2014年8月16日 星期六

2014-08-17 U.S. Spotlight


It's a Shark GIF-a-Palooza: Photos  Discovery News
Shark Week may be ending tonight, but that doesn't mean you can't give yourself a few more shocks in advance, with these GIFs from an underwater nightmare. Enjoy! See you next year for another week of shark fun and fright. Mako shark. DCI ...


   


Watch: Harvard scientists develop tiny robots that can swarm  PBS NewsHour
Borrowing a page out of nature's handbook, a team of researchers at Harvard University have developed a fleet of miniscule robots that can arrange themselves into complex configurations without the use of a core artificial intelligence. Equal parts automaton ...


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A Jewish Matchmaker Whose Hand Led Hundreds Down the Aisle  New York Times
PITTSBURGH — When I walked into Tova Weinberg's large house here in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, she looked me up and down and asked, “Are you Jewish?” I told her I was. “Are you married?” Yes, I said. That was, apparently, the wrong ...


   

  Fox News   
Top Dem Axelrod appears to support Perry, says indictment seems 'sketchy'  Fox News
Texas GOP Gov. Rick Perry after being indicted this weekend got support Saturday from one of the country's most powerful Democrats-- former President Obama political adviser David Axelrod-- who tweeted that the charge seems "sketchy." Perry, a 2012 ...


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  TIME   
How Lauren Bacall Got to Dine with President Clinton at a TIME Gala  TIME
I'm at least 84% sure this story is accurate. Eighty-four percent because I was in the room at the time, the other 16% because I didn't see what happened but only heard about it. Even if the anecdote is not red-check true, it provides tantalizing support to the ...


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Gov. Rick Perry of Texas Is Indicted on Charge of Abuse of Power  New York Times
AUSTIN, Tex. — A grand jury indicted Gov. Rick Perry on two felony counts on Friday, charging that he abused his power last year when he tried to pressure the district attorney here, a Democrat, to step down by threatening to cut off state financing to her office ...


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Behind the indictment: Did Texas Gov. Rick Perry abuse the power of his office?  PBS NewsHour
One day after a grand jury indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry on two felony counts, charging that he abused the power of his office last year, questions remain about the governor's actions and what comes next. Tony Plohetski of the Austin American-Statesman ...


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  National Geographic   
Q&A: An Ecologist's Passion for Preserving the Ocean's Pristine Places  National Geographic
National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Enric Sala leads a project that aims to identify and protect the world's most unspoiled marine environments. A photo of Oceanographer Enric Sala. Oceanographer Enric Sala—a National Geographic ...


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Anti-Semitism Stirs in Latin America  New York Times
MEXICO CITY — Besides its grim toll in human misery and ever more bitter divisions, the war in Gaza has awakened the sleeping monster of anti-Semitism in Europe. I would not say the same for Latin America, though there are signs that the beast is perhaps ...


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Lord of the Rings Physics Homework  Wired
I don't think I am going to give any Lord of the Rings spoilers here. The books are over 50 years old and even the first movie (the Peter Jackson version) was released in 2001. So let me just say that at one point, Gandalf fights a monster and essentially dies.

   

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