‘Listen to this photograph,” Aaron Huey wrote to his friends on Facebook. The National Geographic photojournalist was not conflating technologies. A link to the new site Cowbird opened onto a huge black-and-white photograph of two women bending and curving their bodies toward each other. Between their outstretched arms, more women crowd on a couch, one mid-guitar-strum. As soon as the page opens, an audio track begins to play. The melancholy voices sing a ballad, as a guitar is strummed slowly in the background. Read full article > >

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Cowbird sets photos to song

The underwater world on display in Disney’s “ Finding Nemo ” is teeming with a dizzying array of cheery creatures, from sea turtles to seahorses and mackerel sharks . So a team of Canadian and U.S. scientists decided to assess the mythical ecosystem inhabited by the small clownfish and his friends to see how their real-world counterparts were faring. Read full article > >

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The reality of ‘Finding Nemo’s’ marine life

If you’re following the court proceedings that will help determine whether would-be presidential assassin John W. Hinckley gets more freedom from his psychiatric hospital, you might need a cheat sheet to keep track of his friends and girlfriends. To protect the privacy of Hinckley’s associates — almost all seem to be women — lawyers and witnesses refer to them by their initials. (Attorneys even refer to one of Hinckley’s doctors by her initials because her name is difficult to spell and say.) Read full article > >

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At Hinckley hearings, occasional struggles tracking the women in his life

Protesters participating in the Occupy the Highway march from New York to Washington nearly clashed last night with a group of high-school and college students at a bar in Princeton, N.J. The conflagration began after Princeton student Whetney Brockton started to yell at the marchers as they passed by the bar. “We’re the 1 percent!” Brockton yelled at them, laughing and making a thumbs up sign. “Get a job!” his friends yelled in chorus. Read full article > >

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A South Carolina man was struck by an SUV while attempting to play a real-life version of the videogame Frogger, police said. According to Clemson cops, the 23-year-old man and his friends were discussing the videogame-where a player makes a frog jump…

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Man Struck Playing Real-Life Frogger

A 20-year-old Florida International University baseball star and four of his friends were charged last week with the rape of two females in Nassau, police said Monday.

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College baseball star charged with rape

Canadian actor Leslie Nielsen, star of hilarious movies from Airplane! to the Naked Gun series, passed away Sunday at the age of 84. With his friends and wife by his side, according to Nielsen’s nephew, he died from complications of pneumonia. Though…

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