Mimi O’Donnell on Philip Seymour Hoffman

from Vogue Mimi O’Donnell Reflects on the Loss of Philip Seymour Hoffman and the Devastation of Addiction by MIMI O’DONNELL AS TOLD TO ADAM GREEN The exceptional leading man Philip Seymour Hoffman, whose death in 2014 dealt a heartbreaking blow to American cultural...

Earth Hum

from CBS News Earth’s mysterious hum recorded underwater for 1st time By MINDY WEISBERGER This photo from NASA’s Suomi NPP satellite shows the Eastern Hemisphere of Earth in “Blue Marble” view. NASA/NOAA Far from the blaring cacophony of...

U2 Not Dead

from RealClearLife Rock’n’Roll Won’t Die, No Matter What U2 Says The music industry as we knew is gone, but rock will survive. By Tim Sommer Very recently, I saw some respectable men in their late fifties prancing around on TV. They were sitting shiva for rock’n’roll....

Snip-snip

from McClatchy Here’s how to shut down the internet: Snip undersea fiber-optic cables BY TIM JOHNSON A crewman pulls on undersea cable that will be laid in the Caribbean in this 2001 photo from the Port of Miami. The crewman stands in a cable well holding 120 miles of...

Massive Penis-shaped Space Rock Befuddles

from The Atlantic Astronomers to Check Mysterious Interstellar Object for Signs of Technology Russian billionaire Yuri Milner says if the space rock ‘Oumuamua is giving off radio signals, his team will be able to detect them—and they may get the results within...