The Deepfake Scam Era Is Upon Us. Here’s How to Get Ready.
Columbia cybersecurity expert Asaf Cidon explains the eerie rise of AI-powered email, phone, and video scams — and how anyone can fall for them
With Boots, Andy Parker Revisits the ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Era
When the screenwriter and producer was asked to adapt a military memoir into a TV series, the project struck a personal chord
Columbia’s Olympic Torch Bearer
Historian William Milligan Sloane 1868CC and the birth of the modern Olympic Games
Want to Meet New York’s Pizza Rats? There’s a Tour for That
With her “Garbage and Rats” walking tour, Suzanne Reisman ’00SIPA showcases the city that always squeaks
Recent Stories
Bennett Cerf and the Rise of the American Publishing House
In Nothing Random, Gayle Feldman charts the storied life and career of Random House cofounder Bennett Cerf 1920CC
Clearing the Path to Parenthood
Physicians are racing to find new treatments for infertility and recurrent miscarriages. But how far can they push the biology of reproduction?
Why You Can’t Always Trust Your Memory
Erin Kendall Braun ’09GS, ’18GSAS, a cognitive neuroscientist and memory expert, brings her insight to the courtroom and beyond
Can We Stop the Next Pandemic?
Hit with budget cuts, Columbia’s Global Alliance for Preventing Pandemics is working to get ahead of the next mass outbreak
How Frozen Visionary Jennifer Lee Got Her Disney Ending
After honing her filmmaking skills at Columbia, the writer-director went on to create one of Hollywood’s most successful franchises
How Corporations Trap Us Inside ‘Convenience Cocoons’
In The Age of Extraction, law professor Tim Wu warns about the unchecked power of tech platforms to manipulate our spending habits and emotions
How the Challenger Disaster Became a Case Study of the ‘Normalization of Deviance’
Forty years after the tragedy, Columbia sociologist Diane Vaughan reflects on her landmark work on organizational decision-making
20 Years of Modeling the Brain
At Columbia’s Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, scientists have spent the past two decades using computational models to predict neural behavior
The Scientist Teaching Cancer to Self-Destruct
“Ferroptosis,” a process discovered by biologist Brent R. Stockwell, could help defeat some of the deadliest cancers
Books
5 New Books for Your Winter Reading List
Cozy up with new reads from Mitch Albom ’82JRN, ’83BUS, Natan Last ’21SIPA, and other Columbia authors
The Subway Vigilante
In Five Bullets, CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams ’02JRN, ’02LAW looks back at a controversial 1984 shooting
Think Like a Data Scientist — No Coding Required
In The Little Book of Data, ad-tech executive Justin Evans ’93CC shows that anyone can succeed in our information-based economy
