California deserves better solar power


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Death Valley National Park is a place so hot, gold prospectors named it after the thing they feared most. What life could the unrelenting sun allow, let alone support? Now, more than a century later, we have a brilliant answer. California has set up an $800,000 solar panel array in the national park. It would […]

The best of “the best music of 2011”


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With the New Year finally here, we pause a moment to bid 2011 farewell. From music industry megaliths like Pitchfork and NME to rinky-dink bloggers beaming tomes of their beautiful enthusiasm out of Mom’s basement directly at no one in particular, seemingly everybody has been counting down the cream of last year’s musical crop. Now […]

Tilt-shift emerges as new effect in film


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One big emerging trend in video and film is an effect known as “tilt-shift.” Tilt-shift is a style that makes real-life footage seem cartoon-like.  In the style, everything moves at hyper speed. People race around like toys at high speed and huge objects can seem miniature. Gigantic cruise ships suddenly race around the frame like […]