Sussex police are looking into the 1969 death of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones. At the time his death was ruled an accident, but some 600 new documents may prove otherwise.
“It’s too early to comment at this time as to what the outcome might be,” the Sussex duty inspector said in a planned statement. No further details have been given.
Also? Noel Gallagher has quite Oasis for the millionth time. No word on when they’re getting back together or what this has to do with Brian Jones’s death.
In exchange for $4 Billion, Disney acquires Marvel’s staple of 5,000+ characters. The news comes as a bit of a surprise for a deal of this magnitude. The terms of the deal seem to be similar to the one they struck with Pixar several years ago, with Disney acting as a distribution/marketing side and Marvel obtaining creative control of their properties.
The most exciting news? Pixar head John Lasseter met with Marvel executives last week, “about a possible team-up between Marvel and Pixar and got ‘pretty excited, pretty fast.’ They say there’s definitely an opportunity there.” Yes, yes there would. If nothing comes of this deal except Pixar being involved with Marvel Animation then it’s totally worth it.
Though I suppose, Disney ruining the Marvel characters by making them family-friendly would also be a terrible thing.
UPDATE: The L.A. Times weighs in on how Disney can broaden its brand with the purchase of Marvel. The Beat has a good roundup of news related to the deal, too.
“In a festival heavy on over-familiar or unimpressive bands, it was left to last night’s closing act Radiohead to wrong-foot everyone. The odds on their angst-ridden singer Thom Yorke’s first words being ‘Whassup?’ followed by the initial hit song they’ve all but disowned, ‘Creep’, would have been prohibitively long,” writes Nick Hasted for The Independent. It’s disarming to hear Yorke turn himself into a Budweiser commercial. Still, there’s no doubting how good “Creep” followed by “The National Anthem” sound together.
“This summer, it’s back. It’s big — big enough to be legible in photographs. And it’s everywhere: on his shoes, on his belt tab, on his duffel, on his jackets, on the plastic bags his new rackets come in. Forget all the subtle functions a monogram used to perform — discreetly personalizing a gentleman’s wardrobe, helping the servants sort the shirts. What three years ago seemed a plausible, if affected, personal flourish on the part of an athlete whose style of dress and style of play had positioned him as the Fred Astaire of tennis — light on his feet, with a penchant for tuxedo black for night matches and a Rolex commercial in which he shows off his serve in a two-button suit — had somehow escalated into a master-of-all-he-surveys exercise in personal branding.” Roger Federer’s monogram reads like an interesting intersection of marketing, personal branding, fashion, design, sportsmanship and history. And yes, the US Open is descending on Flushing Meadows this week.
Allow me this transgression first: Buildings and Food is quickly becoming one of my favorite sites to read. Alesh Houdek has a site that makes me jealous. Great content, great layout, really everything you could want from a blog. I first discovered it through commenting over at Rex’s place and I’m glad I did. Today, he has a small nugget about five health care facts that’s just alarming.
62% of the bankruptcies in the United States are caused by devastating medical bills.
78% of those cases were people who had health insurance, but who found themselves not covered, or not sufficiently covered, when the time came.
18,000 people unnecessarily die here every year because of a lack of insurance.
Of the top 50 richest nations in the world, the United States is the only one that does not have guaranteed health care for everyone.
The last Republican administration had 8 years to fix the health care system their way, and they decided to do nothing.
I would also add that if you think health care reform is going to happen or that it’s going to happen and have beneficial changes for ordinary Americans you’re crazy.
Of course, I missed this Saturday morning when I cut out to go buy produce at the farmer’s market. So yeah, when Orin Hatch says he’ll miss his “Irish friend” (yup, I know it’s a poem but still) do you think that’s code for something. Too soon to be making with the jokes? Anyways, I’m glad I don’t live in Boston right now because family has said it’s been non-stop coverage for a week.
Always curious by anything Rachel Weisz does, but I’m not sure about this one. Visually, it’s quite striking. Otherwise, the new movie from director Alejandro Amenábar (The Sea Inside, The Others, and Open Your Eyes), looks like a tough pill.
