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"Bowie’s in space, for real"

Mon, 13 May 2013 11:10:13 -0400

“Bowie’s in space, for real”

- David Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ Oddly Covered by an Astronaut, in Space

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Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:30:48 -0500

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Fri, 11 Jan 2013 13:45:36 -0500

U.S. and Israel Look to Limit Impact of U.N. Vote on Palestinian Authority

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:09:53 -0500

U.S. and Israel Look to Limit Impact of U.N. Vote on Palestinian Authority:

After failing to head off a vote in the United Nations on Thursday that would upgrade the Palestinian Authority’s status, the United States and Israel are looking ahead to how they can contain the damage from the approval.

travelchannel: Season 2 of The Layover with Anthony Bourdain...

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 01:43:08 -0400

travelchannel:

Season 2 of The Layover with Anthony Bourdain premieres Monday, November 19 at 9|8c. Here’s a little taste of what’s to come.. Dublin, Sao Paolo, Chicago, Philly, Paris, and more.

newyorker: Amy Davidson on the Romney fundraising video: “The...

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:17:09 -0400

newyorker:

Amy Davidson on the Romney fundraising video: “The least of the problems with what Romney said is that he seems to be utterly delusional.”

Watch the video above, and click-through to read Davidson on Romney’s 47% problem: http://nyr.kr/S278Eb

commie-pinko-liberal: Neil deGrasse Tyson on how...

Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:41:21 -0400

commie-pinko-liberal:

Neil deGrasse Tyson on how unrepresentative our representatives are

New Jersey city fires entire police force — RT

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:07:14 -0400

New Jersey city fires entire police force — RT:

Union breaking is never a good thing.

vicemag: Seeing as “having nothing to skate” is the main...

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:17:45 -0400

vicemag:

Seeing as “having nothing to skate” is the main requirement for skate spots in NYC, it’s only natural that the Astor Place Cube been a skater hangout for the last 20+ years.

nprmusic: Hear “Duquesne Whistle,” the first song from Bob...

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:05:35 -0400

nprmusic:

Hear “Duquesne Whistle,” the first song from Bob Dylan’s 35th studio album, Tempest.

image26 on Flickr.

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 23:05:16 -0400

image26 on Flickr.

latimes: Is CNN looking for its own game change? With the...

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 17:37:03 -0400

latimes:

Is CNN looking for its own game change? With the Republican and Democratic national conventions approaching, the news network is in a quandary about the direction it needs to take to regain its declining viewership, which some say might involve dropping its refusal to “take sides” in the political debate.

Photo credit: E. M. Pio Roda / CNN

Watching ‘Mad Men’ With My Mother

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:11:33 -0400

Watching ‘Mad Men’ With My Mother:

A great new way to look at the AMC series Mad Men. To a woman who came of age in the early 60s, the stylish nostalgia of “Mad Men” isn’t glamorous; it’s painful.

ArtsBeat: How ‘Mad Men’ Landed The Beatles: All You Need Is Love (and $250,000)

Tue, 08 May 2012 02:12:20 -0400

ArtsBeat: How ‘Mad Men’ Landed The Beatles: All You Need Is Love (and $250,000):

The use of “Tomorrow Never Knows” in Sunday’s episode of “Mad Men” was a rare instance in which a song written and recorded by the Beatles has been licensed for a television series, following several years of effort by the show’s creator, Matthew Weiner.

Gaddafi put up 50M euro for Sarkozy’s presidential bid – report — RT

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 15:27:17 -0400

Gaddafi put up 50M euro for Sarkozy’s presidential bid – report — RT

fotojournalismus: The burnt body of a boy killed during an air...

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:42:12 -0400

fotojournalismus:

The burnt body of a boy killed during an air strike by the Sudanese air force is covered with sheets in a market in Rubkona near Bentiu April 23, 2012. Sudanese warplanes carried out air strikes on South Sudan on Monday, killing three people near the southern oil town of Bentiu, residents and military officials said, three days after South Sudan pulled out of a disputed oil field.

[Credit : Goran Tomasevic/Reuters]

fotojournalismus: Taxis line the Strasse des 17. Juni...

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:30:43 -0400

fotojournalismus:

Taxis line the Strasse des 17. Juni thoroughfare in central Berlin during a strike by taxi drivers against new tariffs for journeys to and from Berlin’s new international airport, April 23, 2012. In background is the Siegessaeule (victory column).

[Credit : Thomas Peter/Reuters]

Taking the Waste Out of Wastewater An interesting look into how...

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:21:16 -0400

Taking the Waste Out of Wastewater

An interesting look into how recycled water is a necessity for sustaining our lifeline, but people’s psychological influences won’t let them accept sewer water as becoming acceptable to drink.

'Google goggles' offer vision of future - Americas - Al Jazeera English

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 13:20:16 -0400

'Google goggles' offer vision of future - Americas - Al Jazeera English:

This doesn’t seem completely necessary, but I am not surprised at all that Google would come up with something like this.

latimes: 11 state parks temporarily out of the woods: Private...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:30:06 -0400

latimes:

11 state parks temporarily out of the woods: Private donors, foundations and other entities have come forward to help keep 11 of 70 parks threatened with closure open for one to three years, McGrath State Beach among them.

Photo: Canoeists paddle near tufa formations on Mono Lake. The Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve will remain open under an agreement with the nonprofit Bodie Foundation, which plans to start charging parking fees at the reserve. Credit: Don Kelsen / Los Angeles Times