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Remember that name.

lazaruslong — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 02:53:56 -0800

Billy Joel was recently doing a Q&A at Vanderbilt University when a student named Michael Pollack asked if he could play “New York State of Mind” with him. Something really cool then happened. Make sure you watch all the way to the end for the awesome piano solo!

The Supercommuter

zarq — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 07:52:28 -0800

Joe Simonetti is a 57-year-old psychotherapist who lives with his wife in Pound Ridge, New York. His commute takes him from the northern reaches of exurban Westchester County to his office just south of Central Park. It's about three and a half hours each way. By bike. Single page version of the main article. Mr. Simonetti was mentioned in New York Magazine in 2009: Supercommuter. The article is by Tom Vanderbilt, author of the book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us) (excerpt) which focuses in part on the ways driver psychology can cause us to take risks and have accidents. He also has a "How We Drive" blog on his site, which includes a post about the Outside article. Here's a video interview with him about driver perceptions and the potential dangers of advances in automotive technology on StreetFilms. (A transcript is available at the link.) Mr. Vanderbilt writes for Slate, too. Mentioned: Milwaukee news cameraman, photographer and cyclist Jeff Frings' Bike Blog. Fring films his bike rides, then posts his (and other people's) worst encounters with car drivers. Here's a video.

It's about quality, not quantity

mudpuppie — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:52:28 -0800

For generations, anglers have performed worm grunting (a.k.a. charming, fiddling, snoring, rubbing, or calling) to entice worms out of the ground. Worm grunting even has its very own annual festival. After accompanying Grunting King Gary Revell Vanderbilt neurobiologist Kenneth Catania has explained why scraping a "stob" or twanging a pitchfork brings the worms a-callin'. His scientific, peer-reviewed findings, published in 2008, confirmed what 74-year-old Arkansas fisherman Hansell Hill done coulda told ya back in 2007. And Darwin, before him.

Fancy Helping Rearrange The Deckchairs On The S.S.Nation?

MiguelCardoso — Mon, 19 Aug 2002 09:46:17 -0800

Fancy Helping Rearrange The Deckchairs On The S.S.Nation? Witness the lavish excesses of Newport's "gilded age" as you visit the summer cottages of the Vanderbilts, Astors and Morgans; relive the fairy-tale wedding reception of Jacqueline Bouvier at her childhood summer home, Hammersmith Farm... Got a few thousand dollars to spare? Fancy a luxury cruise, leisurely discussing the evils of globalisation and the Bush administration with the likes of George McGovern, Howard Zinn, Katha Pollitt and the editorial gang of The Nation? Welcome aboard! Or perhaps Sir or Madam would feel more at home rubbing elbows and spilling eggnogs with Kenneth Starr, Milton Friedman, Dan Quayle, Tom De Lay on the S.S.National Review. What?! Still too left wing? Well, go ahead and join Oliver North, the NRA and other soft-spoken voices of moderation on their Freedom Cruise to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the glorious liberation of Grenada! Your own private tour of the island, conducted by Ollie himself, is included.

MBA students at Vanderbilt University

andrewraff — Fri, 26 Apr 2002 13:06:48 -0800

MBA students at Vanderbilt University examine Google's business strategy. Presented in Powerpoint: Google.com, Google: E-Strategy Analysis, A Brief Look at Google and Google: A Strategy Study