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Entertainment/culture Music

An old 1960’s warhorse is on top again

Amazing. Maybe there is hope for the music world after all: NEW YORK Sep 6, 2006 (AP)— Bob Dylan is back at the top of the charts for the first time in 30 years. His new album, “Modern Times,” reached No. 1 on the album sales chart, selling 192,000 units in its first week of […]

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Entertainment/culture Medicine

More on Steve Irwin and stingray barbs

Dr. Chris Rangel has posted a good discussion of trauma due to stingray barbs, stingray venom, and Steve Irwin’s tragic death yesterday. It’s well worth a read.

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Entertainment/culture Popular culture Science

The Crocodile Hunter is no more

Holy crap. I get up on this holiday morning, and what is the first thing that I see when I check out the ScienceBlogs most recent posts, but a bunch of posts on Pharyngula, Pure Pedantry, Dr. Joan Bushwell’s Chimpanzee Refuge, and Evolving Thoughts, The Scientific Indian, and Afarensis? Steve Irwin (a.k.a. the Crocodile Hunter) […]

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Entertainment/culture Music Sports

Taking dedication a little too far

You know, as a native Detroiter and Tigers fan, I’m not sure whether to be pleased or appalled by this picture of one of my more–shall we say?–“illustrious” fellow Detroiters getting married. The least he could do would be to wear the jersey along with the hat, don’t you think?

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Entertainment/culture Humor Music

Weekend YouTube: There, now, that’s much better

You know, although I’m not exactly a huge fan of it, I have sometimes in the past liked to listen to a little dose (but just a little) dose of death metal. Sometimes I’m just in the mood for some over-the-top growled lyrics of death, doom, violence, and destruction shrieked over a churning demonic-sounding metal […]