Letters of Commendation

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No praise could possibly be higher ~ or more highly valued ~ than that from one extraordinary writer regarding the work of another: http://w...

Survival of the Fittest

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humvees at Camp Liberty, Sept. 2011   Reuters/Mohammed Ameen A look at how U.S. military equipment changed in answer to the new kinds o...

Break On Through to the Other Side UPDATE

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The spacecraft Voyager-1 has exited our solar system!: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21866532    UPDATE: Well, the above ha...

Political Writing As Art

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Britain's Orwell Prize is given out each year to honor excellence in political writing. Three prizes are awarded: one for books, one for...

Culture Shock

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Would you try on a burka if a stranger asked you? Most, it seems, wouldn't. Those who have, exhibit the biggest reaction not when they...

A Tree's 15 Minutes

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Mark Hirsch and his o ak    Mark Hirsch                        For almost a year now, photographer Mark Hirsch has been taking a picture...

Hola, Bonjour, Hello, Cześć, 电话

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"Even by birth," says cognitive scientist Barbara Conboy, "the infant brain can separate languages, just based on the sound s...

The Art of Aging Well

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By 2030, according to this story, seniors (65 or over) will outnumber young children for the first time in history. Fortunately, for the fir...

Wire Why Not?

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Rhode Islander CW Roelle creates amazingly complex "drawings" with wire (slideshow): http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/03/intri...

Earth Hour 2013!

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The countdown has begun to Earth Hour 2013, which is at 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 23. Started in Sydney, Australia, in 2007, the event ...

Another Way To Look at History

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screen shot This website focuses on the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War II (European, North African, and Pacific theater...

Back to School

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Malala walking to her first day of school with her father      screen shot Malala Yousafzai, that brave and mature little girl who was s...

The Good Drone

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Whenever we hear about drones, it's almost always in connection with death and destruction. Paola Santana thinks drones can be used to d...

What Happens in Vegas, 1955 Edition

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  const ru ction in 1955 Loomis Dean—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Photos of Las Vegas in the 1950s, when everyone there was st...

Diamond Mountain Death

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Michael Roach and Christie McNally in 2005  Lyn Sims Photography It reads like a great, weird novel, but it really happened. In the mou...

Ever Green

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When you're building with lumber and you want to make sure that what you're buying is environmentally friendly, according to an arti...

Purple Reign

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Prince is back, by all accounts giving one hell of a performance at SXSW. He's also the subject of a new book, I Would Die 4 U: Why Pr...

'White Guys With Guitars'

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from couchbycouchwest.com You know about SXSW (South by Southwest), and if you thought about it long enough, you'd have to know the...

Winging It

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Have cliff swallows, many of which now build their nests under overpasses, evolved shorter wings to allow them to dodge speeding cars more e...

Ugly Cars

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The Isuzu VehiCROSS is on the list. The ugliest cars of all time ~ at least according to this one guy. What I want to know is, Where...