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For all you baby boomers out there, here's your chance to go back to a more innocent time. Back before things went all glum, serious and threatening. Next Tuesday Classic Media Video will release, for the first time ever, all 46 episodes of the early 70's Saturday morning cartoon, The Jackson 5ive series, in a special four disc DVD set, continuing both standard and blu-ray versions of the shows (2 discs each). The show was produced by Motown and Rankin/Bass, which, back during the 70's and 80's, was one of biggest producers of family and animation weekly and holiday entertainment for television. The show premiered on ABC in Sept 1971, but only...
[view whole blog postThe second episode of this Victorian police procedural saw the trio investigate the brutal murder of a toy maker and as per usual the truth was far from simple.
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Egypt on Sunday appointed ten new ministers, including three from the ruling Muslim Brotherhood party, in an attempt to address the country's economic woes. Tourism, a major foreign currency earner, has dropped sharply since the ousting of Mubarak.
[view whole blog postWhat factors influence whether or not a tweet is perceived as credible? According to this recent study, users have "difficulty discerning truthfulness based on con-tent alone, with message topic, user name, and user image all impacting judg-ments of tweets and authors to varying ... Continue reading →
[view whole blog postENGLISH TRANSLATION There's no one, there's no one like Jesus There's no one, there's no one like him never never ...
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[view whole blog postLast season saw half of the Glee club members graduate with some moving across America. While the last time we saw Rachel (Lea Michele) she was on a train bound for the Big Apple where she will be studying at the New York Academy of the Dramatic Arts (NYADA).
[view whole blog post- IIASA News Release Limiting climate change to target levels will become much more difficult to achieve, and more expensive, if action is not taken soon, according to a new analysis from IIASA, ETH Zurich, and NCAR. The new study, published this week in the journal Nature, examined the probability of keeping average global temperatures from [...]
[view whole blog post- IIASA News Release Limiting climate change to target levels will become much more difficult to achieve, and more expensive, if action is not taken soon, according to a new analysis from IIASA, ETH Zurich, and NCAR. The new study, published this week in the journal Nature, examined the probability of keeping average global temperatures from [...]
[view whole blog post- IIASA News Release Limiting climate change to target levels will become much more difficult to achieve, and more expensive, if action is not taken soon, according to a new analysis from IIASA, ETH Zurich, and NCAR. The new study, published this week in the journal Nature, examined the probability of keeping average global temperatures from [...]
[view whole blog post- IIASA News Release Limiting climate change to target levels will become much more difficult to achieve, and more expensive, if action is not taken soon, according to a new analysis from IIASA, ETH Zurich, and NCAR. The new study, published this week in the journal Nature, examined the probability of keeping average global temperatures from [...]
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Egypt on Sunday appointed ten new ministers, including three from the ruling Muslim Brotherhood party, in an attempt to address the country's economic woes. Tourism, a major foreign currency earner, has dropped sharply since the ousting of Mubarak.
[view whole blog postWhat factors influence whether or not a tweet is perceived as credible? According to this recent study, users have "difficulty discerning truthfulness based on con-tent alone, with message topic, user name, and user image all impacting judg-ments of tweets and authors to varying ... Continue reading →
[view whole blog postIn the Monitor, Timothy Kalyegira's scathing indictment of Uganda's ruling elite and 'middle class':
Since 1962, a small indigenous middle class has been slowly emerging which defines itself in terms of the way it dresses, drives and drinks, rather than the way it thinks and the inventive and intellectual output of its mind and factories.
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