On Changing the Baton in Track Relays
With the 4x100m relays complete in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, one cannot help but wonder what might have been. Fortunately, the Jamaican men’s team fulfilled [more...]
Articles by Daniel Yeow
Summer Institute
I recently completed a paid internship at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, which is based at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia [more...]
Don’t Miss Your Train
it is lonely I stare into the belly of the beast column by column, only ribs, no guts a sliver of silver slips ‘tween platforms thunder shakes, rattles, screeches [more...]
Pillowfight!
Whoever came up with the idea of a random pillowfight in New York city deserves the Nobel Peace Prize (more than Henry Kissinger, anyway). Actually, I think it was these [more...]
State of the Planet
Every year, there’s a conference organized by the earth institute called “State of the Planet”. It has (apparently) grown every year, and is a fairly big [more...]
A Day in DC
I decided to visit the capital of the United States of America, Washington DC, for spring break. However, since I have a great deal of work to do over the break, I decided to [more...]
Food Shoot
News assignments are kinda cool, sports assignments aren’t bad either… but food… mmm…. Those who know me well know that I like food. I am capable of [more...]
Consilience
New York Tonight saw the launch of “Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development”. It is the first student-run interdisciplinary journal of sustainable [more...]
A Busy Week
It was a very busy week at Columbia… kicked off with Jeff Sachs and John Legend teaming up for the “Show Me” poverty action tour on Monday night. Somewhat [more...]
A Spectator
Occasionally, I surprise myself. Sometimes a paper that I wrote off-the-cuff ends up being published in an academic journal, maybe an offhand remark made as a joke at a board [more...]
MIT Mystery Hunt
Every year since about 1980, during MIT’s independent activity period (IAP), a mystery hunt takes place. This hunt is organised by the previous year’s winning [more...]
New York Adventures
My first Christmas and New Years in New York, starring Lily O’Neill, Caitlin Tierney, Nick Sheridan, Meribah Rose, and others. Lucky I live in New York… I [more...]