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The Eureka Quake
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Brain damage and the NFL: Inseparable.
This is by no means a follow up or related post to my collection of NFL Music Videos. It’s but an excerpt from the recent coverage in GQ of research of brain injuries. The article is “Game Brain” and it will rattle the (American) football industry:
What the NFL couldn’t have known then, of course, is that [...]
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Black Friday began as the day of bedlam in Philadelphia
“According to researchers, the name “Black Friday” dates back to Philadelphia in the mid-1960s. The Friday in question is nestled snugly between Thanksgiving and the traditional Army-Navy football game that’s played in Philadelphia on the following Saturday, so the City of Brotherly Love was always bustling with activity on that day. All of the people [...]
States in Fiscal Peril
via Global Economic Analysis. For more upbeat news, check out today’s FTW.
This American Life [audio]
An hour explaining the American health care system, specifically, why it is that costs keep rising. One story looks at the doctors, one at the patients and one at the insurance industry.
via This American Life.
Elemental handle [architecture]
door handle, originally uploaded by d.teil.
A door handle detail in Gottfried Böhm’s Maria in den Trümmern (Chapel of Madonna in the Ruins) in Cologne, Germany, 1950.
via Archidose
Happy Sep 1 to all you rollie pollies…
“WHAT YOU ARE SAYING IS POLITICALLY PROBLEMATIC AND I MUST ROLL AROUND ON THE GROUND TO TRY TO FORGET YOUR VILE WORDS”
The man who can embrace the moment in such a royally public way truly deserves to be called a Moneydick.
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Director of Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research (is a victim of racial profiling)
Pictured above: Oprah, and Henry Louis Gates. Guess which one was arrested after trying to enter his own house?
Episode 4: “Who left the Irony on?” starts like this:
BOSTON – Police responding to a call about “two black males” breaking into a home near Harvard University ended up arresting the man who lives there — Henry [...]
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Youtube Doubling