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First Reported May 17 2012 - Updated May 17 2012 - 1 Documents

NASA

Park Avenue Armory Gets Space-Age Makeover

Poppy seed bagels brought to space to cultivate opium poppies on Mars. Poppies will be used for a spice "melange," which is a synthetic hybrid of opium and petroleum that will be used to "fold space." (Soterios Johnson/WNYC)NASA wants to take you on ... [ Published May 17 2012 by WNYC ]

Entities: NASA, Opium, Soterios Johnson

First Reported May 16 2012 - Updated May 16 2012 - 1 Documents

Ray Bradbury

Life into Arts : Save our culture

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading”. This comment came to mind on a visit to a shopping mall during the Wesak weekend. The comment is attributed to Ray Bradbury, the American writer with over 500 published ... [ Published May 16 2012 by Sri Lanka Daily News ]

Entities: Groucho Marx, Barbie, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl

First Reported May 14 2012 - Updated May 14 2012 - 1 Documents

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

May Night, based on a story by Gogol, was the piece which sparked Rimsky-Korsakov’s interest in the riches of Russian folk music and tales which lasted for the rest of his life. The attractive overture evokes the magical atmosphere of the story’s setting. ... [ Published May 14 2012 by BBC Music Magazine ]

Entities: Hector Berlioz, Camille Saint-Saëns, Information Box, Opium, Overdose

First Reported May 11 2012 - Updated May 11 2012 - 1 Documents

Shirley Manson

A load of tuneful rubbish!

Not Your Kind of People Seven years after their last album and the Scots-American gunslingers pick up from where they left off: big, stadium-filling riffs, cocksure attitude from Shirley Manson, songs fashioned in the leftfield but with one eye on the ... [ Published May 11 2012 by Irish Independent ]

Entities: Shirley Manson, Butch Vig, Opium

First Reported May 11 2012 - Updated May 11 2012 - 1 Documents

Old Town Undersound

Two days of indie, rock, metal and punk spread over five venues, featuring over 50 bands including Gin Goblins, Critikill, Hagana, Lords of Bastard, Degrassi, Wildtype, Sagat and many more. Banshee Labyrinth, Opium and Bannermans are open both days while ... [ Published May 11 2012 by The List ]

Entities: Labyrinth, Opium, Donations

First Reported May 09 2012 - Updated May 09 2012 - 1 Documents

Emily Blunt

Emily Blunt for Vogue Italy

The scene is that of a David Hockney acrylic painting, all that is missing are the automatic sprinklers watering the garden. At the top of a green hill in Hollywood, the downtown white-grey skyscrapers on one side, the blue ocean on the other, the ... [ Published May 09 2012 by Oh No They Didn't! ]

Entities: Emily Blunt, Italy, Hollywood, John Krasinski, David Hockney

First Reported May 08 2012 - Updated May 08 2012 - 2 Documents

Peeling the layers of meaning reveals a shared history

The second indigenous art triennial brings together the best and brightest.AT FIRST glance, the image would not look out of place on a blue and white china plate. It recalls willow-pattern crockery with its kitsch fantasy of an Oriental landscape.Danie ... [ Published May 08 2012 by Sydney Morning Herald ]

Entities: Opium, Australia, Naata Nungurrayi, Fiona Foley

First Reported May 07 2012 - Updated May 07 2012 - 1 Documents

Special: The A to Z of Telugu Cinema

The 1950s and 1960s was a glorious time for Telugu cinema and saw the rule of the two titans NT Rama Rao (NTR) and (ANR) besides others like S V Ranga Rao, Gummadi, Jaggaiah, Relangi, Savitri, Jamuna and so on.Here's an alphabetical take on the best in ... [ Published May 07 2012 by rediff.com ]

Entities: S. V. Ranga Rao, Rama Rao, Opium

First Reported May 07 2012 - Updated May 07 2012 - 1 Documents

Around Town: Treasure hunt right at home

An 84-year-old man showed off his opium pot and opium storage container at the Madison Senior Center on Sunday. ... [ Published May 07 2012 by Capital Times ]

