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“[T]he human race has been living on borrowed time.”

from The New Yorker The Age of Asteroids BY JONATHAN BLITZER A view of the asteroid Lutetia from the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft. CREDITIMAGE FROM THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY Brian May, the longtime guitarist of the rock band Queen, is also an astrophysicist. He started his career, in 1970, as a Ph.D. student at Imperial College, […]

Netflix Does Nina

from Paste Magazine Netflix is Producing an Original Nina Simone Documentary By Christine Campbell Netflix has taken on a Liz Garbus documentary detailing the life of iconic songstress and civil rights activist, Nina Simone. The project, to be called What Happened, Miss Simone?, marks the streaming service’s first venture into a documentary at such an early stage […]

Cardiac Pulmonary Remonkeytation

from The AP MONKEY GIVES FIRST AID TO ELECTROCUTED FRIEND NEW DELHI (AP) — Onlookers at a train station in northern India watched in awe as a monkey came to the rescue of an injured friend – resuscitating another monkey that had been electrocuted and knocked unconscious. The injured monkey had fallen between the tracks, […]

God Is Data

from The Wall Street Journal Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God The odds of life existing on another planet grow ever longer. Intelligent design, anyone? By ERIC METAXAS In 1966 Time magazine ran a cover story asking: Is God Dead? Many have accepted the cultural narrative that he’s obsolete—that as science progresses, there is […]

Memoir-Novels

from The New York Times What Accounts for Our Current — or Recurrent — Fascination With Memoir-Novels? Each week in Bookends, two writers take on questions about the world of books. This week, Leslie Jamison and Daniel Mendelsohn discuss our interest in narratives that blur the line between the real and the fabricated. By Leslie […]

Joe Cocker Gone

from Fox News Joe Cocker dead at 70 Joe Cocker, the singer and songwriter whose hits included “You Are So Beautiful” and “Up Where We Belong,” has died of lung cancer, his agent, Barrie Marshall, confirmed to FOX411. Cocker was 70 years old. “Joe Cocker is a legendary artist of rock and blues history and […]

ENDGAME at New Canaan Library – January 7

from Hamlet Hub James Frey Presents Endgame: The Calling at New Canaan Library ENDGAME: THE CALLING by James Frey & Nils Johnson-Shelton is an engrossing novel at the core of a groundbreaking immersive, multi-platform reading experience. The ENDGAME trilogy follows twelve teens as catastrophic events lead them on a global quest in search of three ancient […]

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Dead’s Rock Scully Gone

from The New York Times Rock Scully, Grateful Dead’s Manager Who Put the Band on Records, Dies at 73 By DOUGLAS MARTIN Rock Scully, front left, in a Grateful Dead “family portrait” in San Francisco in 1966, soon after he became manager, in front of 710a Ashbury Street, the band’s communal home. CreditHerb Greene  Rock Scully learned […]

No mas rimjob, no mas.

from Gawker Radio Station Apologizes for Letting a DJ Get a Rimjob on the Air by Jay Hathaway Chilean radio station Top 40 held a contest earlier this week, offering tickets to the giant EDM festival Mysteryland, and one lucky winner got hers by giving a DJ a rimjob live on air (here I’m employing an extremely loose […]