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Test your Michael Jackson knowledge
The horde of people gathered on the streets outside Liverpool Street train station, one of the city’s major transport hubs, and burst out into cheers, chants and dances to the tunes of “Billie Jean,” “Bad” and “Thriller.” Life-long Jackson fan Milo Yiannopoulos organized the moonwalk, the singer’s trademark backwards shuffle, by sending messages via Twitter and Facebook. His messages went “viral” –spreading like wildfire around the Internet — as the number of people wanting to join his impromptu “flash mob” event far exceeded his expectations: “I don’t know what I’ve unleashed here,” Yiannopoulos, who said he doesn’t even know how to moonwalk, told CNN
Sex Sells. Here’s Why We Buy
Spent: Sex, Evolution and Consumer Behavior Geoffrey Miller Viking, 483 pages The Gist: That iPhone in your pocket That’s for sex. As is pretty much everything you’ve ever bought, from the car you drive to the t-shirt you wear — or so says evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller. From mating to marketing, Miller explores how everyday consumer choices subtly — and sometimes not so subtly — reveal society’s misguided attempts at projecting four central traits to attract sexual partners
The Art and Heart of Blind Photographers
Blind photography: the very concept sounds like an oxymoron. But an intriguing and often striking exhibition of photographs in Riverside, California, argues that it emanates from the core of contemporary art. The show “Sight Unseen,” at the California Museum of Photography until Aug.
Space craft to use ‘sails’ for fast return to Earth
The humble sail is undergoing a revolution and is set to be thrust into outer-space for use on satellites, rockets and other space craft. A new form of sail, known as an “aerobraking sail”, is being adapted by space engineers who hope to use it to speed up the return of various forms of space craft to Earth faster than they would naturally fall from the sky. The development comes at a critical time when the volume of space junk in orbit is continuing to rise and poses an ever-increasing collision threat to new missions
Jack Kemp, GOP’s Supply-Side Beacon, Dies
Former Congressman Jack Kemp, who died Saturday at age 73 after a bout with cancer, was the Republican party’s top cheerleader for tax cuts for nearly a generation. Handsome, energetic and almost heroically optimistic, Kemp was also a man that many tax-cutting conservatives believed was the only proper legatee to Ronald Reagan.
Review: ‘Wolverine’ doesn’t cut it
Actors call it "backstory." It’s all the stuff that happened in the past, before the movie begins.
When Fixing Government, Beware of the Brainiacs
Rotten economy? Not if you’re in the business of radically overhauling American government.
‘Save Chuck’ latest in campaigns to rescue favorite shows
It happens every season. Word gets out that a television show is “on the bubble” and may be canceled. The reasons vary, but more often than not, the ratings don’t match the adoration of the fans
Thailand revokes former PM Thaksin’s passport
Thailand’s government said Wednesday it has revoked the passport of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who it accuses of helping stoke anti-government hostility that flared into deadly street protests this week. The state-run Thai News Agency quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Tharit Charungwat saying Thaksin’s passport was annulled from April 12, when his supporters stormed a venue forcing the cancellation of a major Asian summit