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May 1, 2015
Biggest Book Ever!
from Paste Magazine Author Aims to Set New Guinness World Record with World’s Largest Published Novel By Jennifer Champagne Yahaya Baruwa, 27-year-old best-selling Canadian author, aims to do more than just release another commercial success, but also release the world’s largest published novel. Struggles of a Dreamer: The Battle Between a Dreamer and Tradition will measure 8 ft. […]
April 20, 2015
A Heartbreaking Read
from The Washington Post My daughter, who lost her battle with mental illness, is still the bravest person I know By Doris A. Fuller The author with daughter Natalie in 2004, soon after publication of their book “Promise You Won’t Freak Out.” (Courtesy of Doris Fuller ) I lost my darling daughter Natalie to mental […]
April 19, 2015
April 18, 2015
Go Go, Amoeba, Go!
from CNN Still spinnin’: America’s classic record stores By Brandon Griggs (CNN)Like phone booths and typewriters, record stores are a vanishing breed — another victim of the digital age. Camelot Music. Virgin Megastores. Wherehouse Music. Tower Records. All of them gone. Corporate America has largely abandoned brick-and-mortar music retailing to a scattering of independent stores, many […]
April 17, 2015
April 16, 2015
“It wasn’t me, Officer, I’m tellin’ ya! Like I said, I shot the armadillo – and then it was the armadillo what shot that bitch mother-in-law of mine.”
from The New York Daily News Georgia man shoots armadillo, bullet bounces off critter’s shell, hits shooter’s mother-in-law inside mobile home 100 yards away: Police (VIDEO) BY LEE MORAN JCRADER/GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO Armored and dangerous! A Georgia man shot his mother-in-law in a freak accident after a bullet he fired at an armadillo ricocheted off the creature’s […]
April 15, 2015
ENDGAME: “As intriguing as it is ambitious”
from The San Jose Mercury News With Endgame: Proving Ground, Google’s Niantic Labs aims to improve on Ingress formula by Gieson Cacho Google’s Niantic Labs specializes in video games that revolve around the real world. It’s a heady space that mixes elements of massively multiplayer online experiences and augmented reality games. Ingress was the first example. It was […]
April 14, 2015
Günter Grass Gone
from The New Yorker The Greatness of Günter Grass BY SALMAN RUSHDIE CREDITPHOTOGRAPH BY RENE BURRI / MAGNUM In 1982, when I was in Hamburg for the publication of the German translation of “Midnight’s Children,” I was asked by my publishers if I would like to meet Günter Grass. Well, obviously I wanted to, and so I was driven out […]
April 13, 2015
Honey, those spots are getting bigger.
from NATURE Mystery of Ceres’ bright spots grows Data from NASA mission suggest varied origins for tantalizing gleams on dwarf planet’s surface. by Alexandra Witze NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA The surface of the dwarf planet Ceres (shown here) has fewer large craters than researchers expected. Not all of the puzzling bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres are […]
March 31, 2015
Is it pulsars? A spy satellite? Or an alien message?
from New Scientist Is this ET? Mystery of strange radio bursts from space by Sarah Scoles Mysterious radio wave flashes from far outside the galaxy are proving tough for astronomers to explain. Is it pulsars? A spy satellite? Or an alien message? BURSTS of radio waves flashing across the sky seem to follow a mathematical pattern. […]
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