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The Green Comet Coming

from The Daily Mail Green-tinged Comet Swan with an 11 million-mile-long tail flies past Earth on its way to the Sun – and you don’t need a telescope to see it By RYAN MORRISON The green-tinged ball of ice and dust visits the inner part of the solar system once every 11,597 years and has a […]

VALLEY GIRL Fer Shur

from The New York Times When ‘Valley Girl’ (and Nicolas Cage) Shook Up Hollywood With no money or clout, what started as a cheap exploitation film managed to, like, totally click with a generation — and produce an unconventional superstar. By Ashley Spencer Four shots of nude breasts. That’s what the producers of “Valley Girl” demanded of their […]

Zoom ZOOM Yeah!

from The New Yorker Come On and Zoom-Zoom By David Kamp The transition from in-office meetings to at-home video conferencing has occasioned lots of memes and social-media posts about “my idea of a Zoom meeting,” usually accompanied by a grainy video or photo of haphazardly barbered nineteen-seventies children romping around in striped rugby shirts. Among older members of Generation […]

Four Horsemen Afoot

from The Express ‘Four Horsemen are ACTIVE’ Bible scholars claim Book of Revelation seals broken BIBLE scholars have sensationally claimed the end of the world could be upon us as they believe the Four Horsemen, who bring about death, war, famine and disease before the return of Jesus Christ in the holy book, have all […]

COVID Devastating Navajo Nation

from AP ‘The grief is so unbearable’: Virus takes toll on Navajo By FELICIA FONSECA and TIM SULLIVAN TUBA CITY, Arizona (AP) — The virus arrived on the reservation in early March, when late winter winds were still blowing off the mesas and temperatures at dawn were often barely above freezing.  It was carried in […]

Lord Of The Real

from The Guardian The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently from William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman by Rutger Bregman For centuries western culture has been permeated by the […]

Little Richard Gone

from Rolling Stone ‘I Majored in Mouth’: How Little Richard Invented the Rock Star With his “A-wop bop-a-loo-bop, a-lop bam boom” battle cry, the late singer-pianist embodied an irrepressible rebel spirit that inspired everyone from John Lennon to Jimi Hendrix ByROB SHEFFIELD Rebellion, outrage, scandal, hypersexual egomania, ripping it up, rocking it up, gigantic hair, […]

MILFology

from Inside Hook The Long and Decorated Literary History of the MILF From Chaucer to Mrs. Robinson, one of literature’s most subversive archetypes is also a surprisingly old one BY ELIOTT GROVER “How many of you,” I ask a roomful of half-awake 18-year-old students, “are familiar with the term MILF?” There’s a frenzied exchange of knowing […]

Happy Whales – The Pearl In The Shell

from The Guardian Silence is golden for whales as lockdown reduces ocean noise Curtailing of shipping due to coronavirus allows scientists to study effects of quieter oceans on marine wildlife by Karen McVeigh In cities, human lockdowns during the coronavirus pandemic have offered some respite to the natural world, with clear skies and the return […]

Worse Than COVID

from c|net Scientists pinpoint ‘most dangerous place in the history of planet Earth’ A paleontologist says time travelers would not survive long in this predator-packed area of Africa 100 million years ago. by Amanda Kooser Once you build your time machine, please do not set your destination for 100 million years ago in Morocco.  An […]