Entities: Opium, Madison (Wisconsin, United States)

First Reported May 04 2012 - Updated May 04 2012 - 1 Documents

Guardian Books podcast: Literature which disrupts reality

In this week's podcast we look at writers whose latest works involve very different literary responses to the extremes of the contemporary world.The Indian poet and librettist Jeet Thayil makes his fiction debut with a novel which tracks the descent of ... [ Published May 04 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]

Entities: Phil Baker, Etgar Keret, Absinthe, Opium, Austin Osman Spare

First Reported May 01 2012 - Updated May 01 2012 - 1 Documents

Book Excerpt from Memoirs of an Addicted Brain: A Neuroscientist Examines His Former Life on Drugs

I lie on my bed in the waning afternoon and I try to find a way out of this. Just a few more days, I tell myself, but I hardly care now…And as far as tonight, it’s taken care of: I can already taste it. I get up and pace, and I start to get excited. Dopamine ... [ Published May 01 2012 by The Scientist ]

Entities: Dopamine, Opium, Neuroscience

First Reported Apr 29 2012 - Updated Apr 29 2012 - 1 Documents

Opium: Reality's Dark Dream by Thomas Dormandy – review

A deft history of opium spans the personal and the politicalIn 1840, Elizabeth Barrett wrote to Robert Browing, asking: "Can I be as good for you as morphine is for me, I wonder, even at the cost of being as bad also?" Both solace and scourge, opium has ... [ Published Apr 29 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]

Entities: Opium, Laudanum, Elizabeth Barrett

Quotes

...will win Dancing with the Stars and the Miles Franklin Literary Award to the final sale price of painter Edvard Munch's masterpiece, The Scream. "As long as it meets my licensing conditions and it passes the smell test, meaning it's not too weird, I will bet on anything" he says

A serious man [Canberra Times - 10 hours ago]

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New Book on Power Elite an Eye-Opener [ Published May 21 2012 by American Free Press ]
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Park Avenue Armory Gets Space-Age Makeover [ Published May 17 2012 by WNYC ]
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Emily Blunt for Vogue Italy [ Published May 09 2012 by Oh No They Didn't! ] The scene is that of a David Hockney acrylic painting, all that is missing are the automatic sprinklers watering the garden. At the top of a green hill in Hollywood, the downtown white-grey skyscrapers on one side, the blue ocean on the other, the ...
Books: Book Review: Jeet Thayil: Narcopolis [ Published Apr 23 2012 by A.V. Club ] Musician and poet Jeet Thayil drew on his own experiences as an addict in Bombay to write his first novel, Narcopolis, a flashy, chaotic look at a small-time drug dealer and his customers. Narcopolis imports the rhythms and emphasis of Charles Bukowski ...
Five challenges for the new director of The Hun... [ Published Apr 20 2012 by Film blog \| guardian.co.uk ] After Gary Ross's departure, what problems await Francis Lawrence, the newly announced director of Catching Fire? Spoiler alert: Do not read if you have not yet seen The Hunger Games or read the novel and would like to do either without knowing their ...
In Defense of "Girls" [ Published Apr 19 2012 by Oh No They Didn't! ] The "Girls" Backlash Addresses Nothing New to Hollywood, But It Sure Was Quick to Hate on Women I’m not sure what crawled under everyone’s skin so hard after HBO’s ‘Girls’ premiered on Sunday, but I am not pleased. I am not pleased at all, Internet. ...
?Small Girl Big Mouth?: A Girls Recap [ Published Apr 16 2012 by Gawker ] Today is Ian MacKaye's 50th birthday so I guess it's as good a time as any to realize you hate young people. Girls is a television program about the children of wealthy famous people and shitty music and Facebook and how hard it is to know who you are ...

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Empire's Opium Trade - Empire - Episode 4 - BBC... [ Published Mar 12 2012 by BBC Comedy - YouTube ]
Mexico Drought So Bad, Even Drug Trade Affected [ Published Feb 01 2012 by Associated Press - YouTube ]
Mexico Drought So Bad, Even Drug Trade Affected [ Published Feb 01 2012 by Associated Press - YouTube ]