by | Dec 28, 2014 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from The New Yorker The Age of Asteroids BY JONATHAN BLITZER A view of the asteroid Lutetia from the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft. CREDITIMAGE FROM THE EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY Brian May, the longtime guitarist of the rock band Queen, is also an...
by | Dec 27, 2014 | Culture Music Art
from Paste Magazine Netflix is Producing an Original Nina Simone Documentary By Christine Campbell Netflix has taken on a Liz Garbus documentary detailing the life of iconic songstress and civil rights activist, Nina Simone. The project, to be called What Happened,...
by | Dec 26, 2014 | Weirdness
from The AP MONKEY GIVES FIRST AID TO ELECTROCUTED FRIEND NEW DELHI (AP) — Onlookers at a train station in northern India watched in awe as a monkey came to the rescue of an injured friend – resuscitating another monkey that had been electrocuted and...
by | Dec 25, 2014 | Culture Music Art
from The Wall Street Journal Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God The odds of life existing on another planet grow ever longer. Intelligent design, anyone? By ERIC METAXAS In 1966 Time magazine ran a cover story asking: Is God Dead? Many have accepted the...
by | Dec 24, 2014 | Literary News
from The New York Times What Accounts for Our Current — or Recurrent — Fascination With Memoir-Novels? Each week in Bookends, two writers take on questions about the world of books. This week, Leslie Jamison and Daniel Mendelsohn discuss our interest in narratives...
