science

No More "Mind Your Beeswax?"

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Just what the world needs, another mysterious and potentially disastrous problem to deal with. The issue at hand is that tens of billions of bees are lost and can’t find their way home to their hives. Why should you care? Well, honeybees are arguably the insects that are most important to the human food chain […]

politics

In Memorium: Liviu Librescu

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The sad, tragic and horrible irony of how a Holocaust survivor, a man who then survived Communism in Romania, died in America by a hand gun is not lost on me nor has it been lost on the rest of the world. Professor Librescu died after he threw his body in front of the door […]

literature

New Tolkien! New Tolkien!

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The first new book in almost 30 years by J.R.R. Tolkien (since 1977’s Silmarillion) has been published and as George put it, “It’s like he’s Tupac!” I mean, Tolkien passed away in 1973 and while the Silmarillion was published posthumously, it was only 4 years after his death. Now comes The Children of Hurin, almost […]

ramblings

New Meaning To "Bad Day At The Office "

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It’s definitely not elegant but all I have to say is “holy fuck”: This copy is a direct lift: A crocodile at a zoo in the southern Taiwan city of Kaohsiung holds the forearm of a zoo veterinarian in between its teeth, April 11, 2007. The crocodile bit off the arm of the zoo veterinarian […]

music

Sad Kermit

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To start off, ever since video sites started to provide embed code that makes it super easy for someone to add video to their site, I have been adding video left and right to my site. I hope it has improved things at WGTCTIP2 – I think it has… In keeping with my trend of […]

sports

The Best Worst Sports Songt

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“One Shining Moment,” the uber-cheesy song that CBS plays at the conclusion of the NCAA men’s basketball championship, known to all now as “March Madness,” has finally taken a life of its own and not just because it has its own website. If you are not aware that this song exists, at the very end […]

television

The Snuke

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Every time I see a funny South Park episode, I ask myself “why aren’t I taping this show?” Well, this past Wednesday night I watched a new episode titled “The Snuke” which confirmed that this show is still one of if not the funniest shows on tv, period. I laughed so hard it was hurting, […]

television

This American Life is now on TV

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The extremely popular NPR radio show This American Life debuted its first-ever television show on Showtime on March 22nd but I don’t get Showtime so I didn’t see it (no, I didn’t grab it from bit torrent and watch it on my computer – believe it or not, I don’t do that, mostly because I […]

sports

We Are…Georgetown!

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That was the chant heard throughout East Rutherford yesterday as Georgetown remarkably and ridiculously came back against North Carolina to win the East Regional in the NCAA tournament in overtime. They will be playing in the Final Four next weekend. I’ve been waiting for whole life for this moment. Seriously. I became a Hoya fanatic […]