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Stay gold, Ponyboy

from The New York Times The Enduring Spell of ‘The Outsiders’ S. E. Hinton’s 1967 coming-of-age novel credited teenagers with a rich interior life. Here, a tribute to the book that created young adult fiction as we know it today. By Lena Dunham  IT WAS FRESHMAN year of college and I fancied myself someone, […]

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Serve To Live Longer

from The New York Times The Best Sport for a Longer Life? Try Tennis People who played tennis, badminton or soccer tended to live longer than those who cycled, swam or jogged. By Gretchen Reynolds Playing tennis and other sports that are social might add years to your life, according to a new epidemiological study […]

Mini Space Elevator, Cool

from Phys.org Going up! Japan to test mini ‘space elevator’ A Japanese team working to develop a “space elevator” will conduct a first trial this month, blasting off a miniature version on satellites to test the technology. The test equipment, produced by researchers at Shizuoka University, will hitch a ride on an H-2B rocket being […]

200 Years of Knowledge Up In Flames

from BBC Brazil museum fire: Funding cuts blamed as icon is gutted  Officials in Brazil have blamed lack of funding for a huge fire that has ravaged the country’s National Museum. One of the largest anthropology and natural history collections in the Americas was almost totally destroyed in Sunday’s fire in Rio de Janeiro. […]

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The World’s First Movie Poster

from artnet Sotheby’s Is Selling the World’s First Movie Poster, Which Promoted a Premiere Only 30 People Attended The poster is an important piece of cinematic history. by Sarah Cascone Henri Brispot, Cinématographe Lumière (1896). This poster was created for the Lumière Brothers on the occasion of the world’s first-ever public film screening. It is […]

Homer’s Revenge

from Real Clear Life Woman May Have Lost NASA Internship After Insulting Famed Engineer Homer Hickam Hickam told the young girl to watch her language on Twitter. A woman may have lost her NASA internship following a profanity-laced back-and-forth with a user on Twitter, who is none other than the famed former NASA engineer and […]

New Underground Railroad

from The New Yorker No One Is Safer. No One Is Served. An immigrant family hides from Donald Trump in a Connecticut church. By Dave Eggers The legendary Chicago oral historian and moral force Studs Terkel once said, “There is a decency in the American people and a native intelligence—providing they have the facts, providing […]

Cetacean Frustration

from The Telegraph Sexually frustrated dolphin named Zafar terrorises tourists on French beach by Rory Mulholland, Paris The dolphin rubs himself up against kayaks and canoes A seaside village in Brittany has banned swimming on its beach because a dolphin in heat has been scaring tourists and locals by approaching them and trying to rub […]