Epic is overused. Heavily, heavily overused. The internet has corrupted a perfectly good word, and now it’s used almost as badly as lol. Anything that’s vaguely humorous gets slapped with the label without any appreciation for what it truly is. You know what’s epic? Hundreds of armed and trained men, slaughtering each other ruthlessly on [...]
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Sept. 10, 1941: Stephen Jay Gould Born
September 10th, 2010 |
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1941: Stephen Jay Gould, who will become a famous evolutionary theorist and popular science writer, is born in New York City.
As a 5-year-old, Gould became fascinated by paleontology during a visit to the American Museum of Natural History with his father. “I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever [...]
New marine discoveries: Secrets from the deep
August 5th, 2010 |
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New discoveries from the deep
A remarkable area of marine diversity has been discovered in the cold depths of the ocean in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. A joint American and Indonesian expedition is using a remotely operated vehicle, called Little Hercules, at depths of 3,700m (2.3 miles) to explore an area in the region of the Sangihe and Talaud islands. Tim Shank, the expedition’s lead scientist from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, says the diversity of large animas found rivals anything in similar habitats anywhere in the world. The team have spotted 30-40 new species just in the past week of diving. Little Hercules is cruising over hydrothermal springs, abyssal muds and the rocky tops of seamounts—a kind of underwater mountain. Distinctive corals live down here, and with them a specialised fauna. Two chirostylid crabs (pictured above) spend their adult lives only in one particular antipatharian black coral. Sea stars, crabs, shrimp and worms live in the limbs of these corals as birds and insects do in the branches of trees in a rainforest. The team are also gathering intriguing evidence for the existence of a deep ocean “Wallace Line”. This is an area named after Alfred Wallace, who in the 19th century noted that the land-based fauna on either side of this line was distinctly different. More information can be found here.
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Tracking the intervention
June 11th, 2010 |
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Road-tripping into the prescribed areas of Australia’s Northern Territory
Day one | Day two
SPRAWLING through dusty red desert, the ochre-coloured hills of the Larapinta Trail might have suited John Ford as a backdrop for his great Westerns, if he hadn’t come across the American west’s Monument Valley first. The road from Alice Springs is breathtaking. Wild horses graze on grass from recent rains. Wrecked cars are casualties of the dead-straight road’s mesmerising dangers. Then, as I pass the boundary leading to Wallace Rockhole, an aboriginal settlement, a big blue sign by the road jolts me back to my journey’s purpose: “Warning. Prescribed Area. No Liquor. No Pornography.” …
A new giant lizard
April 8th, 2010 |
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The golden age of zoology was the 19th century, and the islands of South-East Asia were particularly rich hunting grounds. Indeed, it was on an expedition to the area that Alfred Russel Wallace came up with the idea of evolution by natural selection and, through a letter to Charles Darwin describing his hypothesis, panicked Darwin into publishing his own thoughts on the matter in “The Origin of Species”. It might therefore be thought that by now the area’s jungles would have been picked clean of large, showy species. Not so, apparently. This week Biology Letters, one of the journals of the venerable Royal Society of which both Wallace and Darwin were fellows, describes something novel from northern Luzon, in the Philippines, that is large, showy and also slightly strange. It is a monitor lizard as long as a man is tall, which is a close relative of the notoriously carnivorous Komodo dragon, yet which is, itself, vegetarian. Varanus bitatawa is, as is often the way of these things, well known to local hunters. Until Luke Welton and Rafe Brown of the University of Kansas came along, though, it was unknown to science.
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Feb. 8, 1865: Mendel Reads Paper Founding Genetics
February 8th, 2010 |
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1865: Gregor Mendel reads his first paper on genetics to the local scientific organization. It will be decades before Mendel’s intellectual seeds take root in the fertile grounds of Darwinism and grow a scientific revolution.
Mendel was born in 1822 and became an Augustinian monk, living at the monastery in Brünn, Moravia. (Moravia was then ruled [...]
Dropkick Murphys To Release: Live On Lansdowne 3/16
January 18th, 2010 |
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DROPKICK MURPHYS TO RELEASE LIVE ON LANSDOWNE, BOSTON, MA 3/16
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Dropkick Murphys have captured the intensity and camaraderie of their annual Boston hometown St. Patrick’s Day shows on Live On Lansdowne, Boston, MA, a CD and DVD set for release March 16 via the group’s own Born & Bred Records (ILG). Live On Lansdowne features 20 fan favorites and was recorded during seven Boston shows in March 2009. It will be available in various formats: CD, double disc digipack with CD and HD DVD, as well as a double gate fold vinyl with a bonus CD insert.
Live On Lansdowne marks the critically-acclaimed group’s second live release recorded during their annual string of St. Patrick’s Day week gigs, following 2002′s Live On St. Patrick’s Day From Boston MA, which has sold over 250,000 copies worldwide. Live On Lansdowne features an entirely different track listing from the previous release and includes a guest appearance by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones on Dropkick’s platinum-selling single “I’m Shipping Up To Boston.”
