggests That Organic Food Actually Isn't Healthier

So that extra two dollars you're spending on organic produce might not actually be worth it. According to some researchers at Stanford University, organic food is no more nutritious than non-organic food. "People choose to buy organic foods for many different reasons. One of them is perceived heal ... More >>

Aunray Stanford, Teen Inmate, Seriously Injured At Troubled City Jail

Another teen inmate was seriously injured over the weekend in the Robert N. Davoren Center, where teenagers are housed. Correction officials confirm that Aunray Stanford, 18, was injured in a struggle with correction officers and taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. He subsequently released a ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: March 21-27, 2012

Council Members Ask Mayor To Include City College, Columbia in Engineering Plan

In December, Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced his plans to partner with Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology to build a two-million-square-foot applied science and engineering campus on Roosevelt Island. The new campus is part of Bloomberg's Applied Sciences NYC initiative ... 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 >>

Studies Look At What The Internet Can Do To And For Kids

via​There was a period in history when we assume being a teenage girl or a girl on the verge of teenagedom must have meant listening to a Joni Mitchell record while writing in a diary. Now, there's Taylor Swift, blogs, Facebook, texting and the like. It's all so confusing. So two recent studie ... More >>

Outside People Goes Inside China

The Vineyard Theatre mounts Zayd Dohrn's comedy

All the Single (Black) Ladies

Ralph Richard Banks dares to wonder Is Marriage for White People?

Part of Obama Health Care Program Scrapped; Bishop Indicted for Failing to Report Abuse; Steve Jobs Memorial

​The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act, or CLASS, has been cut from the health care bill signed by Obama in 2010. The program relied on monthly premiums and would offer protection to those who signed up. CNN reports that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius ... More >>

Human Penises Used to Have Spikes, Wait, Used to Have?

One of them has a spine-covered penis​Researchers 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 >>

Dumb Hashtags More Popular than Smart, Newsy Ones (Study)

​According to a new study, those lame hashtags like "#worstpickuplines" and "#rulesforgirls" and "#stuffifoundinmynose" or whatever tend to catch on much more quickly and become more widespread than the serious ones, like "#jan25" or "#egypt". And apparently you're more likely to buy a new gad ... More >>

Open Door on Metro-North Train Horrifying to All But People Standing Right Next to It

Pretty much all the New York papers are covering the latest MTA HORROR: This time, a door that didn't close on a Metro-North train running from New Canaan, Connecticut, to Grand Central Station. It was open nearly all the way from 125th Street to GCT! Somebody might have gotten hurt! (We presume the ... More >>

Love Is Like Morphine: Take Two and Call Me in the Morning

​Seems like the grand and infinite powers of love just keep coming up in science and the news. This is probably not only because everyone wants to read about how love is like crack, but also because love really does have some weird powers. Take this latest study, in which researchers at Stanfo ... More >>

Fun Facts About Google's First Employee

​Craig Silverstein met Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford before the turn of the century and became the robot car-creating search engine giant's first employee. Allegedly he is a human. Needless to say, he's never needed another job and didn't even finish his doctorate. This weeke ... More >>

Mom's Mad as Hell and Not Gonna Take It Anymore in Education Doc Race to Nowhere

Rich Woman Marrying Rich Man in Expensive Ceremony with Famous Guests

​This week, a Stanford undergrad created a website called Wedding Credential that catalogs keywords used in New York Times wedding announcements. ""People like to make fun of 'elites' but also to read about themselves and I think the wedding section sort of provides a bit of both," he told the ... More >>

Charlie St. Cloud, Starring Zac Efron's Abs

License to Rage: Getting Mad Is Good for You!

​Angry? You're gonna like this one. Studies show that getting pissed and being vocal about it is just as vital to a healthy life as being calm and professional, feeling content now and again, and/or getting your regular intake of food and water and/or wine. According to a recent piece in the N ... More >>

Sex and the City Vs. Nature

Aging disgracefully, the franchise struggles to stay forever young

The Board of Health Has Voted to Require Restaurants to Post Letter Grades

​Last December, the Board of Health proposed a letter-grading system for restaurant sanitary inspections. The new system would require restaurants to post their A, B, or C grades where customers can see them, providing a more accessible alternative to trawling through the Health Department's s ... More >>

Bloomberg Approves of Study Saying That Calorie Postings Are Making Us Order Fewer Fatpants Foods at Starbucks

Apparently, people are actually reading those little signs.​ Calorie posting skeptics, be damned: Mayor Bloomberg's office wants us to know that there's a study, from a bunch of people at Stanford, that says that New York calorie postings have indeed made a difference in how many calories peop ... More >>

Free Will Astrology

The Mind-Body Problem

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful—and smart: College students who model

Scattered Class

Software gives peek at admissions odds

Design for Living

A theoretical physicist weighs in on a hot-button topic

Horoscope

Horoscope

PH.Dotcom

What if professors could lecture 24-7? Blog culture invades academia.

Skyhole

Artist with green dentist's chair reflects on the old trolley days

The Ideology Police

Targeting Middle East studies, zealots' 'homeland security' creates campus insecurity

Sports

Wired to Wired

Dean Finds That Courting Blogocrats Means Answering Tough Questions

Oh That Scott!

Revenge of the Nerd: Cyberpunk Professor Rocks His Body

Lords of Discipline

Other People's Property

Academics Square Off Against Hollywood on Internet Content

Aborting Crime

Fewer Fetuses, Fewer Felonies?

The 'Wrongs' of 'Mr. Civil Rights'

Why Jesse Jackson's Political Comeback Seems Doomed

Flagrant Fouls

The College Basketball Real-Life Top 25

Quit Playing Games With My Hard Drive

In Search of the Fur Bat

The True Story of Psychical Research at Stanford University

Beyond Advanced Placement

Prep schools rethink a standard

Never Again

The History of American Eugenics Is Explored Online

NY Mirror

Game Misconducts

College Football's Real-Life Top 25

Minetta Creek