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Off to another gig Mario Anzuoni/ReutersJon Stewart opened his final episode of The Daily Show with “full-team coverage” of Thursday night’s Republican presidential debate, featuring current and returning Daily Show correspondents from throughout Stewart’s tenure, including Stephen Colbert.
Before...
Read more: The curtain falls on Jon Stewart, America's favorite jester
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Hiroshima, August 6 1945, and Nagasaki, August 9 1945. CC BY-SASeventy years ago this week, the US military revealed the greatest (and best-kept) secret of the Allied effort to win World War II.
The use of the atomic bomb proved to the world that it was indeed possible to make one.
But how had it been possible to keep the...
Read more: How American journalists covered the first use of the atomic bomb
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Pop quiz! How many of the GOP presidential candidates can you name?File/ReutersThe results are in.
Fox News has settled on the 10 Republican candidates who will do battle on the “main stage” during the first televised GOP debate.
As expected, Donald Trump will take center stage as the undisputed leader of the...
Read more: Statistics professors give Fox News a B- on their big polling test
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Levees in New Orleans were unable to prevent flooding during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.Jocelyn Augustino/FEMACoastal deltas are becoming more at risk of flooding due to land subsidence, or the gradual sinking of the Earth’s surface, and sea-level rise.
Conventional protective infrastructure, such as levees, may reduce...
Read more: Delta cities, wealthy or not, face rising risk from sinking land
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They're coming to get you.Centers For Disease Control and PreventionWhat would you do if a zombie apocalypse occurred? I recommend going to the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) zombie website for information. It is incredible (see it here).
While the zombie website is real, the CDC is not actually concerned about...
Read more: What do zombies, pandemics and the price of eggs have in common?
Americans heard about atomic bombs long before one was actually built.US Department of DefenseMilton Rothmar, an American Army corporal stationed in Italy, got the news about the Hiroshima bombing from the Armed Forces newspaper Stars and Stripes. He wrote: “The headline said ‘Atomic Bomb.’ To a person who has been raised on...
Read more: Even before Hiroshima, people knew the atomic bomb
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Neo Tokyo – the setting of the popular anime film Akira – is about to explode.
At the end of Katsuhiro Otomo’s dystopian Japanese anime film Akira, a throbbing, white mass begins to envelop Neo-Tokyo. Eventually, its swirling winds engulf the metropolis, swallowing it whole and leaving a skeleton of a...
Read more: The deep influence of the A-bomb on anime and manga
Half of the eight Ivy Leagues now have women presidents.USCPublicDiplomacy, CC BY-NDOn July 1, Elizabeth Garrett assumed the presidency of Cornell University.
With this, half of the eight-member Ivy League schools now have female presidents. Garrett joins an illustrious group: Christina Paxson (Brown University), Drew Faust (Harvard University)...
Read more: If a female president is good for the Ivy League, why not for the rest of us?
CNN and YouTube cosponsored a Republican primary presidential debate in 2007.Hans Deryk/ReutersOn Thursday evening, the largest lineup of Republican candidates in presidential campaign history will share the stage for a Fox News/Facebook-sponsored presidential debate.
That Facebook is cosponsoring the debate shows how important social media now is...
Read more: You can post debate questions on Facebook, but Fox News will decide what gets asked
Six of the 17 declared 2016 Republican U.S. presidential candidates before the start of a forum August 3, 2015. Brian Snyder/REUTERSI like speaking before senior citizen groups about my research on the American culture war. Seniors almost all recognize the PowerPoint image of the late Spiro Agnew, former vice president and “attack man”...
