Thu, Feb 2, 2012, 1:34am
A couple of weeks ago, I was tucked away in suburbia, inching through a Starbucks drive-through.
Thu, Jan 26, 2012, 4:24am
When industrial engineering and operations research professor Donald Goldfarb arrived at Columbia’s School of Engineering and Applied Science nearly 30 years ago, the school was an entirely different place.
Thu, Jan 26, 2012, 4:14am
While browsing YouTube clips from Quentin Tarantino’s classic film, Pulp Fiction, I found a tantalizing video called “My Little Pulp Fiction.” It was the diner scene from Tarantino’s masterpiece, except a bright purple cartoon pony and similarly adorable dragon had replaced Samuel L.
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Thu, Jan 26, 2012, 3:51am
Full disclaimer: I came here today ready to defend Lana Del Rey. I had a really well-conceived, intellectual argument about Ms. Rey and her confusing past—which is arguably strange.
Thu, Jan 26, 2012, 3:31am
These days, the ability to interpret the images and shapes around us is arguably just as important as verbal competency.
Thu, Jan 26, 2012, 3:22am
“Hope” was the promise on which Obama ran his 2008 presidential campaign—a message that was both evocative and emotionally loaded for a nation engulfed in war, recession, and environmental crises.
Thu, Jan 26, 2012, 3:14am
On a roof in Taksim, Istanbul’s equivalent to Times Square (although less hated by its natives), I stand almost directly above the Bosphorus, the strait that divides the city.