Month: September 2014
Watch this Auralnauts edit of the final scene of Star Wars sans John Williams’ score. The other sounds are dubbed in. No longer drowned out by orchestral pomp of the original, these simulated claps, creaks and Chewbacca yelps… aren’t they awkward? And isn’t it awkward, that coy look Princess Leia gives Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, even though she doesn’t know she […]
The scientific community continues to embrace tentatively hug psychedelic therapy, and with good cause. In a new Johns Hopkins University study published in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, “just two or three experiences” tripping on mushrooms helped a dozen volunteers struggling with a long-term smoking addiction quit. The success rate is twice that of “the gold standard medication”/Big Pharma cessation aids like Pfizer Inc.’s Chantix. […]
In 2012, suicide was the second biggest cause of death for people aged 15 to 29 worldwide. A recent study from the World Health Organization provided comparative suicide rates by country. Those with the most suicides per 100,000 people included Russia and surrounding countries, North Korea, India and Japan. More than 800,000 people committed suicide in 2012, according to the WHO report. […]
Archeologists recently found out that Stonehenge was once a complete circle, destroying long held beliefs about the enigmatically placed stones. Now, there has been an even bigger discovery. Using high tech magnetometers — “advanced metal detectors — ground-penetrating radar, electromagnetic sensors and three-dimensional laser scanners,” scientists were able to peek beneath the ground surrounding the site for the first time. […]
“If you want to hang on to mistakes I made 25 years ago, that’s your prerogative,” Jordan Belfort — the rich asshole Leonardo DiCaprio played in The Wolf Of Wall Street — told a packed auditorium run by the 92nd Street Y and NYU’s School of Law on Wednesday night. But he’s also really sorry. After ratting out […]
A NYC councilman has proposed an online governmental petition service for residents. Modeled on the White House’s popular online petitions website We The People, the service would require a reply from the city if a petition reached a predetermined number of signatures. “Not everyone can go to a public hearing,” said the bill’s author James Vacca. “This […]
A few weeks ago the city’s health department warned residents of Bensonhurt that their neighborhood was on the precipice of a rabies outbreak. Now the spread of the fatal disease is serious enough that wildlife biologists are headed to Brooklyn and Queens to try and stop its spread. Back on August 21, DNAInfo reported that […]
Phil, Union Square. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]
QUEEN ANDREA, Bushwick. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
Members of the Westboro Baptist Church typically hate everything and everyone: “fags,” Joan Rivers (RIP), dead soldiers, bomb victims, the space shuttle Challenger, etc. But when it comes to the iPhone 6, they’re just as guilty of fanboyism as the sinners they condemn. The fringe Christian group is in New York right now preaching God’s […]
