Get your kids interested in farming: here’s how?

  This appeared in my e-mail.  I tried to find out where it came from, but no luck.  Can anyone tell me its source?

Some comments on the progress of the farm bill

I haven’t said anything recently about the current status of the farm bill, mainly because it is too early in the political process to know what is going to happen. On April 26, the Senate Ag Committee voted to pass the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2012. The bill still has a long [...]

In solidarity with Quebec student strikers, Free University to occupy Washington Square Park

ANNOUNCING THE FREE UNIVERSITY IN SOLIDARITY WITH QUEBEC STRIKE!! The Free University is hosting a pop-up occupation Tuesday, May 22nd in Washington Square Park at 5PM on the 100th day of the Quebec students’ unlimited strike, already one of the largest student mobilizations in recent history. During 100 days of strike, contempt, and resistance, students [...]

Fukushima 4 may cause “the worst nuclear storm the world has ever seen”

Fukushima Reactor 4 poses massive global risk Andy Johnson, CTVNews.ca Date: Saturday May. 19, 2012 8:20 PM ET More than a year after a devastating earthquake and tsunami triggered a massive nuclear disaster, experts are warning that Japan isn’t out of the woods yet and the worst nuclear storm the world has ever seen could [...]

more on the relative costs of healthy/unhealthy food – wonkish

I’ve had a chance to read the recent Economic Research Service report called “Are Healthy Foods Really More Expensive?”, written by Carlson and Frazao. The main finding of the research is that whether healthy foods are more expensive depends on … Continue reading →

is healthy food really more expensive? (wonkish)

Whew. Another semester is just about over (only 20 more papers to read!). But I am back! The Economic Research Service plans to release a report (later today, I think) on how to measure prices of healthy food, and I … Continue reading →

Computer Games by Steinhardt’s Jan Plass are Catalyst for Chemistry Learning

Thanks to Jan Plass, kinetic molecular theory can be as easy as making a cup of hot chocolate. Following a four-year study of 357 rural students, 361 students in urban areas, in a total of 25 high school classrooms in … Continue reading →

With $2.2 Million, Husband and Wife Research Team Study Speech Effects of Parkinson’s Sufferers

For Diana Sidtis, NYU Steinhardt Professor of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, and her husband, John J. Sidtis, research professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine, the mystery of how DBS affected the “low, soft, and … Continue reading →

Get over the s.o.

Ben Brantley of The New York Times did a great service last week when he called for an end to the automatic standing ovation on Broadway (the s.o.).  I couldn’t agree more and highly recommend that we all work to end this very silly and now meaningless cultural phenomenon.  Read Brantley’s take by clicking here. [...]

Once on Broadway: Thank God, some people still understand how to make theatre

So let me be frank. I probably go to the theatre more than the average person because it’s what I do.  I make theatre and I teach theatre; therefore, I also have to be a consumer of theatre.  It’s how I stay current, and hopefully I see work that inspires me to create and teach [...]

Winners announced for Music Technology's 1st Annual Recording Competition

Last Saturday, at the Music Technology Open House, Music and Performing Arts Professions Chair Robert Rowe presented the awards to the first annual NYU Music Technology Recording competition winners. Studio Recording: Hansdale Hsu Electronic Production: Aimee Norwich, Senem Pirler Acoustic...

Music Tech 2012 Open House Recap

Last Saturday the Music Technology Open house filled the 6th floor conference room and James L. Dolan Recording studio with artistic and scientific research and productions. At the end of the event, Music Technology faculty handed out several awards: Outstanding...

Italian university switches to English

Italian university switches to English:

BBC - 

“The waters of globalisation are rising around higher education - and the university believes that if it remains Italian-speaking it risks isolation and will be unable to compete as an international institution”

Call me a crotchety old preservationist, but this all seems a little sad. And also inevitable.

I can’t complain too much, though. Attending the university that most champions international competition - and probably drives most of it with its insatiable satellisation of the world - I’ve totally bought into the whole globalisation of higher Ed. thing.

Guilt. 

China: the world's cleverest country?

China: the world's cleverest country?:

BBC -

“One a recent trip to a poor province in China, he says he saw that schools were often the most impressive buildings. He says in the West, it is more likely to be a shopping centre”.

These findings kind of fly in the face of the whole idea of decentralising education. Although having said that, I wonder how many Uighurs or Tibetans were included in the survey. Pisa doesn’t analyse, obviously, equality and justice in social studies curricula.

Anyway making human rights jibes at China is like shooting fish in a barrel. These are still fascinating findings. When I was teaching in Mexico a few years ago, Pisa data was everything. There was a mad rush to make Mexican schools at Finnish as possible. I wonder if a Chinese makeover will be on the cards next.

Don’t know when PISA 2012 results are to made available, but I’m looking forward to the Helsinki vs. Shanghai battle royale.

MUBG Alum Kristen Bussandri's Singing Career Takes Off

For Kristen Bussandri (G '08), it was a fairly easy decision to leave her hometown of Montreal and move to the Big Apple. The singer made the move to pursue a Master's degree in Music Business, so she could learn...

