In a unique settlement agreement, Parkland shooting survivor Anthony Borges now owns the rights to the gunmanâs name. âThe settlement prevents the gunman from talking to the media or making money by telling his story.â
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Radiolab
⢠WNYC Studios
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From Every Frame a Painting, an appreciation of Jackie Chan and his particular and excellent brand of action comedy.
I love old Jackie Chan movies. When I lived in Minneapolis, a theater there showed them on Saturday nights, late. Drunken Master II is a particular favoriteâŚthe final fight scene is AMAZING. The part about how the camera never moves and shoots wide-angle during his scenes is why action in contemporary Hollywood films leaves me yawning.
[This is a vintage post originally from Dec 2014.]
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In 2002, the US military lost a $250 million war game in 10 minutes. A newly declassified report âwarned of military vulnerabilities to unconventional tactics that were later exploited by enemies in real conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistanâ.
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Lidar drone mapping has revealed previously unknown cities in the mountains of modern-day Uzbekistan that were important Silk Road way stations. One was bigger than many major cities in Italy at the time.
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Edith Zimmerman has put some new stuff in her Etsy shop, including original watercolors and this print of Mermaids of North America (which I love).
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Song Exploder
⢠Hrishikesh Hirway
In 1968, singer and songwriter Graham Nash joined David Crosby and Stephen Stills to form the supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash. All of them had already been in successful bands: Graham Nash had been in The Hollies; David Crosby was in The Byrds; and Stephen Stills was in Buffalo Springfield. The next year, Neil Young joined them, to make Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. The four of them released Deja Vu in 1970, and that album was a huge success. It sold over 8 million copies. It includes the song âOur House,â and for this episode, I spoke to Graham Nash about the making of that song, and the relationship that led to the song.
For more, visit songexploder.net/crosby-stills-nash-and-young.
Kelli Anderson details how the clever A-to-Z 7-segment display mechanism works on the front of Alphabet in Motion, her new pop-up book about typography.
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