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Moby Yoga

from Educate Inspire Change Moby Has Just Released Four Hours Worth Of Free Music Designed For Yoga And Meditation Moby (Richard Melville Hall), is an American DJ, singer, songwriter, musician, photographer and animal rights activist. He is well known for his electronic music, veganism, and support of animal rights. Recently on his website he released […]

Andy’s Death Re-visited

from The New York Times Andy Warhol’s Death: Not So Simple, After All By BLAKE GOPNIK Andy Warhol, in 1987. Credit: Associated Press  “Pop Icon Andy Warhol Dies After Routine Surgery” ran the headline in The Houston Chronicle. Time magazine questioned how “the country’s most famous pop artist dies in a prestigious big-city hospital after a rather routine gallbladder operation.” […]

RELATIONSHIP STATUS Gets Two More Seasons

from Variety Milo Ventimiglia’s ‘Relationship Status’ Gets Two More Seasons on Verizon’s Go90 (EXCLUSIVE) COURTESY OF STYLEHAUL “Relationship Status,” the millennial social-media drama starring and executive produced by Milo Ventimiglia, is returning for two more seasons on Verizon’s Go90 mobile video service. The show was created by Céline Geiger (“Vampire Diaries,” “The Lying Game”). It’s executive produced by Ventimiglia — […]

Noah California

from The San Francisco Chronicle Is California overdue for biblical, catastrophic flooding? History says it could be By Katie Dowd Sacramento underwater due to floods in an 1862 rendering that ran in local papers. Californians are always talking about the coming Big One, but what if the big one is a flood, not an earthquake? With […]

Apocalypse at Oroville

from The Sacramento Bee Oroville Dam’s untested emergency spillway activated. Flows to continue ‘40 to 56 hours’ BY DALE KASLER Water began pouring over the emergency spillway at Oroville Dam early Saturday for the first time in its 48-year history. State officials continued to say they don’t expect the situation to result in flooding in […]

Little Shaq to SPROUT

from Deadline Sprout Greenlights New Series ‘Remy And Boo’; Renews ‘Floogals’ & ‘Nina’s World’; Sets Development Slate by Denise Petski Sprout, NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment’s 24-hour preschool network, is expanding its original programming slate with the greenlight of new series Remy and Boo created by Industrial Brothers’ Matt Fernandes and produced by Industrial Brothers and Boat Rocker Studios. The network […]

They’re Beginning To Wander

from CBS News Army drone missing from Arizona found in Colorado A drone like the one that disappeared is seen in this image provided by the U.S. Army / U.S. ARMY/CBS DENVER DENVER — An Army drone that disappeared on a training flight in southern Arizona has been found about 600 miles away in Colorado, and […]

The Bombing Of The L.A. Times

from KCET Infernal Machines: The Bombing of the Los Angeles Times and L.A.’s First ‘Crime of the Century’ by Hadley Meares Bombed-out building of the Los Angeles Times at First Street and Broadway, 1910 | Security Pacific National Bank Collection, Los Angeles Public Library It never fails to astound me. The tales we remember collectively. And […]

2017 BS32

from The Sun NOT SO FAR AWAY – Asteroid 2017 BS32 will zoom past Earth TONIGHT in fourth close shave of the year Scientists spotted space rock from ‘potentially hazardous’ Aten asteroid group on Monday BY MARGI MURPHY PA.PRESS ASSOCIATION SCIENTISTS have just spotted an asteroid which will brush past Earth this evening. Asteroid 2017 BS32 will fly past […]

Spin

from WIRED THE MIND-BENDING PHYSICS OF A TENNIS BALL’S SPIN by NICK STOCKTON GETTY IMAGES TENNIS HAS BEEN called the game of inches, of kings, of poets, of love, of errors, of endurance, of a lifetime. But those are mostly metaphors. Really, tennis is the game of spin. Watch Novak Djokovic send arcing yellow streaks from beyond […]