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June 2013

Wanna Be A Rock Star? NASA Needs Help Tracking Asteroids : NPR → npr.org

It won’t be quite like Bruce Willis in Armageddon, but maybe you’ll feel just as much a hero.

The White House and NASA want the public’s help in hunting for asteroids that could potentially smash into Earth. They’re also looking for a perfect space rock to capture so that astronauts could go there and study it.

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The 25 movies to which 'World War Z' is a sequal, probably

World War A (in which Isaac Newton is bonked on the head and still bravely figures out gravity)

World War B (spun off from a VH1 reality show)

World War C (in which two dudes hit each other with cellos for 2.5 hours)

Read the rest at NPR’s Monkey See blog.

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“When I see on Twitter that someone with an egg avatar and two followers has gotten a writer I know to spend ages arguing back and forth about nothing, there is part of me that thinks, “Why bother? The world is full of awfulness; you will never beat back all of it.” We all ignore things all day long; if we didn’t, we’d never get anything done.” —Linda Holmes in “Bait And Twitch: Vice Magazine, Suicide Glamour, And Not Staying Quiet”

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“Only one man was brave enough—visionary enough—to see what lay before us, and that was Eddie Murphy. “This is historical,” he said. “For starters, I need to see if Prince can roller‑skate. I’m a comedian, and honestly, what’s funnier than that?” —

The Time I Went Roller-Skating With Prince by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson — from Mo’ Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove.

Jun 18, 2013252 notes

#prince #questlove #eddie murphy #roller skating

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Warner/Chappell, the music company that owns the rights to "Happy Birthday to You," makes about $2 million a year off the song. → npr.org

The birthday song â Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, etc. â is still under copyright protection. That may soon change.

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“BREAKING: In an 8-1 decision, the Supreme Court strikes down rules that require prayer or reading of Bible in public schools.” —

@TodayIn1963, the newest project from NPR’s Code Switch.

All summer long, Code Switch will be following events from the landmark summer of 1963. 50 years ago was a pivotal moment in history, where the sparks of the Civil Rights movement caught flame, and the fire forged a new era in American history.

Today in 1963, The Supreme Court upheld the separation of Church and State in Abington School District v. Schempp. As the U.S. waits for more Civil Rights decisions from the SCOTUS before its summer recess, we’re reminded of where we came from…starting the summer of 1963.

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#CATS #theater #fiction #fanfic

Dear NSA: Please Read This Email : The Protojournalist → npr.org

The data on you is already collected. The question is, who’s looking at it?

Jun 14, 201373 notes

#Protojournalist #data #data mining #NSA #email #privacy

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#food #hamburger #wendy's #burger #cheese #T-Rex burger

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#bike #flying #flying bike #first in bike flight #look up in the air!

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#jazz #music #Marc Cary #Abbey Lincoln

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#film #movies #cinema #theater #women

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#father's day #photography #life magazine

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#food #grilling #halloumi #snapper #fish #cheese #watermelon #green beans #horseradish #peaches #ice cream #balsamic vinegar #radicchio #endive

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#cook your cupboard #food #liquor #cocktails

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#face of the earth #satellite photo

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#favorite song #npr music #james blake

“It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart” —

Anne Frank

Anne Frank was born today in 1929. This quote is from her diary, “The Diary of a Young Girl” which was written while her family was in hiding during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. She died in 1945 and her diary was published in 1947 by her father, Otto Frank. You can get a copy of her diary at the library.

(via nypl)

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“Alfred Hitchcock once described actors as cattle. ‘That would make child actors veal,’ said Mara Wilson, star of the 1996 film ‘Matilda.’” —Why do so many child actors “lose it” as young adults? Recently, Nickelodeon’s ’90s sensation Amanda Bynes wrapped herself up in a media and police frenzy, similar to actress Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears (circa 2007). Listen to Wilson on the pressures of child stardom and read the rest from Talk of the Nation.

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#LindsayLohan #AmandaBynes #BritneySpears #MaraWilson #childstar

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