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Friday music blogging: Alt-J
I’ve been listening to Alt-J’s debut album, An Awesome Wave, for a while now, but it’s taken time to sink in. It is a deeply odd and idiosyncratic album, not quite like anything you’ve ever heard, it takes while to feel out its contours. However, the album just won UK’s Mercury Prize for best album, […]
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VIDEO: Romney confronted in Ohio, “Do you still think the rising of the seas is funny?”
At a campaign event today in Etna, Ohio, Gov. Romney was asked, “Do you still think the rising of the seas is funny?” Romney responded, “I never imagined such a thing is funny,” despite using rising sea levels as a punchline in his speech to the Republican National Convention.
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The most brutal ad you’ll see this election
Remember when Mitt Romney mocked efforts to "slow the rise of the oceans"? That joke's not so funny this week, as a hard-hitting new ad points out.
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London traffic light has 75 anxiety-inducing signals
It's a traffic light! It's a piece of public art! It stands where a tree used to stand! It makes us want to cry!
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These beautiful, sobering murals are made entirely out of sugar
A Canadian artist uses sugar to make art depicting the slave trade and its relationship to the sugar industry in the Americas. Pretty sweet.
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Newark Mayor Cory Booker is checking on people’s families, hosting sleepovers, and generally being amazing
In the aftermath of Sandy, Newark Mayor Cory Booker is dispensing supplies, offering supportive words, and even letting folks crash at his house. Meet your new political crush.
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Clean Energy on the Ballot: Fossil Fuel Companies Spending Big to Defeat Michigan Initiative
With Election Day just around the corner, I know many of you will be thinking about clean energy, climate change, and coal pollution when you cast your ballots. I have to admit, I’m a little jealous of my friends in Michigan who get to vote on a fantastic opportunity for more clean energy in their […]
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Lobster in costume found on Halloween
A half-black half-orange lobster was found in Massachusetts on Halloween.
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A walnut thief is on the loose with millions of innocent walnuts
Some guy posed as a walnut delivery driver and stole a buttload of walnuts. He's 6'2" and he has a Russian accent. Be on the lookout.
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Factory farms raise a stink — and they might raise your blood pressure too
A recent study found that people living near CAFOs experience stress-related blood pressure spikes when farm odors are at their worst.
