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When Discussing Racism Could Be Funny

from NBC Saturday Night Live White Like Me (by Eddie Murphy) [ click to view at NBC ]

Sharon Jones Gone

from NPR A Queen Among Kings Sharon Jones’ Soul Was Surpassed Only By Her Spirit by OLIVER WANG The first time I ever saw Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings perform was circa 2002 at the Elbo Room, a tiny venue in San Francisco’s Mission District. If you’ve ever been there, you know the Elbo Room doesn’t […]

Tennis Is For Girls

Enigmatic Fast Radio Bursts

from New Scientist Mystery cosmic radio blasts come with side of gamma rays By Leah Crane NASA BLASTS of radio waves from space may deliver a much bigger wallop than expected. For the first time, we have seen one of these enigmatic fast radio bursts occurring together with a spurt of gamma rays, meaning their joint source may […]

Secrets of Blackstar

from SPIN David Bowie’s Graphic Designer Says Blackstar Records Hold More Secrets by Anna Gaca CREDIT: Screenshot via DavidBowieVEVO on YouTube In May, months after David Bowie released his final album ★ (Blackstar) and died unexpectedly, fans discovered a charming surprise: If you expose the record’s gatefold sleeve to light, it reveals an image of a galaxy. In an interview with BBC Radio 6 today, the record’s graphic […]

$1 Million Worth of Hot Wheels

from Inside Hook SO THAT’S WHAT A $1 MILLION HOT WHEELS COLLECTION LOOKS LIKE Got a Pink VW Bus in the attic? Call your banker. BY EVAN BLEIER From Michael Jordan rookie cards to first-run issues of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, we’ve all heard horror stories of parents tossing out valuable collectibles during impromptu attic cleanses. For […]

Slushee Discovered On Pluto

from Yahoo! News / Reuters Underground ocean found on Pluto, likely slushy with ice By Irene Klotz NASA/Handout via REUTERS HOUSTON (Reuters) – Scientists have found evidence that tiny, distant Pluto harbors a hidden ocean beneath the frozen surface of its heart-shaped central plain containing as much water as all of Earth’s seas. The finding, […]

Monkey Tools

from The Telegraph Monkeys create stone tools forcing scientists to rethink human evolution By Sarah Knapton, science editor Capuchin stone on stone percussion: an active hammerstone fragmenting during use CREDIT: M.HASLAM The path of human evolution may need to be rewritten after archaeologists discovered that monkeys also produce ‘tool-like flakes’ that were thought to be uniquely man-made.In a discovery that calls […]

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Black Metal

from VICE Photos That Perfectly Capture the Brutality of Extreme Norwegian Music By Oliver Lunn, Photos: Jonas Bendiksen Aleksander Ilievski from Imagination and Empty. Norway, 2016. (Copyright: Jonas Bendiksen / Magnum Photos) The most Norwegian thing ever is black metal. Just hearing someone say “Norway” conjures up the image of a man-troll screaming in a dark […]