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Amid the ongoing tensions between North Korea and the international community, a educational scheme created by two young men from the US is engaging directly with citizens and students inside the country. Organisers of the Pyongyang Project say their programme is breaking down barriers to the secretive state that government bodies cannot.

I don’t get angry very often. But I’m angry right now. On May 10th, I’m moving to Manitou Springs, Colorado, to teach all summer at Summit Ministries. I’m living in a cabin at the base of Pikes Peak, teaching a whopping two hours per week, and starting work on my third book. But, obviously, that’s not why I’m angry. I’m angry because I will be missing a very important event on May 22nd at UNC – Gomorrah, which was previously known as UNC- Greensboro, and is also sometimes referred to as UNC Gonorrhea. The UNCG Speech and Hearing Clinics –...

Brown Discovers Hangovers Malcolm A. Kline, December 30, 2009 Here’s a research project the Ivy League has just tackled that people outside the Ivies have been onto for generations. “Researchers with the Brown University Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies gave subjects alcohol on an empty stomach, let them sleep and then checked their ability to think in the morning,” The Washington Post Express reported on Tuesday December 29, 2009. “Although the subjects though they’d be fine behind the wheel of a car, the researchers found they should probably wait a few more hours.” I wonder if they had a...

Last week a Department of State retiree and his wife were arrested and charged with spying for Cuba for thirty years. In this article I will sort out what we know, don't know and need to explore about this matter. Walter Kendall Myers, Jr .and his wife Gwendolyn Steingarber Myers

Several weeks ago the Brown University faculty ratified a student petition demanding that the university abandon its recognition of Columbus Day. The directive was enacted by Brown’s Native American student group, whose spokesmen defend their activism by pointing out the atrocities committed by Christopher Columbus and his men upon the indigenous people of the newly discovered continent. Some have suggested that the holiday be renamed Indigenous Day, but for now Brown has decided to settle for Fall Weekend — a weekend in which Brown students and professors will still enjoy a Monday off from work. Now that Brown University has...

But, of course, they keep the day off. LOL!

Recent successful tests of neural prosthetics bring the devices closer to widespread use. Paralyzed patients dream of the day when they can once again move their limbs. That dream is making its way to becoming a reality, thanks to a neural implant created by John Donoghue and colleagues at Brown University and Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems. In 2004, Matthew Nagle, who is paralyzed due to a spinal-cord injury, became the first person to test the device, which translated his brain activity into action (see "Implanting Hope," March 2005, and "Brain Chips Give Paralyzed Patients New Powers"). Nagle's experience with the prosthetic...

Scientists could generate a black hole as often as every second when the world's most powerful particle accelerator comes online in 2007. This potential "black hole factory" has raised fears that a stray black hole could devour our planet whole ... But the chance of planetary annihilation by this means "is totally miniscule," ... For one thing, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking calculated all black holes should emit radiation, and that tiny black holes should lose more mass than they absorb, evaporating within a billionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second, "before they could gobble up any significant...

As a freshman during one of his first days on the campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, Travis James Rowley was told not to use the terms “boyfriend” or “girlfriend” to describe a significant other. Rowley continued to be baffled by his ultra-liberal surroundings as he trudged through a sensitivity training course during his beginning weeks at Brown, while his minority classmates arrived at school a week early to attend what Rowley dubs as “victim-hood training.” This extreme political correctness proved to be the common thread that wove Brown together during Rowley’s four years at the prestigious liberal...

If a liberal bias can be proven anywhere in academia, it is most likely to be discovered among the enclaves known as the Ivy League. Brown University is certainly no exception, as Travis James Rowley learned as he began his undergraduate journey there in Providence, Rhode Island. The messages he received from the university and from student organizations that were encouraged by the university were overwhelmingly liberal. As Rowley writes in his book, Out of Ivy:How the Liberal Ivy Created a Committed Conservative this is what he heard: • Have sex. Lots of it. And with as many partners as...

Brown offers Kim Jong-Il honorary degree in bid to one-up Yale Glen Scheuttler Issue date: 4/3/06 Section: Campus News Media Credit: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea North Korean strongman Kim Jong-Il received an honorary degree from the University Saturday. Following on the heels of Yale University's decision to admit former Taliban spokesman Rahmatullah Hashemi, Brown has awarded an honorary doctorate to reclusive North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il. Administrators said that though the move is sure to provoke controversy, the partnership demonstrates Brown's commitment to inclusion and its desire to become an internationally recognized institution. "Yale might try to bring different...

First Muslim Chaplain At Brown University 02-20-2006 7:37 AM (Providence, RI) -- A Muslim chaplain has joined the staff of the Office of Chaplains and Religious Life at Brown University. Rumee Ahmed is one of a handful of Muslim chaplains on university and college campuses across the country. The chaplain of the University, Reverend Janet Cooper Nelson, says hiring a Muslim chaplain brings "greater wholeness" to religious life at Brown. Copyright 2006 Metro Networks Communications Inc., A Westwood One Company

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The city of New Orleans could lose up to 80 percent of its black population if people displaced by Hurricane Katrina are not able to return to their damaged neighborhoods, according to an analysis released Thursday by a Brown University sociologist. Blacks and the poor were disproportionately affected by Katrina, according to the study led by Brown Professor John R. Logan. The analysis concludes that the difficulty in moving back to the city could mean a massive loss of population, overwhelmingly among blacks. New Orleans was more than 65 percent black before Katrina hit in August,...

Don't bother to read through this moron's article. Skimming it is painful enough. Just skip to my summary at the end... I had good reason to look for the Sex Power God posters this past week: A friend of mine had posed for them. Upon finding the posters, I was pleased to discover my friend and 15 other lusty-looking Brunonians in various forms, positions and states of dress. On Wednesday, however, I discovered something not so pleasing: On Pembroke campus, the SPG posters were now accompanied by a sheet with the Oxford English Dictionary definition of "objectification" typed on it....

As someone who lives in the South, I find claims of Confederate heritage insulting, since they draw a tie from modern Southerners to a group that was, at best, a group of misguided traitors and, at worst, a state fighting for the right to subjugate an entire race of people. A postwar Germany did all it could to make peaceful overtures with Israel and continues to foster positive relations with Jews worldwide...the South has done nothing of the sort. The least they could do is stop waving the flag around everywhere. I admire Thomas Jefferson — I refuse to admire...