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Though NASA’s plans for manned spaceflight going forward are slim, it is exploring its options for using Curiosity-style unmanned robots in future missions. One such potential undertaking, recently confirmed by researchers at the Keck Institute for Space Studies, would involve sending a flying robot into space to wrangle a small asteroid, put it inside a […]
“In Russia, graves are ridiculous!” I swear, if I see anyone reposting these and writing that, I will personally smack them. I will find them IRL and smack them. And so. Not all Russian graves have swag, but when they do… A certain Russian blogger has recently rehashed these marvels. He presents them as opulent post-mortem totems to […]
The Fiscal Cliff compromise deal–which averted the crisis at hand, but was felt by many in Washington to be a bit of a cop-out–diverted attention away from one of the other most important issues of our day: federal relief for states pummeled by Hurricane Sandy. In the flurry of activity over the fiscal deal, House […]
So, there’s a bit of fuss over semi-retired Italian prankster-artist Maurizio Cattelan’s HIM… again. The 2001 sculpture of Adolf Hitler was recently installed in a former Warsaw ghetto alley. It can only be viewed through a small peephole in a rotting gate, looking like a small praying boy. Poland’s chief rabbi Michael Schudrich approved the installation for […]
In a year of a historically terrible storm, an Empire State Building shooting, questionable practices by the police department, handsy and racist Times Square mascots, an epically polluted waterway, several exotic animals running wild, hazardously mislabeled raw fish, a disgusting monster that washed up on the shores of the East River, record arrest numbers, a ban […]
Kurt, Hell’s Kitchen. (Photo: ANIMALNewYork) […]
