It’s Blaz the impaler. A banner unfurled Tuesday on the Staten Island Freeway shows New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio smiling in a Che Guevara shirt as he holds Lady Liberty’s severed and bloody head. “It is what it is doing to New York, it is cutting off the …
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The largest 3D map of the universe ever created revealed by astrophysicists
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), a project involving hundreds of scientists at dozens of institutions around the world, collected decades of data and mapped the universe with telescopes. With these measurements, spanning more than 2 million galaxies and quasars formed over 11 billion years, scientists can now better understand …
Read More »Major League Baseball Players Take Visible Stance on Social Justice
PHOENIX (AP) – Major League Baseball has not always been at the forefront of the social justice movement in recent years, with leagues like the NBA and NFL generally at the center. But in the wake of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, and due to the quirks of a coronavirus-altered …
Read More »Rolling Stones drops long-lost song ‘Scarlet’ with Jimmy Page: Stream it now
It’s not every day you get a new old song from the Rolling Stones. Today is that day. The Stones unearthed “Scarlet”, featuring Led Zeppelin guitar hero Jimmy Page and the late bass genius Rick Grech (Traffic, Blind Faith, Family) and recorded in October 1974. A “holy grail” release from …
Read More »Weekly demand for mortgages from home buyers increases more, 19% annually
As temperatures soar this summer, demand from home buyers is increasing. Add that to an already strong refinance market, and the total volume of mortgage applications increased 4.1% last week from the previous week, according to the Association of Mortgage Bankers. Helping to fuel demand, mortgage rates hovered near a …
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