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Friday music blogging: Father John Misty
Joshua Tillman is your basic aimless white boy who washed up in Seattle in the early ’00s and started writing songs. (Kinda like me, if blog posts were songs.) He released a series of solo albums under the moniker J. Tillman and started opening for like-minded whispery experimental folkies like Damien Jurado. From 2008 to […]
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North Korea claims to have discovered an ancient unicorn lair
It was bound to happen sooner or later, what with all those unicorns running around.
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World’s largest aquarium criticized for capturing endangered dolphins
The biggest aquarium in the world has opened in Singapore. It features 25 bottle-nosed dolphins who had been living pretty happily in the wild.
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New Poll Finds Ratepayers Strongly Oppose Duke Energy Coal Boondoggle
As state regulators prepare to make a major decision on the future of a proposed Indiana coal plant with a $3.5 billion price tag, this week the Sierra Club and allies released a new poll and report showing that the public is strongly opposed to footing the bill for this over-budget boondoggle. Duke Energy is […]
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Sen. Jeff Merkley on the (surprisingly nontrivial) chances for filibuster reform
There's been talk of reforming dysfunctional Senate rules for years. This time, says Sen. Jeff Merkley, it may actually happen.
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Artist plans to explode a tree on the National Mall
It sounds like a lovely idea -- possibly the only excuse we’ll ever buy for setting a tree on fire.
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Go, go, gadget Grist: Help us stay on the cutting edge
Can you imagine Austin Powers without his Shaguar? Or Maxwell Smart without the shoe phone? Grist can't go far without the right tech tools, either.
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Joe Biden doesn’t need tires, and neither do you, America
Avuncular veep Joe Biden hits up a Costco to buy children's books and pie but no car tires. Why? Because Joe knows driving is for losers.
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The amazing frogfish is a master of disguise
For the frogfish, every day is Halloween. They're going as a sexy sponge! Or a sexy algae-covered rock.
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Prehistoric poo yields clues about concentration of people in the environment
Scientists have found that a chemical found in human feces is a good way to figure out where people have lived and for how long and in what concentrations.
