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What Myths About the Anthropocene Get Wrong
Smithsonian Magazine· 6 days agoThe concept of the Anthropocene epoch was born in February 2000 out of a moment of spontaneity. Chemist and Nobel Prize winner Paul Crutzen had been...
Theater Comes to the Former Bell Labs Complex
The New York Observer· 5 days agoFor decades, a two-million-square-foot building in New Jersey’s Holmdel township was the telecommunications innovation headquarters of the world....
With public universities under threat, massive protests against austerity shake Argentina
Stamford Advocate· 6 hours agoRaising their textbooks and diplomas and singing the national anthem, hundreds of thousands of...
Netflix releases teaser for '100 Years of Solitude'
AFP via Yahoo News· 7 days agoNetflix on Wednesday released a sneak peek of its TV series adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude," coinciding with the...
Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Here’s the beef with this minimum-wage cartoon
Washington Post· 5 days agoEvery week, The Post runs a collection of letters of readers’ grievances — pointing out grammatical...
Leading Off: Nobel Prize-nominated comedian will have plenty to say in Lincoln
Lincoln Journal Star· 4 days agoStand-up comic Steve Hofstetter, who has the distinction of being nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize...
Gaskin: MIT alum horrified by school’s antisemitism grade
Boston Herald· 4 days agoAt MIT, an F would mean you turned in a blank exam book. When I watched the presidents of these...
References in Taylor Swift's The Tortured Poets Department
Time via Yahoo News· 5 days ago(Like Dylan Thomas, she also spent some time at the Chelsea Hotel, but we’ll save that for a little...
On This Day in History - April 23rd - Almanac - UPI.com
UPI· 1 day agoOn April 23, 1940, a fire at the Rhythm Club in Natchez, Miss., claimed the lives of 209 people, all...
Startup launched by 3 UC scientists, including husband of Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna, hires CEO...
The Business Journals· 6 days agoA Peninsula startup formed by three University of California scientists — including the husband of Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna — and backed by a venture capital firm backing a number of young ...