by | May 19, 2021 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from AP Street racing surges across US amid coronavirus pandemic By ANDREW SELSKY Jaye Sanford, a 52-year-old mother of two, was driving home in suburban Atlanta on Nov. 21 when a man in a Dodge Challenger muscle car who was allegedly street racing crashed into her...
by | May 18, 2021 | Culture Music Art
from France 24 Picasso painting sells for $103 mn in New York: auction house The painting ‘Femme assise près d’une fenêtre (Marie-Thérèse)’ is the fifth one by Pablo Picasso to sell for more than $100 million DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS AFP/File Pablo...
by | May 16, 2021 | Culture Music Art
from Study Finds Newly discovered letter reveals Albert Einstein’s views on birds, bees, and physics by John Anderer Letter by Albert Einstein, validated by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where Einstein bequeathed his notes, letters and records. Click to enlarge....
by | May 15, 2021 | Culture Music Art, Mirth
from VICE ‘Fuck This Court’: We Obtained Larry Flynt’s FBI File and It’s Pretty Wild The 322-page file contains a litany of events from John DeLorean’s cocaine bust to an alleged effort by Flynt to blow himself up in front of the Supreme Court. By Irving Alpert When...
by | May 14, 2021 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from The New Yorker The Mysterious Origins of the Cerne Abbas Giant On a hillside ages ago, people inscribed a naked man with a twenty-six-foot-long erect penis. Why did they do it? By Rebecca Mead The sun was still low in the sky on the spring morning last...
by | May 13, 2021 | Culture Music Art
from Audubon Reconnecting the Colorado River to the Sea Binational Water Conservation Making the Colorado River More Sustainable for People and Birds By Jennifer Pitt Delivery of water for the environment in the Colorado River Delta, May 3, 2021. Photo: Adrián...