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Death of The Cowboy

from Popular Mechanics Meet SwagBot: The Four-Wheeled Robot Cowboy By David Grossman SwagBot is the world’s first robot cowboy, built to roam the rugged Australian terrain. While it will be doing some cowboy work, make no mistake: SwagBot is less like John Wayne and maybe a little more like a hyper-competent herding dog. It can corral […]

12-Minutes Of Total Horror

from RealClear Life History of the Horror Genre in 12 Minutes [ click to view at RealClear Life ]

Selfie Suicide

from Rolling Stone Death by Selfie: 11 Disturbing Stories of Social Media Pics Gone Wrong Fatal poses with walruses, bulls and even a live grenade By Bryn Lovitt The never-ending pursuit of the ultimate shot for social media sharing has reached a startling new height: 8,000 feet above sea level. This month, a grown man fell […]

NASA Lies

from The Mirror NASA shuts down live International Space Station feed as ‘mysterious UFO enters Earth’s atmosphere’ The incident caused speculation online – and is not the first time NASA have been accused of tampering with the feed BY ELLE GRIFFITHS UFO spotters have raised the alarm after the International Space Station live feed cut out […]

Happy 4th!

from R. Hubbard via FB [ view on Facebook ]

Fine Art Gothic

from The Hollywood Reporter How Classic Paintings Influence ‘American Gothic’ by Sarah Huggins   Christos Kalohoridis/CBS American Gothic is more than meets the eye. The new CBS drama centers on a prominent Boston family and their secrets, and to hear showrunner Corinne Brinkerhoff tell it, features a nod to classical pieces of art in each episode. The artistic […]

The String Unravels

from NPR Has Physics Gotten Something Really Important Really Wrong? by ADAM FRANK Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images Sometimes the most important step one can take in science is back. When the path towards progress in a field becomes muddied, the best response may be to step away from all the technical specifics that make up day-to-day practice […]

From Toronto to Boston

from CBS Boston How ‘American Gothic’ Crew Transformed Toronto Into Boston By Liam Martin Home from “American Gothic” (CBS) TORONTO (CBS) — If the house and the neighborhood at the center of the new CBS thriller “American Gothic” looks like they could be found on Chestnut Hill, that’s by design. “Well, that’s encouraging to hear,” Tim […]

CIRKLON3 (17 Years)

Jaws At Linda Mar

from KRON Great White Shark spotted off Pacifica beach By Aaron Pero PACIFICA (KRON) — As temperatures begin to climb and people expected to hit the coast this weekend to beat the heat, police are warning beachgoers about a possible shark roaming in the waters off Pacifica. According to police, a white shark was spotted at […]