Wednesday, October 12, 2011

CODA: Faster than Light? Hold On There -- Not So Fast, Pardner

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Despite the previous reporting from the CERN Large Hadron Collider in Geneva which suggested that Flying Neutrinos -- I said Flying Neutri...
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

"The Mill and the Cross" by Lech Majewski

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Rutger Hauer as "Peasant Pieter (the Elder) Bruegel  Rutger Hauer, Lech Majewski, and Michael Yorke, during the making of "The Mi...
Friday, October 7, 2011

Digital+Culture+Style= The Story of Apple, Inc.

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Steve Jobs leaves a trail of new products for future release/development here The day the notoriously private Steve Jobs contacted his fu...

The Global Woman: 3 Winners of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize

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"[T]he road to freedom is long, the cost of freedom is high [and] the fight for freedom is not for the faint-hearted and the pessimists...
Thursday, October 6, 2011

American Visionary: Steve Jobs 1955-2011

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Steve Jobs 1955-2011 From the NY TIMES obituary: "His worldview was shaped by the ’60s counterculture in the San Francisco Bay Area, w...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

What's Behind the Media, Political and Power Elite Disdain for "Occupy Wall Street" ? While Some NYPD Support and Refuse to Suppress the Activists?

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from Kevin Gosztola's trenchant analysis on the opposition to "Occupy Wall Street":  "[Journalist John] Avlon is an exa...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Google@13: Dead Sea Scrolls Online

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13 years and counting, Google posts the Dead Sea Scrolls online: Overview here The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls, beautifully rendered, are h...
Monday, September 26, 2011

Coda: Summer of Eleven Earthquake Shuts Washington Monument

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The Washington monument is shuttered indefinitely for repairs following last summer's earthquake. Tourists ran from the building as it s...
Thursday, September 22, 2011

Faster than the Speed of Light?

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Has the team at CERN identified particles that are shot between two labs that are arriving slightly before they left the lab. Does this indi...

Preventing the Great Depression 2: Nouriel Roubini

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Nouriel Roubini outlines recommended steps to prevent the double dip recession from collapsing into a full-fledged global depression (aka Gr...

Plain Speaking: Elizabeth Warren on the Debt Crisis and Fair Taxation -- Direct and to the Point

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Democratic Senate candidate in Massachusetts Elizabeth Warren on the Debt Crisis and Fair Taxation here
Monday, September 19, 2011

Monday Morning Melody": David Bowie on Soul Train Sings Golden Years

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David Bowie interviewed by the legendary Don Cornelius on "Soul Train" and then performs "Golden Years." Looks like a ...

What's Going On In the White House During this Economic Crisis: One (Almost) Doesn't Want to Know

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NY Magazine's Adam Moss and Frank Rich weigh in on Ron Suskind's book about the Obama Adminstration's Economic Quagmire, Confide...
Friday, September 16, 2011

Art and Anti-Art: Maurizio Cattelan Flips the Bird

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This fall, Maurizio Cattelan will take New York, and probably America, by storm when his retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum opens in ear...
Thursday, September 15, 2011

Save the St Marks Bookshop - Please Sign the Petition

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The St. Mark's Bookshop is a NYC literary treasure. The St. Mark's Bookshop has a long tradition in the Lower East Side and serves a...