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Starpocalypse

from The Independent The solar system could collapse because of a passing star, scientists predict by Adam Smith Scientists have warned that if a passing star moves Neptune’s orbit by just 0.1 per cent, the resulting chaos could cause the other planets in our solar system to collide. The research, presented in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, […]

Kiwipocalypse

from Science Alert A Supervolcano in New Zealand Is Rumbling So Much It’s Shifting The Ground Above It by JESS COCKERILL The vast expanse of Lake Taupō’s sky blue waters, crowned by hazy, mountainous horizons, invokes an extreme sense of tranquility.  And yet, deep in the ground below, geological unrest is brewing, according to a new […]

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Serial Grifter

from SFGate ‘Tipster Killer’: The California serial killer who kept calling in tips for his own murders by Katie Dowd, SFGATE A mugshot for Robert Edward Maury after his arrest in 1987. Shasta County Sheriff’s Office/Handout Shirley Landruth had been working for Shasta County’s Secret Witness program for 12 years when a strange man began calling […]

Sonny Barger Gone

from Deadline Sonny Barger Dies: Hells Angels Founder, ‘Sons Of Anarchy’ Actor & Rolling Stones Nemesis Was 83 By Greg Evans Sonny Barger, the notorious founding member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, author, ex-convict, occasional Sons of Anarchy actor and one of the bikers who provided the violent, bloody security at the infamous 1969 Rolling Stones Altamont concert, died […]

BigPac-10 (or 12, or 14, not sure)

from The LA Times USC and UCLA rock college sports by leaving the Pac-12 for the Big Ten BY J. BRADY MCCOLLOUGH, BILL PLASCHKE, RYAN KARTJE, BEN BOLCH UCLA quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson scores past USC linebacker Ralen Goforth during a game on Nov. 20. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) It may be hard to imagine — USC cardinal and […]

Mr. Rogers’ Rides

from The Drive Parked in Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood: What Fred Rogers Taught Us About Cars Though rarely center stage, automobiles played a quiet but crucial role on the iconic children’s TV show. BY JOE LIGO Despite growing up in a wealthy family and being taken to school by the family driver in a Cadillac, Fred […]

Queen Bubbles

from The New Yorker The Gospel According to Mavis Staples A legendary singer on faith, loss, and a family legacy. By David Remnick Mavis Staples has been a gospel singer longer than Elizabeth II has worn the crown. During concerts, sometimes, she might take a seat and rest while someone in her band bangs out a […]

No way! I didn’t know there was a ‘porn trilogy for Nintendos’.

from Vanity Fair Jason Brassard Spent His Lifetime Collecting the Rarest Video Games. Until the Heist. The porn trilogy for Nintendos. Atari games from the 1980s. Pristine nostalgia, potentially worth millions, gone in a night.  BY JUSTIN HECKERT He tries his best to forget about the safe. But when he has a few free minutes and is cleaning the pins […]

Five Planets In A Row

from The Jerusalem Post Five planets align perfectly, visible until end of June Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will be visible every morning until the end of June in an alignment not seen since 1864. By ARIELLA MARSDEN Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn have lined up in a rare alignment that won’t occur again […]