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They’re Right Next Door

from The Mirror Up to 36 ‘intelligent alien races’ could be living in our galaxy, scientists say Scientists from the University of Nottingham have calculated that there could be more than 30 active communicating intelligent civilisations in the Milky Way By Mark Waghorn & Shivali Best We are not alone – with 36 intelligent alien […]

Kari Gunter-Seymour

from WYSO 91.3 Meet Ohio’s New Poet Laureate: Kari Gunter-Seymour  By JASON REYNOLDS Governor Mike DeWine has picked Kari Gunter-Seymour to be Ohio’s new poet laureate. In the middle of a pandemic and nationwide protests, Kari Gunter-Seymour says poetry is more important than ever. “When we write our truths, we bring things to light and create […]

Six Million Dollar Man Soon

from The Daily Star Elon Musk ‘a year away from creating Six Million Dollar Man through implanted chips’ Billionaire Elon Musk says the chips, which will be implanted in human brains, will allow paralysed people to walk again, similar to 1970s cult TV show The Six Million Dollar Man, starring Lee Majors By Paul Donnelley […]

Great East Japan Earthquake

Remembering The Tibetan Freedom Concert

from SPIN Quarantine Classic Concerts: Tibetan Freedom Concert This was peak ’90s  by Sean Moltisanti Rock ‘n roll and politics have a long, intertwined history — and it’s hard to find a better example than the Tibetan Freedom Concert.  Beginning in 1996 at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, the festival brought together many of the biggest […]

Inside Party Girls

from The New York Post Inside the shady world of promoters who recruit ‘hot girls’ for parties By Raquel Laneri For years, Ashley Mears would get text messages from Thibault,* a Manhattan club promoter she met when she was a model in the early 2000s. “He would always text the same thing, like, ‘Oh baby, sushi […]

BRIGHT SHINY MORNING for Harry and Meghan

from The Financial Times Letter: A book on the City of Angels fit for a prince From Lyndon Heal, Madrid, Spain While I wouldn’t challenge Janan Ganesh’s assertion (FT Weekend, April 25) that ‘the seminal book about 20th century LA by a London professor (Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies, by Reyner Banham), might […]

Banksy’s Superhero Nurse

from artnet Banksy Just Made a Surprisingly Earnest Painting of a Superhero Nurse and Donated It to a British Hospital as a Morale Booster The work will remain on view at the Southampton General Hospital until this fall, when it will go to auction. by Caroline Goldstein Banksy has donated a painting to England’s Southampton General […]

Corona Quads

from CBS Dallas Born Into A Pandemic: Mother, Father Bring Identical Quadruplets Home A North Texas mother and father are celebrating a rare blessing, growing their family by four during the coronavirus pandemic. Hudson, Harrison, Henry and Hardy were born at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas on March 15, just one day before the mandatory […]