If only every company were as humble and helpful with their cheap, novelty products as are the #PenisPans #Cake folks http://t.co/zSzIV8smnd
Bio: Mark Hay attends Columbia University where he is the Editor-in-Chief of Awaaz: The Voice of South Asia and the Columbia Political Review, and writes for Bwog and the Blue and White.
On any given dry day, 1.3 billion gallons of water flow off the streets and down drains into New York City’s sewage system.
Most of the time the system works flawlessly, and invisibly, and so sewage gets less attention than other infrastructural issues, like transit and communications. Plus sewage is just gross. More
Postedsdf
on May 15th, 2012 9:48amIn the spring of 2009, Columbia University opened two foreign outposts. There wasn't much fanfare at the time—the ribbon-cutting ceremonies garnered less coverage than, say, each of the university’s expansions into Manhattanville.
Last year, just as quietly, Columbia opened two more centers, in Mumbai and Paris. And later this year, Columbia will open a center in Istanbul, with a center in Santiago hot on its heels.
By 2012, according to Kenneth Prewitt, Columbia’s recently minted vice president for global centers, the university intends to have centers operational in Rio de Janeiro and Nairobi. This, all of this, is only Phase One. More
Postedsdf
on September 16th, 2011 11:36amUsually it’s a matter for concern when a waterway reaches a toxicity level measurable in parts per billion. In some places in the Gowanus Canal contaminants compose up to 4.5 percent of the total mass of sediments. More
Postedsdf
on October 26th, 2010 1:30pmOver the last week the sprawling, awkward conversation about the “Ground Zero Mosque” got a lot bigger. There were the statements from President Obama that officially invited every politician in America into what had been a regional debate, and there was an unsolicited endorsement of the development from militant Islamic group Hamas, which prompted questions about the non-American Muslim view on the debate and its possible consequences. More
Postedsdf
on August 19th, 2010 8:12amAs Carroll Gardens becomes home to one of Brooklyn’s yuppiest Restaurant Rows, a sort-of Division II Manhattan for recent college graduates and a single-family brownstone dream for magazine editors and downtown types, it’s perhaps unsurprising that, finally, the Scotto family power-base is thinning out. More
Postedsdf
on August 10th, 2010 8:52amIt hasn’t been easy to characterize Muslim reaction to the controversy around a proposed Muslim-led community center at Ground Zero, even for people who make a study of such things.
“[American Muslims] all come from radically different cultures and social backgrounds,” said Professor Peter Awn, Dean of the School of Graduate Studies at Columbia University and an expert in the role of Islam in the politics and societies of modern Muslim populations. A Brooklyn resident and former Jesuit priest with strong ties to the local Muslim community, Awn spent three years before and three years after 9/11 conducting a large study to determine the size and character of Islam in the five boroughs. More
Postedsdf
on August 9th, 2010 7:59am
