by | Dec 23, 2014 | Culture Music Art
from Fox News Joe Cocker dead at 70 Joe Cocker, the singer and songwriter whose hits included “You Are So Beautiful” and “Up Where We Belong,” has died of lung cancer, his agent, Barrie Marshall, confirmed to FOX411. Cocker was 70 years old. “Joe Cocker is...
by | Dec 20, 2014 | Culture Music Art
from The New York Times Rock Scully, Grateful Dead’s Manager Who Put the Band on Records, Dies at 73 By DOUGLAS MARTIN Rock Scully, front left, in a Grateful Dead “family portrait” in San Francisco in 1966, soon after he became manager, in front of 710a Ashbury...
by | Dec 17, 2014 | Culture Music Art, Projects
from VentureBeat Google’s Niantic Labs embarks on a giant interactive transmedia project with controversial author James Frey by Dean Takahashi Endgame is going to be a fascinating project in collective storytelling. The project started as Endgame: The Calling, a...
by | Dec 16, 2014 | Culture Music Art
from The Financial Times Scientists call for killer asteroid hunt by Richard Waters in San Francisco< ©ESO/L. Calçada/M. Kornmesser/Nick Risinger An international group of astronauts, scientists and others have called for a rapid expansion of efforts to detect...
by | Dec 13, 2014 | Culture Music Art
from DISCOVERY Are Habitable Binary Planets Possible? BY IAN O’NEILL As we seek out planets orbiting stars inside their habitable zones, astronomical techniques are becoming so sophisticated that, one day, we may be able to probe the atmosphere of a distant...
by | Dec 8, 2014 | Culture Music Art
from The New Yorker Postscript: Ralph Baer, a Video-Game Pioneer BY SIMON PARKIN Year: 1972 Manufacturer: Magnavox Original Cost: US $75 Image from Edge-Online’s amazing History of Video Game Hardware Series Among the many engineers and inventors who purport to...