Alums Folayan Knight and Khari Cain (aka Needlz) Talk about Effort, Drive, and Success

Guest post by Peter Schwinge, G '12, President of the MUBG Student Ambassador BoardOn Friday, Feb 24th students from the Music Business Graduate program attended their first Professional Development Sequence of the spring semester and were treated to a wonderful...

Microsoft Research opens New York City lab

I am giddy with pleasure to share Jennifer Chayes’ announcement that Microsoft Research is opening a new lab in New York City that will be filled with computational social science types. The New England lab that I call home combines qualitative social science, empirical economics, machine learning, and mathematics. We’ve long noted the need for [...]

Reflections on Fear in a Networked Society

I’ve been trying to work through some ideas on how fear operates in a networked society. At Webstock in New Zealand, I gave a talk called “Culture of Fear + Attention Economy = ?!?!” Building on this, I gave a talk at SXSW called “The Power of Fear in Networked Publics.” While my thinking in [...]

Gay and Gray: What We Need to Know About Aging Gay Men

It imperative that the delivery of health care to older gay men focus on the totality of our existence and consider our life experiences, including how the AIDS crisis and a lifetime of bigotry have compromised and shaped our health. Yet we have little data on the health of older gay men.

Re-Centering Science in the Fight Against AIDS

Despite many significant biomedical advances, we now enter the fourth decade of AIDS with a largely unabated crisis still on our hands.

Congrats to Dr. Buchwald for receiving USG Outstanding Faculty Award

Congratulations to Dr. Adam Buchwald who received an Outstanding Faculty Award from the Undergraduate Student Government. He was recognized for his teaching and his ability to "make students feel like people not numbers"....

Congrats to Dr. Sidtis on NIH funding!

Congratulations to Dr. Sidtis who received funding as Co-PI (with Dr. John Sidtis) on an R01 grant from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders for the grant titled "Cortical-subcortical interaction in PD and normal speech." This funding...

Montreal, first impressions

When I told people of my plans to move to Montreal, it usually prompted one of two reactions: one was some version of joyful envy, many people exclaiming breathlessly “Montreal is one of my favorite cities,” one person once even clutching my arm and told me as he looked me straight in the eye: “you [...]

The Best of NYC

Now that the semester is done and now that I have compiled my crazy paperwork for Canada (wow, it is a lot), I will be heading in six days to the wonderful city of Montreal to settle down, at least for a few years. I am ready to leave but it is not an easy move, [...]

Penn State and the Crisis of Masculinity

It's time we understand that being human and being a man should be one and the same; that the reason why we have survived for so long as a species is because we, men and women, care about others and respond when others are in danger and need our help.

Standing by Our Boys

One reason for the popularity of Rob Reiner's coming-of-age classic "Stand by Me," as suggested by studies of boys, is that the film's depiction of friendships during adolescence is hauntingly familiar.

Occupy Climate Change!

Occupy climate change! Why? Because the transformations that Occupy seeks in social and economic life are the same as those needed to sustain conditions suitable for human and non-human life on our planet. So the phrase “occupy climate change” is correctly understood to mean “the political economy of sustaining the biosphere and the cultural imaginary.” [...]

The Force of Law #OWS

For the past few days, Occupy locations have reverberated to the sound of the force of law. I mean this literally. I was awakened at 3.30am on November 15 by the sound of what I think were helicopters above lower Manhattan. The combination of police barricades and the closure of the subways meant that no [...]

Help Support ADA

Hello all! If you're involved in the nutrition world at all, you may have heard about the CMS statement on pediatric counseling for obesity. If you're not familiar, fear not. I am here to educate. Esentially, CMS determined it will...

Quantum Leap Delicious

Remember a few weeks ago how I posted about my favorite brunch spots? Add this guy to the list: Quantum Leap Foods Just had brunch there with a friend (also in NYU's Nutrition program), and we are OBSESSED! This was...

Too Much Going On!

I seem pretty upbeat on here, don't I? Well, life in graduate school has its ups and downs. And I have been going through it! It is finals time...and I have presentations, papers, and formal finals to complete. I'm pretty...

Fridays Are Fun!

Maybe it's the day, maybe it's the month, who knows?! This past Friday (better known as "yesterday) was nothing but crazy fun madness at the middle school. It's so hard to focus on grading when one of the teachers buys...

Chilean Students Show the Way

Chilean students are experimenting with new forms of protest, such as marathon runs around congress, kiss-ins, and a 3,000-student performance of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" to imply that the education system in Chile has become a zombie.

Egypt and Wisconsin: Democracy is Alive and Well

It is time for educators of all stripes to organize to defend to defend rights like collective bargaining.

Welcome to Food Matters! Come join the conversation

We are excited to finally be launching our very own Food Studies journal. With content ranging from food scholarship to recipes to food photography, videos and interviews to restaurant review; there are endless ways to contribute and stay informed...

Traveling Tastes: A Festa da Boa Morte

Upriver from Salvador, In the interior of the state of Bahia in northeastern Brazil in the former Portuguese colonial center of sugar and tobacco plantation agriculture there is a religious festival with both Catholic and African roots, named A...