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Penguins Might Not Have Always Worn Tuxedos, UT Paleontologist Finds

September 30, 2010 3:00 pm | no comments

About 36 million years ago, penguins may have had a whole different color scheme. A fossil discovered in Peru reveals the first evidence that the birds long associated...

Soccer Surprises No. 10 BYU For Second-Straight Win Over A Ranked Opponent

September 21, 2010 10:21 am | 1 comment

Look out, Big 12, Texas Soccer is heating up. Yesterday, the Horns pounced on the BYU Cougars with a 1-0 win in rainy conditions at Mike A. Myers Stadium. It was...

New Lady Bird Johnson Photos Released

September 20, 2010 4:25 pm | no comments

Hundreds of never-before-seen photos of Lady Bird Johnson have been released to the public and are now available on the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center website. The...

Why The Wall Street Journal Rankings Are Bogus [A Takedown]

September 16, 2010 4:09 pm | 8 comments

This week, the venerable Wall Street Journal tried its hand at ranking undergraduate schools, a slippery and notoriously contentious endeavor, and returned some...

Put Hook ‘Em’s Head On Your Body [An Application]

September 15, 2010 3:32 pm | no comments

The clever folks over at ESPN have come up with a new Facebook app for Photoshopping a school mascot onto your profile pic. Genius! The new app is called the Lee...

Spots Still Open For Special Texas Exes Golf Tournament

September 15, 2010 1:42 pm | no comments

Hey, golfers. This year’s Texas Exes Golf Tournament benefiting the UT Heritage Society is not filled up yet. Want to play? You should! For the first time,...

Fall Freshman Class First In UT History Without White Majority

September 14, 2010 3:11 pm | 1 comment

For the first time in The University of Texas’ 127-year history, fewer than half of the students in the entering freshman class are white. A preliminary report...

Texas Politics Project Director Discerns Mood Of The Electorate

September 14, 2010 2:13 pm | 1 comment

Few phenomena attract as much attention and yet baffle so many prognosticators as the will of the body politic. What do voters care about and why? These questions...

Finding The Best Picture Of The UT Tower Ever [A Facebook Success Story]

September 13, 2010 1:47 pm | 4 comments

It’s not every day that a jaw-dropping picture of the Tower simply falls into your lap. For me, it happened May 25, 2010. There I was, scoping my Facebook...

Flying Longhorns Escape Texas Heat With Trip To Scotland

September 10, 2010 4:28 pm | no comments

There are a lot of reasons to travel with the Flying Longhorns: we stay in nice hotels, we cut to the front of lines, and we visit historic and interesting places...