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February 19, 2013While the corpses of corporate music retail chains litter strip malls where outlets like Tower Records and Blockbuster Music once stood, Amoeba Music is an independent juggernaut with three California-based stores the size of supermarkets. They've been a celebrated shopping destination for music afi ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 28, 2012Voice Choices
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July 18, 2012Blogs
June 23, 2012Sometimes, 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 >>
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May 30, 2012NBC reports that Peter Dinklage, the 42-year-old Game of Thrones star who's been a vegetarian since he was a teenager, will spend the show's off-season as a national spokesman for Farm Sanctuary's Walk for Farm Animals.
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May 30, 2012Voice Choices
May 16, 2012Blogs
May 2, 2012Barbra's half sister Roslyn Kind has a strong, lovely voice, which she applied to a series of standards at Brooklyn College the other night--everything from "All That Jazz" to "Losing My Mind" to "Meadowlark" and beyond.
And she's funny, too.
Roslyn remarked, "Apple created the best phone ever, an ... More >>
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February 21, 2012A dead baby dolphin washed up on the Queens shoreline, and scientists think the infant might be part of a lager group that had recently been stranded off the Cape Cod coast.
Officials from the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation told the New York Daily News that the 3-foot d ... More >>
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January 9, 2012Shit just got real in the world of genetics. Like Jurassic Park -bringing-monsters-back-from-extinction real, just without Jeff Goldblum.
Scientists have determined that a sub-species of Galapagos Islands tortoise -- long thought to be dead and gone -- might actually still kinda exist.
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November 22, 2011A team of scientists has recently given alcoholics another excuse not to seek help.
Swedish researchers claim to have found a genetic link between alcoholism and premature death, according to a recently released report.
Alcoholics everywhere have reacted positively to the research, since it sugg ... More >>
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November 16, 2011Voice Choices
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September 6, 2011They've come for us.Looks like Charlton Heston may have been on to something.
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June 8, 2011Blogs
May 22, 2011​Cornell University researchers are about to begin studying the stem cells of a dozen elderly Jewish New Yorkers to figure out how they manage to live so long. There's evidence of a "longevity gene" which protects against heart disease and cancer; a lot of these seniors are living to 100 despite b ... More >>
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April 14, 2011via Jim BahnDucks' semen is pretty special, but you already knew that. It has the ability to kill bacteria that damages sperm and causes disease. The BBC reports that scientists have now found that male ducks with more vibrant bills have semen that is more effective at killing bacteria than d ... More >>
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February 15, 2011Scratch what you've heard about ecstasy being bad for the brain. Tests that found nonusers more mentally competent than users are now being called "flawed," according to a press release today from the science journal Addiction, which says "the experiments overstated the cognitive differences" ... More >>
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February 2, 2011MMagnetic attraction is more than just chemistry
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January 6, 2011Jenny McCarthy is wrongA British study claiming that autism could be contracted from childhood vaccines, a cause championed most famously by actress Jenny McCarthy, has already been deemed a scientific mess full of errors, but a new report from a British medical journal contends that its inte ... More >>
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October 13, 2010Jerry Seinfeld directs Colin Quinn's solo show
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October 1, 2010Just when you thought there was a statue of limitations regarding that unfortunate "crabs incident" of 1996, the U.S. has gone ahead and sort of done the right thing, owning up to having purposely infected Guatemalans (without their knowledge or consent, obvi) with sexually transmitted diseas ... More >>
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September 13, 2010Guess what? There's a new gene identified that can turn bacteria into superbugs resistant to almost all antibiotics out there, according to health officials. It's sickened three people in the U.S. -- in California, Massachusetts, and Illinois -- and two in Canada. All of them had recently got ... More >>
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July 6, 2010HERE presents Sweet, Sweet Motherhood
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December 29, 2009Blogs
August 19, 2009woodleywonderworks/flickrThe Huffington Post has an interesting piece on how getting down and dirty with nature in, for example, a vegetable garden can keep us emotionally healthy.
The microbes in dirt, apparently, affect the same neurons that are stimulated by Prozac. A British study from a ... More >>
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April 22, 2009Blogs
April 15, 2009Photo by jere_me @ FlickrThe New York Times may have appended its recent op-ed piece on how small farm pork may be more prone to contamination than its industrially raised counterpart, but readers haven't quite yet recovered from the episode. And neither has the op-ed's author.
James McWilliams cit ... More >>
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March 4, 2009Blogs
February 5, 2009
Killinger! The Rainbow/Seagreen Case
Author: P.K. Palmer
Publisher: Pinnacle Press, New York
Date: 1974
Discovered at: Goodwill
The Cover Promises: Lord, where to start? With "He's ruggedly virile, he's karate-quick"? With the fact that he likes his ladies not just topless but nippleless, t ... More >>
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January 21, 2009Punk doesn't run on nothing
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September 10, 2008Film
April 15, 2008Spending that Ferris Bueller capital
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February 26, 2008Jurassic Park brought to life in Brooklyn
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February 26, 2008News
January 1, 2008Hide the blackfish! State agents raid Chinese restaurants for puny, but tasty, swimmers
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January 25, 2005Books
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November 18, 2003In the genetic chamber of horrors, normality is skin-deep—and immortality will kill you
Art
May 6, 2003Investigating Imperialism With Julian LaVerdiere
Art
August 6, 2002Music
July 30, 2002News
October 23, 2001The Difficulties of Decontamination
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June 26, 2001Scientists Plan First Ever Release of Genetically Modified Bugs
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October 5, 1999News
August 10, 1999Wade Boggs: Fowl Food for Fair Balls
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July 7, 1998A new book revisits shocking experiments on Pennsylvania prisoners
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June 23, 1998AIDS Drugs Cause Scary Side Effects--And Spark Interest in New Treatment Strategies
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