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Eat It Don't Tweet It

Great video parodying the modern combination of conspicuous consumption (food) and social media!

 

Filed under  //   YouTube   popular culture   social networking   video  

Social Media Parenting

So, should I be upset that this is how I learn of my college-aged son's exciting achievements, via Facebook?

Filed under  //   Facebook   college   parenting   social networking  
Posted March 9, 2012

The Road We've Traveled

Obama's new campaign documentary trailer.

Filed under  //   2012   Obama   elections   politics  
Posted March 8, 2012

How Lindsay Lohan Destroyed Her Looks

This is so sad.

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As if her hard partying lifestyle hadn't taken enough of a toll on her once-beautiful face, Lindsay Lohan appears to be addicted to unnecessary fillers and injections...

Filed under  //   celebrities   movies   popular culture  

Amazing Photo of Carina Nebula

Wow!

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Scientists made the image using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, combining hundreds of smaller images to make this giant one, like a mosaic.

Filed under  //   astronomy   photos   science   universe  

Massive Solar Outburst Could Dazzle Your Weekend

Auroras may dazzle more people than usual this weekend as Earth receives a glancing blow from an enormous solar outburst that erupted on Jan. 19.

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Filed under  //   science   universe  

Astronomers Aim For First Photo of Black Hole

It would be absolutely fantastic if scientists coulod actually take a picture of the event horizon of a black hole. Since as we now know, even Hawking was wrong in hypothesizing that nothing escapes...

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Taking a picture of a black hole, an object so gravitationally bound that not even photons of light can escape, sounds like an oxymoron, but astronomers this week will attempt to do just that. What they're hoping to glimpse is something called the "event horizon" -- the swirl of matter and energy that are visible around the rim of the black hole just before it falls into the abyss.

via news.discovery.com

 

Filed under  //   Hawking   black holes   physics   science   space