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from Vulture Our ‘Lost’ Weekend With Van Halen A couple college dudes won an MTV contest to tour with Van Halen. Then all hell broke loose. By Chris Lee On an overcast morning in the spring of 1984, Kurt Jefferis and Tom Winnick, a couple of college-age bros of no particular renown, departed the world of normalcy […]

The Oracle Returned

from The New Yorker Wikipedia, “Jeopardy!,” and the Fate of the Fact In the Internet age, it can seem as if there’s no reason to remember anything. But information doesn’t always amount to knowledge. By Louis Menand Is it still cool to memorize a lot of stuff? Is there even a reason to memorize anything? Having […]

The Largest Astronomy Book In The World

from National Geographic Why the Nasca lines are among Peru’s greatest mysteries The lines drawn in geometric patterns and distinct animal shapes across the Peruvian desert have inspired many theories over the years. Here’s what we know—and what remains to be seen. BY JASON GOLOMB AS A PLANE soars over the high desert of southern Peru, the […]

Tower Records Reborn

from Deadline Iconic Tower Records Returns As Website Selling Vinyl, Cassettes, CDs By Bruce Haring One of the most iconic retailers in entertainment has returned in a new incarnation. Tower Records, which closed its stores 14 years ago and declared bankruptcy, today announced it has come back as an online service. The new Tower Records has online events, the […]

Banksyangelo

from The Wall Street Journal Was Michelangelo a Renaissance Banksy?  Scholars consider whether the master was behind a wall carving; ‘Who would ever say it is by my hand?’ By Kelly Crow Tour guides in Florence, Italy, have long claimed that the small outline of a curly-haired man carved into the stone wall of the city’s […]

Fiddy Roth Frey

from Deadline Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson Partners With Eli Roth, 3BlackDot For Three-Pic Deal By Greg Evans Producer and recording artist Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is partnering with Eli Roth and entertainment studio 3BlackDot for a three-picture feature film deal. The deal expands Power player Jackson’s G-Unit Film & Television in the horror film space. Jackson’s G-Unit will team with the Arts […]

Great Tits Gone

from The New York Post Great tits could be wiped out by climate change in near future By Ben Cost We mean the birds, dirtbags. The unfortunately named great tit has joined a long list of species that could soon disappear due to Earth’s rapidly warming climate. “If the changes happen too fast, species can become extinct,” said […]

All Gold Stars

from Astronomy Does all the gold in the universe come from stars? Humanity’s fascination with this precious metal is increased by knowing it comes from the stars. By Raymond Shubinski In a remote galaxy, two neutron stars circled one another in a ballet of ultimate destruction and inevitable creation. Both objects were the remnants of massive stars, […]

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from The Atlantic The Next Decade Could Be Even Worse A historian believes he has discovered iron laws that predict the rise and fall of societies. He has bad news. Story by Graeme Wood Peter Turchin, one of the world’s experts on pine beetles and possibly also on human beings, met me reluctantly this summer on […]