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So there's a giant cloud hanging out in the Milky Way galaxy that smells a little bit like rum and tastes a little bit like raspberries. Here's why Sagittarius B2 may be the most delicious cloud in space.
The best superhero movie ever made, The Incredibles, is getting a long-awaited sequel. And count your blessings — it's getting made by the original Incredibles director, Brad Bird.
Back in March, Genki Sudo and his synchronized dance group World Order (previously) officially opened the 2015 Japanese baseball season by throwing the opening pitch in an ensemble choreographed movement. While Sudo actually threw the ball, the other members of the group created the effect of many independent arms, a reference to the thousand-armed Senju Kannon deity of Japanese tradition. The pitch took place at Miyagi Stadium in Japan.
Wednesday afternoon, BuzzFeed published a post by staff writer Arabelle Sicardi that openly criticized a bizarre advertising campaign by Dove. Thursday morning, however, BuzzFeed deleted the entire post and replaced it with a single sentence: “We pulled this post because it is not consistent with the tone of BuzzFeed Life.”
Last week a large truck-mounted construction crane abruptly tipped over during the erection of a party tent at the Dallas Museum of Art. The crane’s boom fell on the museum’s facade, causing minor damage and propping the crane at an alarming angle. According to CBS Dallas/Fort Worth, many onlookers mistook the sight of the upended crane for a new art installation. Fortunately there were no serious injuries in the accident.
Today, musician Jonathan Glenn of young Boston band Spoonface proudly showed off his new busking license on Twitter. The pass gives him permission to play music deep in the bowels of our various subway stations without fear of getting harassed from officials, and it even has a large music note sublimated under the text — so you know it’s legit. “Legality to underground busking has never felt so good. #MBTA,” Glenn writes.
But Boston.com writer Chris Caesar was quick to point out the probably unintentional choice of font sizes on Glenn’s license, which screams NO VALUE in caps across the top in lettering larger than the dude’s name. We know that’s an attempt to prevent those pesky black-market busking pass sales, but it seems demeaning.
“Not sure if ‘NO VALUE’ should be bolder than the name, a little mean tbh,” Caesar tweets.
Cider: It once operated out of a two-car garage, but Bull Run Cider has officially hit the big time, opening a new taproom in Forest Grove on Friday. The new space has 17 taps, but won't offer food. However, Bull Run cidermakers promise to share limited run experiments that wouldn't otherwise see the light of day.
“To represent a culture, you must listen to a culture.”
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In the space of a week, Sean Vesce, creative director at E-Line, met with four different groups, including an Alaska Native elders group that counted William Hensley, who helped negotiate the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, among its members. He also met with a group of kids hand-picked by the Alaska Native community to represent youth issues and a group of CITC employees of indigenous heritage.
The fourth meeting was with an artists and storytellers group, where Vesce met Ishmael Hope, an actor, playwright, and poet who immediately delivered some hard truths about the project. Hope’s father is Tlingit, an Alaska Native people whose culture is based in the southeastern portion of the state. Hope is an expert in the Tlingit language. His mother is Iñupiaq, an Alaska Native people who hail from the state’s northernmost regions and who currently live in large numbers in the town of Barrow, Alaska, which sits above the Arctic Circle.
“[Ishmael] was the one that came out right at the outset and said, ‘Hey, look, if you guys are thinking that you’re gonna come up here once in a while and make your game down in Seattle, and check in with us once in a while to see if you’re on the track, there’s a long list of films and books and other kinds of artists that have come up to try that, and they have all failed,’” Vesce recalled. “‘If you want to succeed in this, if you want to create something that’s really appropriate and authentic, and you want to make something that not only excites people outside Alaska but makes people inside Alaska proud, you’re going to have to involve us in a very direct way, throughout the entire development.’ That really set the tone with us, in the way that we engaged with the community from that point forward.”
Hope and Vesce had a lengthy dialogue about how Westerners needed to break down internalized stereotypes, especially if they wanted to share, articulate, and understand an indigenous worldview. Without the ability to articulate the Alaska Native experience, Never Alone would be dead on arrival.
Seven San Francisco police officers accused of sending racist and homophobic text messages have been suspended, and the police chief has recommended that they be fired.
It all began with a swan named Mr Asbo, who has been attacking punters on the River Cam in Cambridge for some time. His reign of terror was so bad he had to be moved to a secret location, according to Cambridge News.
Asbo was joined last summer by a swan thought to be his son Asboy, who attacked canoeists, swimmers, birds and a cow during various rampages, the paper reports.
Now a third swan, believed to be Asbo's grandson and nicknamed Asbaby, is on the scene and upholding the family tradition. He targeted tourists in a series of swim-by peckings over the Easter weekend, attempting to snatch sandwiches, water and even a handbag.
Asbaby is the worst of the bunch, if locals are to be believed.
"He is even more vicious than his father and grandfather and sticks his neck right into the punts and boats to nip passengers," Harry Crossell, 65, said.
