March 2011
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Tokyo passengers setting off radiation detectors... →
Radiation detectors at Dallas-Fort Worth and Chicago O’Hare airports were triggered when passengers from flights that started in Tokyo passed through customs, the New York Post reported.
Well this doesn’t help Obama’s campaign to keep calm.
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TechCrunch's Alexia Tsotsis stands up for snark →
Snarky, by the way, is just the catch-all term for how bloggers write, and has become something of an empty phrase fitting under the umbrella of any sort of criticism of a subject.
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Your field guide to alien invaders →
They came from outer space … but why? We look at cinema’s rich history of extraterrestial menace
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“Come on now: Let’s take a breath and put this NPR fracas into perspective.
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– Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, “In defense of NPR”
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Newt Gingrich, hypocrite in chief →
The would-be GOP leader blames his serial adultery on patriotism, says God will forgive him. Will voters?
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Does promiscuity cause depression? →
An expert explains to Tracy Clark-Flory about how the link between happiness and monogamy is more complicated than it seems
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WatchThis trailer for a feature-length, Girl Talk music video has the blogosphere buzzing. A collaboration between dancers and a New York artist, the film will show the latest mash-up album in body movement.
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“A weary-sounding Bailey, reached by phone this afternoon, told me that on...”
– The “live sex show professor” from Northwestern speaks to Salon
Inevitably, Professor Bailey says it “wasn’t worth the fallout”
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The Blind Man Who Taught Himself To See →
theatlantic:
We know that many of you have asked to see more stories from The Atlantic in this space, but this article is too fascinating to pass up.
Kish was born with an aggressive form of cancer called retinoblastoma, which attacks the retinas. To save his life, both of his eyes were removed by the time he was 13 months old. Since his infancy — Kish is now 44 — he has been adapting to his...
