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The below message was forwarded to us by Tom Waits and his wife Kathleen. Billy Lee Riley is one of the original rock and rollers. His song “Flying Saucers Rock and Roll” is simply amazing. I first heard a version by Robert Gordon with the legendary Link Wray playing guitar and it blew my mind. [...]

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Now that I have begun to ride a bike on the streets of Los Angeles (under the skilled and patient tutelage of Brett Gurewitz) this concept seems unfortunately relevant. Ghost Bikes are both artistic memorials and visual protests for bicyclists hit on the street. A bike is painted white and locked to a street sign [...]

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(Guardian)
Proof that individuals can still do some serious good in this world. After years of trying, Josh Silver, a professor of physics at Oxford University, has come up with a way to give sight to the world’s poorest residents. To do this, Silver has created a pair of self adjusting glasses which can correct [...]

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Thanks Forscher
An Asian elephant that became addicted to heroin will return home after a three-year rehab program, Chinese state media said Thursday. Xiguang, a 4-year-old male Asian elephant, became addicted after he was captured by smugglers along the Chinese-Myanmar border in March 2005. The traders fed the elephant bananas laced with heroin as bait and [...]

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(Wally)
Yesterday I read a news story that induced a momentary fantasy followed by a swirling internal debate. A woman paid the Korean bio-tech company RNL Bio to clone five puppies from her deceased dog.
You see my beloved little terrorizer, Wally, is getting old. Her sight is fuzzy, she has a large goiter on her neck and recently battled her way back [...]

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Michael Franti, musician and yoga devotee was recently able to combine the two when he assisted a yoga practice at the Rothbury music festival. On August 3rd, Michael will also co-host an afternoon of yoga in San Francisco to benefit his Power to the Peaceful festival and organization.
“Say Hey,” a brand new track from [...]

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Note: In my continued effort to keep the readers of this esteemed blog up to date on the latest scientific developments, I offer the below story. Now some more cynical elements may accuse me of playing for a cheap laugh. Let me assure you, nothing could be further from the truth. This is entirely about [...]

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Several weeks ago I introduced you to chess boxing. In my never-ending quest to broaden your sporting horizons, I now give you the regal sport of Wife Carrying.
A brief description: 
Wife Carrying is a sport in which male competitors race while each carrying a female teammate. The objective is for the male to carry the female through a special obstacle track in [...]

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A brilliant new project by design student Revital Cohen at the Royal College of Art’s London Summer Show proposes the fascinating and inflammatory concept of turning animals into external medical devices.
The artist explains: “Assistance animals – from guide dogs to psychiatric service cats – unlike computerized machines, can establish a natural symbiosis with the patients who [...]

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