[So maybe that’s a headline that goes from the obscure to the incomprehensible. But I bet the Google spiders can read it. Welcome to language in the 21st Century: Humans are not the primary audience anymore.] Read full article > >
View original post here:
Joel Achenbach: Karen Handel resigns: Deconstructionists needed
How a 15th Century Bible and a 17th Century scientist’s notebooks give a glorious insight into the written word.
Excerpt from:
The books that shaped history
This is a moment when policymakers should be thinking big, not small. History will little note nor long remember that the payroll tax holiday was extended for two months rather than 12. The complex and difficult questions we’re avoiding, however, may haunt us through the century. Let me be clear that I applaud President Obama and the Democrats for the political victory they won last week. The impact was to weaken the influence of the most reactionary and clueless faction in Congress — the Tea Party Republicans — and strengthen the hand of both progressives and pragmatic conservatives. This can only be a good thing. Read full article > >
See the article here:
A brainpower revolution
Engineers say they were “stunned” to unearth a 17th Century cottage, complete with mummified cat, during a construction project in Lancashire.
NEW YORK — One of the world’s largest Apple stores is opening at the landmark Grand Central Terminal. The 23,000-square-foot personal electronics business will start selling to the public on Friday. The owner of the space, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the city’s bus and subway system, says Apple Inc. is paying $180 per square foot for its lease — slightly less than the $200-per-square-foot top rate at the century-old Manhattan train hub. Read full article > >
Read this article:
Huge Apple store opening at NYC’s Grand Central, likely to draw business to transit hub
BAGHDAD — The boy angled his camera upward and the jumbled world slid into focus. Giant men lumbered under high brick ceilings. They slouched on padded wooden benches, crossing and uncrossing their legs, nearly knocking him over. The boy steadied himself to take photos of the bustling scene at the century-old Shahbandar cafe. Read full article > >
Originally posted here:
With camera, Iraqi boy celebrates life
France lays claim to a 17th Century painting currently being displayed by a London gallery at an art fair in Paris.
Read more:
France says art from UK ‘stolen’
The Alma radio telescope, one of the 21st Century’s grand scientific undertakings, begins its quest to study the earliest stars.
See the rest here:
‘Highest telescope’ begins quest
In the wake of the riots in English cities, law-abiding citizens have been picking up brooms and brushes and joining the clean-up. Is this the 21st Century “Blitz spirit”?
Originally posted here:
Is the broom the symbol of resistance?
CHICAGO — FBI agents took box after box of address books, family calendars, artwork and personal letters in their 10-hour raid in September of the century-old house shared by Stephanie Weiner and her husband. The agents seemed keenly interested in Weiner’s home-based business, the Revolutionary Lemonade Stand, which sells silkscreened infant bodysuits and other clothes with socialist slogans, phrases like “Help Wanted: Revolutionaries.” The search was part of a mysterious, ongoing nationwide terrorism investigation with an unusual target: prominent peace activists and politically active labor organizers. Read full article > >
Go here to read the rest:
Activists cry foul over FBI probe
Findings from a “natural laboratory” in seas off Papua New Guinea suggest that acidifying oceans will severely hit coral reefs by the end of the century.
Go here to see the original:
Bubbling sea signals coral threat
The Australian Climate Commission warns sea levels could rise by 1m by the end of the century, much more than previously thought.
Excerpt from:
Australia climate change ‘real’
Get ready to gleek out: 20th Century Fox TV and the company’s film division will produce a three-dimensional movie version of Glee based on their tour. The studio plans to release the film, GLEE LIVE! 3-D!, directed by Fame’s Kevin Tancharoen, for a…
Read more:
Fox Plans 3-D Glee Movie
Don’t tell Jonathan Franzen. The population of the world, rather than stabilizing around nine billion in the middle of the century as previously expected, is now projected by the United Nations to hit 10.1 billion by century’s end. The world population…
Joel Achenbach: Karen Handel resigns: Deconstructionists needed
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012Huge Apple store opening at NYC’s Grand Central, likely to draw business to transit hub
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
