Yale University

Heavy Drinkers May Gain Brain Power from Alcohol

Teetotalers take note: Alcohol may benefit the brains of serious drinkers. Researchers at Yale University found that vigorous imbibers can burn acetate (released as the body metabolizes alcohol) more easily than moderate drinkers. Those who binge-drink often are able to "tap into an alternate fuel s ... More >>

Hey, Ladies: Biking Might Make Your Crotch Numb!

Bicycling is fun, but going numb in your ladyparts is not fun. Like, at all. As has been recently reported, spending time in certain cycling positions doesn't just cause erectile dysfunction in men: It might mess up ladies' sex lives, too. Anyway, here's what's up: if you have ever been on a bik ... More >>

Surveilling Muslim Groups Is Necessary to Protect Free Press, Bloomberg Tells Reporters

Reporters repeatedly grilled Mayor Mike Bloomberg this morning about recent reports of the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslim student groups at campuses throughout the Northeast. Bloomberg shot back at them that the NYPD policies are there to protect freedoms such as the free pres ... More >>

I'm Being Taught at Yale!

As you may have read in yesterday's Page Six, Yale University is currently offering a course in nightlife which features texts by me! My work has finally gone to college! Doctoral candidate Madison Moore is teaching "Dance Music and Nightlife Culture in New York City," for those who can afford to ... More >>

David R. Yale, Queens Man, Issues Pink Slip to Citigroup CEO

Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit, still unaware of his termination. ​We got an interesting e-mail this morning from a man in Bayside, Queens. David R. Yale, a 67-year-old consultant, is firing Vikram Pandit, the CEO of Citigroup. Yale mailed a pink slip to Pandit that notifies him of his terminati ... More >>

Metro-North Conductor Screeched At By 'Well-Educated' Woman

The award for most insufferable person of the week goes (not without a challenge) to the woman yelling at her Metro-North conductor, who calmly asked the customer to "keep it down and stop using profanity or to take it to the vestibule," according to the YouTube description. "Do you know what school ... More >>

PRAISE IN THE TERMINAL

Mbalax's finest stops by the Blue Note Jazz Fest

Yale's Frats Just As Fratty As Can Be

​Yale is under federal investigation for "its failure to eliminate a hostile sexual environment." Its frat boys seem to be running rampant, not letting their fancy Ivy League-ness get in the way of behaving like cavemen. Sixteen students filed a complaint in March accusing the university of a brea ... More >>

Hunger-Free Kids Act Passed; There Might Be Dairy in Your Tofutti

​Farmers across the South are dealing with a drought that began this spring. Hot, dry weather has damaged peanut fields, cotton plants, and citrus trees. [Washington Post] More than two-thirds of the city's public school kids will now get free or discounted school lunches as part of the new ... More >>

The Perils of Local v. Non-Local Food and the Pleasures of Dumpster Diving

dailyinvention/Flickr​To add yet more grist to the Is Local Food Really Better? mill, Nation's Restaurant News convened three chefs to hold a completely unscientific experiment to determine whether you can actually taste the difference between non-local and local food and wine. The result of ... More >>

The Week in Food Blogs: Spaghetti Tacos, Free Malaysian Food

This week in food blogs... Grub Street tracked down the old Gourmet masthead, one year later. Eater rounded up a day of taco news, from the spaghetti taco crazy to Korean tacos. Meanwhile, Feast got excited about Andrew Carmellini's spaghetti tacos at Mercadito.

"Ho-Ho-Homosexual!" The First Gay Pride March, One Year After Stonewall

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 2, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 27 A Happy Birthday For Gay Liberation By Jonathan Black They stretched in a line, from Gimbels to Times Square, thousands and thousands and thousands, chanting, waving, screaming -- the outrageous and the ou ... More >>

Fired General Stanley McChrystal Gets a New Job at Yale

​General Stanley McChrystal has a new high-falutin' academic gig! After that whole whoopsie over the Rolling Stone article in which he was quoted making disparaging comments about President Obama and other White House leaders -- and then fired from his post as commander of the Afghanistan war ... More >>

The Week of the Yalien Invasion: A Reaction Rundown and Why They Win

​Maybe you've noticed the assault. No, not the hipsters abusing the Chinese people, though maybe there is some overlap. The real issue is more extraterrestrial than entitled NYU students, who are practically native at this point. It's the Yaliens -- they're everywhere, taking over New York Cit ... More >>

What's The Best Way To Kill Yourself?

​A couple of horrifying suicides have made headlines lately--the Yale student who leapt to his death from atop the Empire State building and the gay wrestler who downed a batch of pills to permanently relieve his pain. It's a tragedy that anyone ends up feeling that self extinction is the onl ... More >>

LIVE TO CREATE

The Armory is a mighty large space. Chaos will ensue. Maybe.

EVERY BEAT COUNTS

Experimental drumming for the most experimental house

FOILED AGAIN

Classic thrills at the NYU Fencing Invitational

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Putting The New Back In New Haven

Pulp Fictions: Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons & True Stories Volume Two and The Best American Comics 2008

Horoscope

The Mind-Body Problem

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

Wendy Wasserstein

1950–2006

Don't Ask, Don't Tell

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

Yale's Fab Four

Deep in the Heart of Texts

Coming of Age

1976–1985: Punk to Pomo, Basquiat to Breakdancing

'Don't Tell'

Morning Report 9/8/05
'Noxious Gumbo'

Stress Test

Smarty grads find easy money in SAT prep for wealthy, nerved-up kids

The Blue-Blood Revolution

A movement to help the poorest students grows—at the Ivies

Aeschylus or Swahili?

The changing notions of what students need to know

Art

Recount in Progress

Moving Words

Yale University Press post-Haskell: Will it still publish dance books?

Dancing: A Love Story

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Butoh, Tanztheater, Modern Dance, and Ballet

The Tribes of Yale

Bush, the Clintons, and Dean at the Birth of a Culture War

Cyborg Liberation Front

Inside the Movement for Posthuman Rights

Brownies and Yalies

Is ZZ Tops?

Tomb Raiders

Bush's Secret Society Hits the Mainstream

XXX-tra Credit

Ticket to Nowhere

Pataki Court Decision Cites Schools as Track to Service Careers

Fresh Start

Where New Grads Turn Into Emerging Artists

New Haven Vice

• • • Secrets From the Staxxx

Porn, Chicken, and Boy Toys

Decision Time at NYU

A University Debates Its Future

Spread ‘Em

Pro-Choice Is No-Choice on Campus

Laverdiere’s Mystery Science Theater

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