Friday, May 02, 2008 

Take the Editors Blog challenge

It's Scurvy Awareness Day. By now, the festivities have been going for hours, with no end in sight. To mix things up, we thought we'd hold a contest of our own.

Everyone knows it's impossible to drink one gallon of milk in an hour. But what about a gallon of orange juice? We have no idea, but we'd like to find out. Here's what you can do:

Step 1.) Run down to your corner store and grab yourself a gallon of the finest OJ you can find. It doesn't matter if it's pulp-free or homestyle, although for accuracy's sake you should make a note of which kind and which brand you choose. (For the purposes of this challenge, Sunny D is off limits).

Step 2.) Consume. Remember to set your timer with initial swig of juice.

Step 3.) Report back to us after an hour. Ideally there would be video evidence, but we'll accept compelling anecdotes as well.

The winner will be receive immortality, and possibly an IgNoble prize. All in the name of science. Good luck!

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When life gives you lemons...

Today, as most of you are surely aware, is the most wonderful day of the year: International Scurvy Awareness Day. It's a day to drink orange juice and reflect on how great it is to have gums that don't bleed. We'll be commemorating the event with a full day of blogging. It should be fun.

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Tuesday, January 01, 2008 

Wonk and circumstance

In his earlier post, Matt incorrectly associates Mike Huckabee's absolutely insane press conference with Ronald Reagan's one-liner about age. This is the problem with conservatives: Everything has to be related in some way to Reagan. I'm told Mongolians are the same way with Ghengis Khan. A more appropriate connection is OJ Simpson's aborted "novel," If I Did It, Here's How, where the former Hertz pitchman and Heisman trophy winner recounted, step by step, how he would have gone about killing Ron and Nicole. You know, if he did it.

The press conference itself was surreal. You can watch it all at the Washington Post, complete with two or three minutes of the Guv'nor standing around awkwardly as the projector failed to project, which is sort of its primary responsibility. If Huckabee can't even figure out basic audio equipment, how can we expect him to handle the nuclear access codes? He'll probably screw up and flatten Latvia!

More than any other serious candidate, Huckabee seems to be accumulating a dangerous arsenal of humiliating video clips. He has nothing yet along the lines of George Allen's Macacca moment, but the "apology" to Pakistan after the Bhutto assassination could easily slip its way into an attack ad, and the "If I went negative, here's how" announcement could have an extended shelf life as well. Not to mention the fact that he wrote a book in which he blames necrophilia for all of society's problems, sort of.

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  • George L. Anesi is a medical student and bioethics graduate student at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 2006 with a B.S. in biological chemistry and a B.A. in chemistry. He is currently the Medicine and Bioethics Columnist for The Observer at Case Western. At the University of Chicago, George served as Editor in Chief of the Chicago Maroon and Acting President of Chicago Friends of Israel. Before beginning medical school, George served as an Analyst in Middle Eastern and International Affairs for the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Contacct George at at george.anesi@case.edu.
  • Andrew Hammond graduated from the University of Chicago in 2007 with a B.A. in political science. Andrew is a 2008 Rhodes Scholar, was named a 2006 Harry S. Truman Scholar (writing his thesis on youth policy), and was a Student Marshall for the University of Chicago. He is currently a fellow at the Center of the Study of Social Policy in Washington and has served as the Executive Director of the ACLU College Chapter. Contact Andrew at hammond@uchicago.edu.
  • Alec Brandon is a fourth-year in the College pursuing a degree in economics with a particular interest in applied microeconomics. Alec was the Secretary of the Chicago Debate Society from 2006-2007. He has worked for Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, and researched the economics of higher education at Yale Law School over the summer of 2006 with Henry Hansmann. Last summer he worked as a research assistant for Professor Robert Fogel at the University of Chicago's Center for Population Economics. He started blogging in the beginning of 2005 at his now-defunct personal blog Mr. Alec. Contact Alec at alec@uchicago.edu.
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