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College Basketball Grab Bag: Ben Simmons Is Awesome, And So Is Purdue's Frontcourt
Our weekly look at college basketball's weird and wonderful includes LSU's superfrosh, The Great Wall of Purdue, the joys of the Big Ten-ACC Challenge and Monmouth's world-beating bench.
Snow Football is Officially Here
It looks like we're going to have the first snow game of the season.
Cincinnati Buzzer-Beater Forces Overtime
Troy Caupain sent Cincinnati-Purdue to overtime on a buzzer-beating layup.
Enduring the Aftershock of OxyContin in Canada
Purdue Pharma had successfully engineered a slanted, disingenuous marketing campaign clearly designed to sell more OxyContin, and passed it off as a mandatory educational lecture at a major university. Nearly seven thousand students received this...
How Big Pharma Created a Generation of Oxyconteens in the US
Now that Purdue Pharma, the creator of OxyContin, is set to begin testing the effects of OC on children—an effort to procure a six-month patent extension for their drug—I wanted to look back on Big Pharma hooking a generation of Americans on legal...
Bass-Powered Medical Sensor Prescribes Rap for Incontinence
We've all used music as therapy before, but what if your health depended on, say, the booty-bouncing thumps of Miami Bass? New research from Purdue University would require just that. Purdue researchers have developed an implantable medical sensor that...