Tom Waits new compilation “Orphans” is out and The Rolling Stone reviewed it: When Tom Waits claims he doesn’t know why he called this three-CD set Orphans, he’s being cagey. Orphans obviously began as an outtakes collection — unreleased work tapes plus old soundtrack, tribute and benefit tracks. Only then, Waits, painfully aware that odds-and-sods […]
Essay by Richard Dawkins A guided missile corrects its trajectory as it flies, homing in, say, on the heat of a jet plane’s exhaust. A great improvement on a simple ballistic shell, it still cannot discriminate particular targets. It could not zero in on a designated New York skyscraper if launched from as far away […]
The black dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in her legendary classic movie “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” has been sold for 410,000 Pounds on Tuesday. Fancy!
NASA today unleashed its “squirting gun” by making bold claims about the presence of very liquid, very flowing water on Mars. Photographs taken over the past seven years reveal changes in Mars’ landscape that seem to indicate the presence of an underground water supply. The subsurface “water” has crept up to feed two gullies clearly […]