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Fred Doyle on the radio – October 22, 2011
Fred Doyle returned to the radio airwaves today: [youtube]ujqVi2Ucg08[/youtube]
Read More »Head of the Charles & Harvard football
I spent this afternoon in Cambridge and caught some of the Head of the Charles Regatta and the Princeton at Harvard football game which Harvard won, 56-39. Here’s a brief video slideshow: [youtube]pepWo167gcc[/youtube]
Read More »Babylon
This is a reproduction of the Ishtar Gate built by King Nebuchadnezzar II at the entrance to Babylon about 600 years before Jesus of Nazareth was born. You can’t see it in Iraq these days, but there’s a version in a German museum that was built in the 1930s from remains…
Read More »Charles Blow of NYT: ‘Occupy’ = Cool
October 22, 2011
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PaulM
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With more polls showing the public sympathizes with the general goals of the “Occupy” movement, Charles Blow of the NYTimes today takes a cultural cut at the activity to try to figure out why this thing isn’t going away quickly. He suggests that it has attained that mysterious quality of…
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