Urns: They store burned-up dead people. And pretty much look the part. No way you’re going to display The Ashes Formerly Known As Grandma on your sleek Wright-inspired mantle in some depressing brass death trophy. Can we interest you in a stylish metallic cube? More »
Donald Trump said Tuesday that Mitt Romney should “not apologize” for describing nearly half of all Americans as people “dependent on government” who are unable to take “personal responsibility for their lives.”
The billionaire business magnate added that the presidential nominee had “probably [said] what he means.”
“We’ve seen enough apologizing already,” Trump said on NBC’s “Today” show, the Washington Post notes.
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From TakePart’s Alison Fairbrother:
If corporations are people now, why can’t rivers be?
Under a landmark agreement, signed in New Zealand earlier this summer, the Whanganui River has become a legal entity with a legal voice.
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Nearly 100 years ago, President Woodrow Wilson created the National Park Service, the agency that currently maintains 84 million acres of American land in 397 national parks—from the nation’s tallest mountains to our most wild forests. Since Wilson’s era, the U.S. park system has grown substantially. In 1920, one million people visited the parks each year. Now, more than 280 million visitors utilize our parks annually. That’s nearly 90 percent of Americans. But the preservation of these wild spaces is not a given.
Sen. Scott Brown’s reelection campaign committed an embarrassing typo on a position flyer that Brown tweeted out from his personal Twitter account Tuesday, asking backers to spread the word on the Massachusetts Republican’s support of women and women’s issues.
“Stand with Scott Brown. Spread the word, reteet this,” the e-literature says, unfortunately leaving out the “W” in a pitch to women.
Brown has been battling to close the gender gap in the Bay State in his contest against Democrat and former consumer advocate Elizabeth Warren. Last week, he released an ad proclaiming himself pro-choice.
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Yesterday, an attractive couple walked into a building and left with an instrument case. The twist? They may have left with a stolen cello. A Reddit user who goes by “TravisYoung” posted security pictures that seem to track the man and woman (who, it’s been pointed out, look like Bobby Flay and Parker Posey) entering the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, walking up the stairs with smiles on their faces, and leaving, the cello mounted on the man’s back.
In his plea posted yesterday, the Reddit user says the cello belongs to his 23-year-old son. Calling it “one of the most expensive things I have ever owned,” he writes that his son depended on the instrument not only for his degree coursework, but as his “sole source of income.”
In the thread, TravisYoung writes that the instrument is a 1987 Karl Hofner Bubenreuth, a German brand that can fetch $4000 on Ebay in used condition.
Snoop’s eldest son Corde was everything a parent could want – a good student, a star athlete . . . and a soon-to-be COLLEGE MAN. But he’s decided to put COLLEGE on hold.
This is the most awesome bit of science news I’ve heard in a long time. Scientists have determined that a warp drive similar to what the Enterprise used to get around the universe is actually more plausible than previously thought. Back in 1994, a Mexican physicist named Miguel Alcubierre proposed a spacecraft that had a ring around a football-shaped craft.
The idea was that the ring, constructed from exotic matter, would warp space-time around ship creating contracted space in front and expanded space behind, pushing the craft at faster-than-light speeds without breaking the cosmic speed limit, about ten times the speed of light. The problem was that further research concluded that the spacecraft would need a minimum amount of energy equal to the mass-energy of Jupiter.
Further investigation by scientist Harold White from the NASA Johnson Space Center has determined that the needed amount of energy is actually much less than previously believed – with a few tweaks to the design of the ship. Rather than using a flat ring, White proposed a ring shaped like a rounded doughnut and determined that using that shape the warp drive could be powered by a mass about the size of the spacecraft like the Voyager 1 probe. White also said that by oscillating the intensity of the space warps the energy could be reduced even more. As a result of White’s recent findings, further research will be conducted on the possibility of warp travel.
[via Space.com]
Ryan Seacrest stopped by “Today” Tuesday to tamp down rumors that new “American Idol” judges Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj are feuding. Seacrest stressed that the two “get along fine,” but conceded that their strong personalities have clashed a time or two.
“There are not too many dull moments between the two of them, but at the end of the day, we all hug and laugh and go home and get ready for another day. They get along fine, but they’re strong and candid in their opinion.”
Seacrest joked that he was more worried about how another pair of “Idol” judges were getting along. Randy Jackson and Keith Urban “will not share a mirror,” he quipped.
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WASHINGTON — Midway through a routine Internet search, James Carter IV stumbled upon a video that just didn’t seem right.
The grandson of former President Jimmy Carter and a self-fashioned Democratic opposition researcher, the younger Carter had watched countless hours of footage of Republican Mitt Romney and made it a habit to search YouTube every few days for keywords like “Romney” and “Republicans.”
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