“Two-thirds of the women interviewed, and two-thirds of the women surveyed, reported having to prove themselves over and over again – their successes discounted, their expertise questioned. “People just assume you’re not going to be able to cut it,” a statistician told us, in a typical comment. Black women were considerably more likely than other women to report having to deal with this type of bias; three-fourths of black women did. (And few Asian-American women felt that the stereotype of Asian-Americans as good at science helped them; that stereotype may well chiefly benefit Asian-American men.)”
And this is why focusing on ‘getting more girls interested in STEM’ is a wrongheaded approach. Girls ARE interested in STEM, but the douchebags who make up the majority of STEM fields are not interested in acknowledging our humanity, intelligence, and capability. Funny how they assume that’s somehow our fault too, and we must just not be interested or dedicated enough.
"While the practice of yoga may be religious in some contexts, yoga classes as taught in the district are, as the trial court determined, 'devoid of any religious, mystical, or spiritual trappings,'" the court wrote in a 3-0 opinion.
Stephen and Jennifer Sedlock and their two children had brought the lawsuit claiming yoga promoted Hinduism and inhibited Christianity. They were disappointed with the ruling and considering their options.
"No other court in the past 50 years has allowed public school officials to lead children in formal religious rituals like the Hindu liturgy of praying to, bowing to, and worshipping the sun god," attorney Dean Broyles said in a statement.
Paul V. Carelli IV, a lawyer for the district, said there were no rituals occurring in the classroom and no one was worshipping the sun or leading Hindu rites. The district said the practice is taught in a secular way to promote strength, flexibility and balance.
presumably because i have incriminating photographs of john darnielle stealing the key to the city, i was allowed to do another tour poster for the mountain goats.
the topic of the poster is werewolf.
printed by my dudes at
industry print shop in texas, available in the cities that are written
on it on the dates that the concerts happen, possibly online afterwards,
depending on how many people are too terrified to buy one in person.
i
grew up pretty obsessed with wrestling and i am of a background whose
traditions emphasize the dominance of werewolf over all other monsters, so this one was especially fun to do.
Apparently, while dining in Croatia one night, Björnsson ordered off-menu. And it wasn't some gluten-free, portion-controlled substitution either — it was seven whole roasted chickens. At an average of three pounds each, that's about 21 pounds of meat, just for an entree.
Perhaps Jackson's greatest acting achievement is his infamous portrayal of the overly literal newscaster Perd Hapley on Parks and Recreation — who says things like "Let's begin the show by starting it" and "The statement that this reporter has is a question."
"He's not dumb, he's different," Jackson says. "Perd speaks in a way that is his own world, it makes sense to him — but it's like, the kind of sense that, well, you could've done that a different way. And it's all the time."
Despite Perd's popularity, Jackson says he's still a struggling actor.
"I'm not, like, some rich guy — I'm still broke," he says. "But it's cool, though. I like it. I enjoy it because my training is from Parks and Recreation and the actors on that set."
Meeks said one "narrative" from the approximately 30-second video is that his deputy struck a pregnant woman. But another narrative, he said, is that Robinson was reaching for his weapon.
"Which narrative is correct?" he asked. "I don't know. I wasn't there."
Robinson, an Air Force veteran, was arrested on charges of assault on a public servant, resisting arrest and interfering with child custody. She spent nearly a week in jail.
"After losing a sex-discrimination lawsuit in Silicon Valley last week, Ellen Pao continues on her crusade to bring gender equality to the tech world, but this time with a focus on her home turf. As Reddit’s interim CEO, Pao said she wants to eliminate salary negotiations from the company’s hiring process. In her first interview since the lawsuit, Pao told with the Wall Street Journal Monday that the plan would help level the playing field. 'Men negotiate harder than women do and sometimes women get penalized when they do negotiate,' she said. 'So as part of our recruiting process we don’t negotiate with candidates. We come up with an offer that we think is fair. If you want more equity, we’ll let you swap a little bit of your cash salary for equity, but we aren’t going to reward people who are better negotiators with more compensation.'"
While the ’50s is famous for its family-friendly attitude, the number of hours that parents spend engaged in childcare as a primary activity has been rising ever since:
The driving force behind all this focused time is the idea that it’s good for kids. That’s why parents often feel guilty if they can’t find the time or even go so far as to quit their full-time jobs to make more time.
This assumption, however, isn’t bearing out in the science, at least not for mothers’ time. Sociologist Melissa Milkie and two colleagues just published the first longitudinal study of mothers’ time investment and child well being. They found that the time mothers spent with their children had no significant impact on their children’s academic achievement, incidence of behavioral problems, or emotional well-being.
I could literally show you 20 charts, and 19 of them would show no relationship between the amount of parents’ time and children’s outcomes… Nada. Zippo.
Benefits for adolescents, they argued, were more nuanced, but still minimal.
These findings suggest that the middle-class intensive mothering trend may be missing its mark. As Brigid Shulte comments at the Washington Post, it’s really the quality, not the quantity that counts.
The findings also offer evidence that women can work full-time, even the long hours demanded in countries like the U.S., and still be good mothers. Shulte points out that the American Academy of Pediatrics actually encourages parent-free, unstructured time. Moms just don’t need to always be there after all, freeing them up to be people, workers, partners, and whatever else they want to be, too.