This March, The Murphys – known for their complex distillation of classic punk rock, Celtic folk and American rock ‘n roll – return to Boston’s House Of Blues for six sold-out gigs St. Patrick’s Day week (March 12-17). Each year, the band – who have released 10 full-length CDs and sold over 3 million copies worldwide – break house records when these shows go on sale. The St. Patrick’s Day shows are the peak of Dropkick Murphys’ touring calendar, and fans travel to Boston from around the world for a chance to become part of this unique experience.
Leading up to the Boston gigs, Dropkick Murphys – Ken Casey (vocals, bass guitar), Al Barr (vocals), Matt Kelly (drums, backing vocals), James Lynch (guitar, backing vocals), Tim Brennan (guitar, accordion, piano, backing vocals), Jeff DaRosa (mandolin, accordion, banjo, bouzouki, tin whistle, acoustic guitar) and Scruffy Wallace (bagpipes) – will tour Europe from January 22 through February 4 and kick off U.S. dates February 23 in Norfolk, VA. The group will return to the U.K. and Ireland for headlining shows from April 12-22. Support acts for the U.S. tour dates will be announced soon.
Live On Lansdowne Street, Boston, MA Track List
1. Famous For Nothing
2. The State Of Massachusetts
3. Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya
4. Time To Go
5. Sunshine Highway
6. Flannigan’s Ball
7. Bastards On Parade
8. God Willing
9. Caught In A Jar
10. Captain Kelly’s Kitchen
11. Citizen C.I.A.
12. Fields Of Athenry
13. Your Spirit’s Alive
14. The Warrior’s Code
15. The Dirty Glass
16. Tessie
17. Forever 2009
18. Worker’s Song
19. Kiss Me, I’m Sh*tfaced
20. I’m Shipping Up To Boston (featuring The Mighty Mighty Bosstones)
Complete Dropkick Murphys tour dates available here.
Palin slammed for using her autobiography for “petty and pathetic†score-settling
November 14th, 2009 |
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Senator John McCain’s aides have slammed Sarah Palin for criticizing the press strategy of the former presidential nominee’s campaign in her upcoming book.
In her book, Palin charges that the staffers assigned to her by McCain’s team blocked her from speaking to the press aboard the campaign plane.
“Aboard the campaign plane I was within twenty-five feet [...]
Facebook Awarded $711 Million in Spam Case
October 30th, 2009 |
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Facebook won a victory against spammers Oct. 29 when a judge in California awarded the site some $711 million in damages in relation to an anti-spam case.
– Facebook scored a win
against a notorious spammer in federal court.
The social networking site was awarded $711 million in damages Oct. 29 by a
U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif.
The judge found spammer Sanford
Wallace guilty of violating the Can-Spam Act as well as a temporary
restrai…
Facebook Awarded $711 Million in Spam Case
October 30th, 2009 |
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Facebook won a victory against spammers Oct. 29 when a judge in California awarded the site some $711 million in damages in relation to an anti-spam case.
– Facebook scored a win
against a notorious spammer in federal court.
The social networking site was awarded $711 million in damages Oct. 29 by a
U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif.
The judge found spammer Sanford
Wallace guilty of violating the Can-Spam Act as well as a temporary
restrai…
Brit glamour model looking for man to massage her newly enhanced boobs
October 13th, 2009 |
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Brit glamour model Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace has revealed that she is very excited about her newly enhanced 34FF boobs, and is now looking for a man to massage them.
Horgan-Wallace, 30, who increased her bust by two sizes, just cannot stop showing them off.
“They’re the best thing I’ve ever done – I love them,†the Sun quoted [...]
Brazil TV host turns himself in
October 10th, 2009 |
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A Brazilian TV presenter accused of ordering killings to boost his programme’s ratings has turned himself in to police after going on the run. Authorities had been looking for Wallace Souza since he disappeared when an arrest warrant was issued.
Sept. 29, 1898: Stalin’s Scientist Sees First Light
September 29th, 2009 |
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1898: Trofim Denisovich Lysenko is born in Karlovka, Ukraine. As dictator Joseph Stalin’s lapdog and top scientist, his influence will almost single-handedly retard the course of Soviet science, especially the fields of genetics and agronomy.
Early Soviet propagandists often relied on “miracles of science” to boost the status of their fledgling state. The young plant breeder [...]
Brazil TV host ‘ordered killings’
August 12th, 2009 |
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By Gary Duffy
BBC News, Sao Paulo
Police have accused a TV presenter in Brazil of being involved in organised drug trafficking and ordering killings to get rid of rivals and boost ratings.
Wallace Souza, who is also a state legislator, says the claims are an attempt by rivals to smear him and that there is no evidence to back them.
But the police say he ordered killings in the state of Amazonas and alerted TV crews to get them to the scene first.
The TV show was halted late last year as police stepped up their inquiry.
If what the police say is true, then this is the TV show that not only reported crime, but was actually behind it as well.
Son charged
The authorities believe that Mr Souza commissioned at least five murders in order to get rid of drug trafficking rivals and to boost his programme ratings.
They say he wanted to prove his claims that the region he represented in the state of Amazonas was plagued with crime.
A local police chief told the Associated Press that the order to execute always came from the presenter and his son, and that TV crews were alerted to get to the scene of the crime first.
