La Boom

from The New York Times On Sunday Nights, New York’s Busboys Become Cowboys Mexican immigrants flock to La Boom, in Queens, once a week to dance to songs of the outlaw life. By ANNIE CORREAL Kirsten Luce for The New York Times> On a Sunday evening, just after dark,...

Deflecting Didymoon

from The Sun Plan to save the world from Armageddon Space mission will deflect asteroid in practice to avoid doomsday destruction click to enlarge SCIENTISTS are planning a space mission to nudge an asteroid out of its orbit in a practice run for saving the world. IN...

Exceedingly Ballsy 200-MPH Wingsuit Racing

from WIRED The Excruciating, 200-MPH World of Wingsuit Racing by ALEX DAVIES  Photo by TRAVIS MICKLE JOE RIDLER HAS jumped out of an airplane nearly 700 times in his life, but when he makes the leap later today, the goal will be about more than reaching the ground...

Ai’s And Anish’s Digits

from Instagram Two artists. Three fingers. News: Weiwei and I join hands to walk. We will walk out of London. We will each carry a single blanket. A symbol of the need that faces 60 million refugees in our world today. We welcome those who wish to walk with us. Bring...

Mr. Amazon Robot

from The Hollywood Reporter Amazon Prime Acquires USA’s ‘Mr. Robot’ by Kate Stanhope  Virginia Sherwood/USA Network USA’s hacker drama Mr. Robot is headed to Amazon. The company has acquired Universal Cable Production’s first-year...

Motion City Soundtrack

from exclaim.ca Motion City Soundtrack – ‘Panic Stations’ (album stream) By Sarah Murphy The Minneapolis-based emo kids in Motion City Soundtrack are all grown up and ready to return with Panic Stations next week. But before the nautically-themed set...