33 million people watched Senator Obama’s half-hour sales pitch, according to Nielsen Media Research. In contrast, the Philadelphia-Tampa Bay World Series was the least watched in television history. There is no real correlation here – outside of numbers and desires and an intrinsic Darwinism that is looming larger in American culture. There are more […]
Political Sex Scandals: Obama, McCain & Palin
Many politicians have fallen from grace with their trousers at their ankles. We know about couldn’t-keep-it-in-his-pants adulterer John Edwards and cookie cutter practitioners of inappropriate conduct like Arnold Schwarzenegger. New York’s very own Client #9, Eliot Spitzer, pinned down prostituteAshley Dupré. David Vitter and Randall L. Tobias’ numbers were jotted in D.C. Madam’s books. Boys, boys, boys. Gotta love […]
Celebrities in the Kitchen: 16 Famous People Who Have Been Chefs or Cooks
Here’s a list of famous actors, artists, film directors, and other celebrities who have been either been chefs or cooks or are passionate about cooking. Quite a few of the names will surprise you. 16 Celebrities Who’ve Worked Professionally as Chefs or Cooks Sebastian Cabot: Actor Played Mr. French on the TV series, Family Affair […]
Randy Pausch, Last Lecture Professor, Dies at 47
Randy Pausch, a terminally ill computer science teacher at Carnegie Mellon who became famous for his "last lecture" about realizing one’s dreams, died at age 47. Randy Pausch’s one hour and 15 minute lecture has logged over three million views on YouTube since it was posted in December of 2007. At the time of the recording […]
Argentinian Students Chain Themselves to Demand Better School
Posted by Juliana Rincón Parra to Global Voices Online In the province of Rio Negro near the city of General Roca in Argentina, the students of the CEM 106 are asking the government to follow through with their promises of solving the problems their school has. Videos of the open sewage drains in front of […]
Learning to Document the Victims of Conflicts
Sarajevo seminar attempts to draw lessons from different countries’ approaches to identifying the victims of rights abuses. By Lara Nettelfield in Sarajevo When the call to prayer sounded at 10:45pm on a balmy Sarajevo night, Muhammad Jafar of Banda Aceh knew all of the words flowing from the city’s mosques. But he was in Bosnia […]