State Security Secretary Francisco Cavalcanti says the truth has now become clear.
"On several occasions they fabricated the facts, they fabricated news," Mr Cavalcanti said.
Wallace Souza faces a variety of charges, including drug trafficking and weapons possession, but remains free because for the moment his political role gives him immunity.
His son Rafael, meanwhile, has been arrested on charges of murder, drug trafficking and illegally possessing guns.
Lawyers for Wallace Souza, a former policeman who was expelled from the force, say the accusations are an attempt to smear him and that there is not one piece of material proof to back the police claims.
This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.
Robert Redford: Why We Need a Bold Vision for Preserving Our Wilderness
July 27th, 2009 |
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Places I viewed as symbols of this so-called Promised Land have disappeared into clear cuts, drilling fields, and open-pit mines. What do our children inherit from this irretrievable loss? Pictures of how it used to be?
Obamas planning luxurious holiday at Martha’’s Vineyard
July 25th, 2009 |
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America’s First Family is going to holiday next month on the luxurious Martha’’s Vineyard, which has a basketball court for President Barack Obama.
The buzz on the island off Massachusetts was that Obamas have rented the 20 million dollar, 28-acre Blue Heron Farm in the Chilmark section for the last two weeks in August.
The White House [...]
Katya Wachtel: HuffPost Review: Prom Night in Mississippi
July 20th, 2009 |
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In an important new documentary, Morgan Freeman attempts to coax a revolution in his hometown of Charleston, Mississippi, where the local high school still has segregated proms.
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads
July 19th, 2009 |
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Hello, fellow Muggles, and welcome to this week’s edition of your Sunday Morning Liveblog, your weekly, occasionally witty rundown of the week in political monkeyshines and the Hollow Men who rend their garments over it, whilst you sleep off y…
Toubab Krewe Release “Fire”: Tour with Earl Smith
July 15th, 2009 |
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Toubab Krewe launches the second wave of summer tour with release of “Fire”
A new single featuring Jamaican legends Lukani, Earl Smith and Leroy Wallace
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Fresh from widely praised performances at Rothbury (read our review here), where members of the band joined The Dead on percussion during their headlining July 4th set, Toubab Krewe launches into the second leg of their summer tour with the release of a new single, “Fire.” The collaborative new song was recorded recently at reggae guitar legend Earl Smith‘s front porch home-studio in Kingston, Jamaica and features Lukani (vocals), Smith (guitar) and Leroy “Horsemouth” Wallace (drums).
Toubab Krewe kicks off the tour aboard the first annual Toubab Kruise in New York City on July 15. The band will bring its dance-party inducing fusion of rock ‘n’ roll and West African music to the boat as it sails along the East River, heading through the New York Harbor to the Statue of Liberty.
Special guest Earl Smith will join Toubab Krewe on guitar at all of the upcoming shows through August 1. Perhaps the most sought after guitarist in reggae, Smith has performed and recorded with everyone from Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Peter Tosh and Burning Spear to more recent pop icons like Lauren Hill, Erykah Badu and Joss Stone.
Toubab Krewe plans to spend much of August in the studio recording a new full length album (details TBA).
An extensive fall tour is also in the works, with confirmed dates including the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco (October 8) and the Joshua Tree Music Festival (October 10).
A short video taken of the band’s time in Jamaica during the recording can be seen here:
Upcoming Summer Tour Dates:
07/15/09 Wed The Rocks Off Concert Cruise New York, NY
07/17/09 Fri Festivus for the Restivus (Manifestivus) Cabot, VT
07/18/09 Sat Festivus for the Restivus (Manifestivus) Cabot, VT
07/24/09 Fri Floyd Fest Floyd, VA
07/25/09 Sat Floyd Fest Floyd, VA
07/31/09 Fri Smith’s Olde Bar Atlanta, GA
08/01/09 Sat Smith’s Olde Bar Atlanta, GA
08/07/09 Fri Sweet Pea Festival Bozeman, MT
08/13/09 Thu Camp Barefoot Music Festival Gore, VA
08/14/09 Fri St. Clair Park Greensburg, PA
08/21/09 Fri The Blind Tiger Greensboro, NC
08/22/09 Sat The Blind Tiger Greensboro, NC
09/17/09 Thu Legend’s Music Hall Boone, NC
09/19/09 Sat Exit/In Nashville, TN
09/20/09 Sun Levitt Shell Memphis, TN
09/30/09 Wed Tractor Tavern Seattle, WA
10/08/09 Thu Great American Music Hall San Francisco, CA
10/10/09 Sat Joshua Tree Roots Music Festival Joshua Tree, CA
10/30/09 Fri Neighborhood Theatre Charlotte, NC
01/03/10 Sun Jam Cruise Fort Lauderdale, FL
01/04/10 Mon Jam Cruise Fort Lauderdale, FL
01/05/10 Tue Jam Cruise Fort Lauderdale, FL
01/06/10 Wed Jam Cruise Fort Lauderdale, FL
01/07/10 Thu Jam Cruise Fort Lauderdale, FL
For more on Toubab Krewe see our recent feature/interview here.