Historical movies like this, are always a tough sell, especially when no one in the movie seems Egyptian. Regardless, Weisz plays the Atheist female philosopher Hypathia trying to preserve her culture’s wisdom during a time when Christianity was on the rise in the Egyptian Empire. Of course, there’s a love triangle too, as these movies often do.
He’s just a computer nerd and ruthless business man and probably bored-stiff now that he’s not running Microsoft on a day-to-day basis.
Still, this CNN story about whether or not he can stop hurricanes is, shockingly, not from The Onion. It sort of makes him sound like a nutty mad scientist. “Gates and a dozen other scientists have raised eyebrows by submitting patent applications for a technology to reduce the danger of approaching hurricanes by cooling ocean temperatures.”
Apparently, the definitive answer from experts is that, no, Bill Gates, cannot stop Hurricanes. Shocking.
Let’s see. Michael Bay is producing (and may direct) a movie based upon a teen sci-fi novel from James Fray (A Million Little Pieces), with a script from the duo responsible for the television show Smallville and the Hannah Montana movie. I’m pretty sure my penis just shrivelled up into my stomach.
My friend Jess Sanet has an open aversion to certain, specific words. It is one of many very, very cool things about that she physically shudders when she hears the words: moist, cocoa or panties.
Jess, you can take comfort in not being the only one. Apparantly, moist is the most hated word in the English language. Commence shuddering.
The measurement requires extremes of precision. In order to avoid the effects of stray gas molecules bounding around, or the general atomic-scale jiggling that room-temperature objects experience, the whole setup has to be kept under high vacuum and at blisteringly cold temperatures.
However, the tip of the AFM’s prong is not well-defined and isn’t necessarily sharp on the scale of single atoms. The effect of this bluntness is to blur the instrument’s images.
The researchers have now hit on the idea of deliberately picking up just one small molecule – made of one atom of carbon and one of oxygen – with the AFM tip, forming the sharpest, most well-defined tip possible.
Their measurement of a pentacene molecule using this carbon monoxide tip shows the bonds between the carbon atoms in five linked rings, and even suggests the bonds to the hydrogen atoms at the molecule’s periphery.
The next time one of your animal-loving friends yaps on about animals being used for science research (as being evil or whatever the reason is), tell them that necessary healthcare benefits are being made for humans.
But! But! You have to understand the process and implications for this research. Researchers “developed a way to replace most of the genes in the eggs of one rhesus macaque monkey with genes from another monkey. They then fertilized the eggs with sperm, transferred the resulting embryos into animals’ wombs and produced four apparently healthy offspring.”
The technique was developed for women who have disorders caused by defects in a form of DNA passed only from females to their children, and the researchers said they hope the work will eventually translate into therapies for people.
“We believe this technique can be applied pretty quickly to humans and believe it will work,” said Shoukhrat Mitalipov of the Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, who led the work, published online Wednesday by the journal Nature.
Women would be able to give birth to healthy offspring without the fear of passing along genetic diseases. Are you telling me that this isn’t important and cool and worth a few monkeys?
I held off on writing about the new site: People of Wal-Mart (which seems to be down, either from the heavy traffic it’s no doubt getting or from Wal-Mart’s lawyers), which in a sense is another one of those user-submitted photography sites to make fun of an inherently funny social caste.
But I refrained because it didn’t sit right with me. It seemed a bit cruel, after-all, the site is clearly cherry picking the worst of the worst Wal-Mart shoppers to feed into the stereotype of what afluent, coastal elites think of a typical shopper.
But the truth is, plenty of people shop at Wal-Mart, often times against their moral compass because they are broke and Wal-Mart is cheap. Including myself and many others I know. It’s like having sex with the devil or something.
Choire, over at The Awl, makes the case on the conflicting nature of the site and why something is a bit askew with it better than I ever could. Or rather, have the time to make.
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