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Charter for Compassion countdown
on Nov 1, 2009 in Uncategorized “In February 2008, Karen Armstrong won the TED Prize and called for the creation of a Charter for Compassion to bring together people of different religions and moral codes in a powerful common cause. The Charter launches November 12, accompani...
Halloween Music Stream From NPR Music
on Nov 1, 2009 in Uncategorized “NPR Music staffers and station partners observe the holiday by assembling a chilling collection of songs about ghosts, hauntings and otherwise disembodied and discombobulated spirits. More unsettling than pumpkins and more ethereal than zombie...
Beatles mp3s finally available online
on Nov 1, 2009 in Music BlueBeat.com has them for an unbelievable $.25 a track, as well as free unlimited streaming. Hope it’s legal. Posted in Music...
There’s a word for that?
on Oct 31, 2009 in Language “Mamihlapinatapai is a word from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the “most succinct word”, and is considered one of the hardest words to translate. It describes “a look shared by tw...
Halloween Warning: That’s Not A Polar Bear Costume
on Oct 31, 2009 in Uncategorized “It's polar bear season in the town of Churchill, Manitoba. Officials usually warn kids to stay inside after dark in case a migrating bear comes too close to town. But on Halloween night, the town bands together in a polar bear patrol to ke...
Physicist makes high-res Milky Way photo
on Oct 31, 2009 in Astronomy div class=”quote”> ‘‘A U.S. physics professor says he has put together 3,000 individual photographs to produce a high-resolution panoramic view of the Milky Way galaxy. Axel Mellinger of Central Michigan University said he spe...