March 15, 2011 archive

Regular Daily Features:

Late Night Karaoke‘s screaming What’s Going On, mishima DJs

Gha!

Six Brilliant Articles! from Six Different Places!! on Six Different Topics!!!

                Six Days a Week!!!    at Six in the Morning!!!!

Essays Featured Tuesday, March 15^th:

Tuesday Open Thoughts has puzzled thinking ofThe Ides of March

In this edition of the bi-weekly series Book Nook Xanthe reviews Excellent Women by Barbara Pym

RiaD shares thoughts on manners & cultures

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Our regular featured content-

• Six In The Morning by mishima
• On This Day In History by TheMomCat
• Punting the Pundits by TheMomCat
• Evening Edition by ek hornbeck

And these articles-

• The Week in Editorial Cartoons – Unprincipled Zealots and March Madness by JekyllnHyde
• The State of Public Education from a Student’s Perspective (My First Diary) by Phoenix
• Under the Radar: Besides an Imminent Nuclear Disaster by TheMomCat

Special live blogging of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Play In games with Master TV Bracket Table good through the 18th.

The Stars Hollow Gazette

In English.  The one John Aravosis couldn’t get to work because it’s missing a closing </embed>.

Japan radiation leaks force 140,000 indoors

‘These are figures that potentially affect health. There is no mistake about that’

msnbc.com staff and news service reports

SOMA, Japan – Dangerous levels of radiation leaking from a crippled nuclear plant forced Japan to order 140,000 people to seal themselves indoors Tuesday after an explosion and a fire dramatically escalated the 4-day-old crisis spawned by a deadly tsunami.

Adding to the mounting crisis, the international nuclear agency said a fire in a storage pond for spent nuclear fuel at a tsunami-stricken Japanese power plant had released radioactivity directly into the atmosphere.

In a nationally televised statement, Prime Minister Naoto Kan said radiation has spread from four reactors of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Fukushima state, one of the hardest-hit in Friday’s 9.0-magnitude earthquake and the ensuing tsunami that has killed more than 10,000 people, plunged millions into misery and pummeled the world’s third-largest economy .

WhatInTheFuckHasObamaDoneSoFar.com is given credit in the new movie called Lifting the Veil from the same folks that brought us “PsyWar” and “Human Resources”.

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Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple?

Predating Stonehenge by 6,000 years, Turkey’s stunning Gobekli Tepe upends the conventional view of the rise of civilization



Six miles from Urfa, an ancient city in southeastern Turkey, Klaus Schmidt has made one of the most startling archaeological discoveries of our time: massive carved stones about 11,000 years old, crafted and arranged by prehistoric people who had not yet developed metal tools or even pottery. The megaliths predate Stonehenge by some 6,000 years. The place is called Gobekli Tepe, and Schmidt, a German archaeologist who has been working here more than a decade, is convinced it’s the site of the world’s oldest temple.

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originally posted at firefly-dreaming