True fact: Sarah Palin doesn't eat babies.

Cars don't run into you in Riverside Park.

The stock market crashed! Now what?

Fight Club was released nine years ago. Don't you feel really old? Like, over nine years old?

Columbia wants to demolish and rebuild in every direction! Watch out Lincoln Center.

Columbia students may not like lines in John Jay, but they sure do like to spend their parents' money!


It's been seven years since 9/11, and the city's firefighters still come here, to Firemen's Memorial on 100th St. and Riverside. The Ground Zero memorial is restricted to those from FDNY 343 and their family members.

"It's sad that an event like this has to bring us all out," said Officer Pat McNeely, from Ottawa, explaining that the force comes together when someone dies in the line of duty. "Word always travels really fast in this job. Someone somewhere in the city always has the pulse on some other department."

Hundreds of blue-suited firemen gathered, talking in low voices, with bagpipe strains in the background.

For more memorials in the city, check here.

- LBD


Conscious of spring's glorious birth today, David Helfand, resident nutty professor of Astronomy, posed a curious question at the beginning of his Beyond the Solar System class: "Would you rather hear my prepared lecture or take a walk?" One hundred sorrowful humanities majors awoke, and Helfand led them on an impromptu adventure in Riverside Park to show "how a scientist looks at the world." Bwog is still unsure of that, but we did gain other wisdom while tripping over fallen tree branches:

-The Hudson River isn't actually a river... it's a fjord! Hot!

-Move to northern Alberta (it's a Canadian province!) in anticipation of huge shifts in the Global Climate! "It's going to be really balmy."

-The Day After Tomorrow's "time scale is wrong by a factor of 1000."

-Don't eat eels out of the Hudson! They're full of PCBs!

-300 million years ago, it was a 45 minute walk from here to Africa!

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