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The 10 Highest Grossing (Worldwide) Films Of 2012

The Hollywood Reporter listed the top 20 of the year a few days ago, but let's zoom in on their big 10--the ones that really rocked the box office, a handful of them going over the billion mark! Bear in mind that some of these epics are still playing, so they'll be racking in even more dough. (I've ... More >>

Frankenstorm Unleashes Tidal Wave Of PR Sluttiness

Do you happen to be a PR stooge who represents a climatologist, weather expert, hurricane survivor, or pretty much anyone who's ever encountered rain? If so, you probably sent out an email today to every media outlet in New York City trying to exploit what could potentially be a devastating natural ... More >>

Jake Gyllenhaal Stars in Nick Payne's Roundabout Play

Arctic Expert Predicts Final Collapse Of Sea Ice Within Four Years!

Around the same time that Obama's second term will be coming to an end, the world will become wetter than Axl Rose's arm pits during a reunion tour. What a ghastly moment that will be! And this isn't just hearsay. A noted expert swears that a global disaster is in the making, and the sea ice is a ... More >>

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Q&A: Melissa F. Clarke On Traveling To Greenland By Boat, The Kickstarter Model, And Hyperawareness

The discogs.com entry for Melissa F. Clarke is mercilessly brief, and with good reason. This New York-based sound artist doesn't go in for headphone music; she crafts immersive, science-fueled audio/visual experiences that demand observation of the interplay between images and sonics, like the haunt ... More >>

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Ice Age: Continental Drift

Dinosaurs in NYC! U.S. Government Seizes T-Rex Remains From Florida Man

Sometimes, on a beautiful Saturday, we find a story like this that makes the day even better.This past week, the head paleontologist at the Museum of Natural History, Mark Norell, noticed a small auction with a listing that should have probably not been there. The auction item was a 11-million-year- ... More >>

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Lights Off for Earth Hour? Rightbloggers Leave Lights On, Declare Victory Over So-Called "Environment"

Conservatism is making a big comeback, folks. The proof? The tremendous success of Human Achievement Hour on Saturday. What, you never heard of it? Well, you've heard of Earth Hour, right? That thing where all the stupid hippies turned their lights off for an hour to celebrate their precious, so-ca ... More >>

Democracy Then: Portrait of Ousted Mohamed Nasheed in The Island President

Start Bracing for Solar Storms

​The magnetic storm that has been developing on the Sun's surface may cause problems down here on Earth soon. Reuters reports that above average solar activity is proving to be a real concern for the Space Weather Prediction Center. They warn that communications and GPS satellites could be aff ... More >>

Joe Morris & Agusti Fernandez

Bringing Up Baby

Josh Capon of Burger & Barrel on Kitchen Hardships and Being an Oceanographer (In Another Life): Interview Part 2

Photo courtesy Josh CaponBe happy Josh Capon became a chef and not an oceanographer.​ Yesterday we spoke with Josh Capon of Lure Fishbar and Burger & Barrel about the secret of a good burger (every bite should taste the same). Today he tells us about being on the small screen and reveals wher ... More >>

Rightbloggers Find the Lesson of the Japanese Disaster: We Need More Nuclear Power Plants! (Plus Obama Sux!)

Last week Japan was hit by earthquake, tsunami, and volcano. As the country tries to come back from this series of disasters, donations are pouring in from world citizens. Rightbloggers are doing their part, too. They're using the catastrophe as a teachable moment to explain that Obama sucks, glob ... More >>

Enemy of Climate Consensus Gets a Soapbox in Cool It

The Five Worst Rick Sanchez Moments (Video)

​Rick Sanchez probably just deep-sixed his career this morning on the radio. This has been a long time coming, because Rick Sanchez is a terribly unlikeable news anchor, something he has proven time and time again. Rick Sanchez is so unlikable, he even makes completely sensible people go, "Hmm ... More >>

Chapterhouse

Oil Plume in the Gulf Exists to Spite Tony Hayward

​Here's a new word, everybody! Let's all say it together: Plume. Doesn't that just roll off the tongue, all slick and oily? Despite what you might think, it doesn't mean the feather in a dapper man's cap, or a particularly French shade of plum. It's the latest in our ongoing explorations with ... More >>

Of Tarballs and Permission Passes: The BP Oil Disaster Rages Forward

​BP's underwater oil geyser that's spewing the black bile of the earth into the ocean at a few thousand gallons a day is still working! In fact, it's working so well that byproducts have started to wash up on the shores of Key West: like those beautiful treasures of the ocean, sea shells, exce ... More >>

Two New Perspectives: How Locavores Are Getting It Wrong

If you're among those trying to eat locally and sustainably, you may have to rethink your strategy. Two recent editorial pieces offer new perspectives on eating green. According to a National Post article, eating global may be less harmful to the earth than eating local: "Locally grown food, in many ... More >>

Robin Thicke

DJ Spooky Goes Glacial

BAM unveils a new Antarctic symphony

Angus Third-Pounder Boosts Mickey D's Sales; Snyder's to Buy Utz

​Dr. Siegal's Cookie Diet involves eating six prepackaged cookies a day, plus one healthy "real" meal. Some 500,000 people have lost weight on the plan -- and how can you not on 800-1,000 calories a day? [NY Times] Snyder's of Hanover is planning to acquire potato chips producer Utz. Snyder's ... More >>

Rain, Rain, Go Away!

I'm sitting here in my solarium thinking there is something seriously screwed up about the weather. You can attribute it to something other than global climate change if you want, but this business of it raining every day is aggressively strange. And not steady rains, either, but instantaneous downp ... More >>

Earth Day Prompts Green Talk; Big Ag No Fan of White House Garden

A new study shows that the more choice we have, the more likely we are to opt for unhealthy foods. Fries or salad? Er, what do you think? [CBC] Michelle Obama has incurred the wrath of Big Agriculture by aligning herself with the locavore movement. The Mid-America CropLife Association (MACA) wrote ... More >>

Bad News for Fast Food As Stocks Drop & Schools Say "Stay Away"

Researchers have found that, as the Arctic continues to get warmer, mercury levels in seals and beluga whales, which are eaten by the Inuit in far northern Canada, have reached levels that would be considered unsafe for fish. [New Scientist] Lobster wasn't always considered the fanciest thing on th ... More >>

Tony Scherr

Werner Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World Now On View

WCBS: Student Bloggers Are Students and Are Blogging

Test Tube Meat?

Damn You, Environment!

The ice caps are melting, the ozone depleting, and Leo's charisma? An endangered species.

Winos to Global Warming: Thanks a Lot

The Dark Side of Summer

Turn off your air conditioners. Take a cue from a camel. Lay off the ice cream. And other advice for surviving a 'heat island'

The Starting Line

At Baruch, campus entrepreneurs scratch their itch to get businesses off the ground

The Director's Take

Davis Guggenheim captures the ideals of the 'former next president'

Horoscope

'Proteus: A Nineteenth Century Vision'

Dean Takes Over

Blasted by the pundits, the Democrats' new party chair can't be all bad

The November Surprises

After a year-long campaign, America now discovers what the election was really about

Divine Inspiration

The president blesses storm victims, calls forth wrath against Kerry

Perfect Storms

Perfect for wrecking any chance of economic recovery, that is

The Best (and Worst) of Cannes's Latin American Undercurrent

Fuguet's Memory Palace has a Gabriel García Marquee

Nation

Nam de Plume