by | Jan 21, 2018 | Weirdness
from ABC News Earthquake-causing meteor leaves southeast Michigan residents awestruck By KARMA ALLEN Residents of southeast Michigan were left a bit shaken Tuesday night after a big bright flash lit up the sky and the ground beneath them shook. A flying saucer? No. A...
by | Jan 20, 2018 | Culture Music Art
from Reuters ‘Nouvelle cuisine’ pioneer Bocuse dies at 91 Reuters Staff PARIS (Reuters) – Paul Bocuse, one of France’s most celebrated chefs, has died at the age of 91, the interior minister said on Saturday. Bocuse was an early exponent of “nouvelle...
by | Jan 19, 2018 | Weirdness
from Prospect How the internet controls you Corporate giants have created an entirely new surveillance capitalism. And we’re too hooked to care by John Naughton The “dust of exploded beliefs,” the English aphorist Geoffrey Madan once wrote, “may make a fine...
by | Jan 18, 2018 | Culture Music Art
from The New York Times The 747 Had a Great Run. But Farewell Doesn’t Mean the End. By Zach Wichter MARANA, Ariz. — There may be no airliner as recognizable as the Boeing 747, the world’s first jumbo jet, with its iconic hump of an upper deck. For aviation fans, the...
by | Jan 17, 2018 | Culture Music Art
from The Wall Street Journal Hip-Hop’s Generation Gap: ‘Emo’ vs. ‘Dad’ Rap As the music genre has become a commercial juggernaut, some worry about a cultural divide between younger and older artists By Neil Shah Rap has become the most-consumed music in America,...
