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Ass-smoke

from Gizmodo “Blowing Smoke Up Your Ass” Used to Be Literal by Terynn Boulton When someone is “blowing smoke up your arse” today, it is a figure of speech that means that one person is complimenting another, insincerely most of the time, in order to inflate the ego of the individual being flattered. Back in the […]

James Cameron – Disturbing

from The Village Voice “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” Is Still a Deeply Upsetting Blockbuster “It’s in your nature to destroy yourselves” by BILGE EBIRI Say what you will about James Cameron, but the man commits. Stories of the director’s perfectionism, his control-freak mania, and his sheer drive are legion, but I’m talking about something more fundamental […]

Reggae Healing

from The Saudi Gazette Reggae helps heal mental wounds of torture for migrants in Italy Ibrahim Jalloh of Sierra Leone sings during a performance of the Medu Music Band in Rome, Italy. – Reuters ROME – In a tiny makeshift rehearsal studio in a residential neighborhood of Rome, Nigerian asylum seeker Sylvester Ezeala let slip […]

The Village Voice Gone

from The Hollywood Reporter End of an Era: Village Voice Will No Longer Be in Print by Jeremy Barr The Village Voice’s Aug. 16-22, 2017 issue The alt-weekly changed ownership in 2015. Peter Barbey, who purchased The Village Voice in 2015, has decided to no longer produce a print edition of the alt-weekly. The publication, […]

Don’t Look At The Fireball

from TIME How to Watch the Solar Eclipse Like a 1960s School Kid by Eliza Berman Caption from LIFE. Fifth-graders at the Emerson School in Maywood, Ill. line up with backs to the sun and their eclipse / Francis Miller—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images If you are one of the lucky Americans in position to see […]

She Got Legs

from The Onion ZZ Top Reveals Meaning Behind Classic Song ‘Legs’ HOUSTON—More than three decades after the song was a chart-topping smash and became an instant classic-rock staple, ZZ Top finally revealed to fans Tuesday the meaning behind its iconic hit “Legs.” “People have been coming up with all these crazy interpretations for 30 years, […]

Mosaic Studio

from The Observer  1,200-Year-Old Mosaic Studio Reveals a ‘Snapshot’ of Ancient Construction Methods By Alanna Martinez Photogrammetric composite image of the ‘House of the Tessarae’, trench P. The numbers relate to different archaeological features. © The Danish-German Jerash Northwest Quarter Project The eruption of Mount Vesuvius at Pompeii in 79 A.D. isn’t the only example […]

Another one…

from labroots Huge Asteroid to Pass Closely to Earth on September 1st, 2017 BY: Anthony Bouchard An artist’s impression of a large asteroid passing by the Earth. Image Credit: Marcelo6366/Pixabay Don’t panic, but a massive asteroid more than 2.7 miles across is about to get up-close and personal with the Earth. While it sounds alarming when […]

Bots Win Again

from CNN A bot just defeated one of the world’s best video gamers by Jackie Wattles An artificial intelligence program just annihilated its human competition at a world championship video game contest. The AI win stunned the gaming community, because bots are generally considered inferior to expert human players. This one from Open AI — […]