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Larvae tacos and caramelized mealworm icecream are on the menu at a new food cart in San Francisco. Chef Monica Martínez told PRI’s The World...
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Simon Garfield explores the peculiar history of typefaces in his new book, Just My Type: A Book...
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Mr Ratburn runs the blog I wish I ran.
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mayerthorn asked: im in a journalism type news class in college right now. my teacher whos a fairly well established journalist who was a correspondent for CNN and such told all of us about 5 minutes in on the first day that getting a degree in journalism was unnecessary. He said "learn to write and study the international community like an int. studies degree, youll be better off." true or false in your opinion. Im a big fan of culture dynamics and want to work for a culture/news blog some day or start my own. I read the atlantic on my tumblr almost daily and wanted to know what you thought?
I say false. But I’m sure I could find you a handful of people in the office that would disagree with me. There are a lot of different ways into...
OH MY GOSH - A SINGLE RAINBOW!
Oh wait, it’s just a double rainbow. This one happened this morning in London.
Photograph by: LEON NEAL, Getty Images
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While it’s been over two decades since the Berlin Wall came down, the German government plans to mark the 50th anniversary of its construction. The wall went up on August 13, 1961.
More photos.
New graduates of a Palestinian Hamas military camp, ages 12-18, perform mock exercises during a graduation ceremony in Gaza City, on July 29, 2011. Credit: MOHAMMED ABED/AFP/Getty Images
In 1927, aviation icon Charles Lindbergh turned up his nose at flying into Vancouver as part of a North American tour marking his epic New York-to-Paris flight because “there was no field fit to land on.” Their invitation rejected, the city fathers were stung into action and four years later, on July 22, 1931, the Vancouver airport was officially opened on Sea Island with a hard-surfaced runway, the first in Canada. So there, Charles.
More: Vancouver Airport turns 80.
Photos of the day: July 20, 2011.
Three bombs rocked crowded districts of Mumbai during rush hour on Wednesday, killing at least 21 people in the biggest militant attack on India’s financial capital since 2008 assaults blamed on Pakistan-based militants.
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Indian rescue personnel and bystanders survey the scene of a train accident in the village of Bhatkuchi, some 70kms from Guwahati early July 11, 2011. An explosion hit the train in the northeastern state of Assam, but police were unable to say whether the blast was caused by separatist militants active in the area. No fatalities were reported in that incident but 20 of the 100 injured were described by police as being in a serious condition. The Guwahati-Puri Express was nearing Ghograpara, some 70 kilometres from Assam’s main city of Guwahati, when the blast struck. Both the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militants are active in the region, but the cause of the explosion was not known. Photograph by: STRDEL, AFP/Getty
“Picture was taken on July 2 at the N-W corner of parking lot after our family returned from ski trip on Mt Seymour. It proves the accuracy of BC Parks signage!”
Submitted by Zdenek (Dennis) Vacha, Burnaby, BC
The Vancouver Sun was sent exclusive video of what really happened to the couple in Richard Lam’s famous “Riot Kiss” photo, taken during the Vancouver riot on Wednesday.
A couple kiss during the riots in Vancouver on June 16, 2011. Richard Lam/Getty Images
Here’s an interview with the photographer.
Eighteen-day-old pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis or Hexaprotodon liberiensis) makes his first public appearance with its 29-year-old mother Dina at the Bratislava zoo on May 24, 2011. The father is four-year-old Paul brought from the Berlin at the age of one. Photograph by: JOE KLAMAR, AFP/Getty Images
