Thursday Nov 26 | The Speculist
The Technology that Will Save the World
We're running BATT's every day during Thanksgiving week. The title is perhaps a bit overstated, even in the more modest form that Esquire used, but the idea the man is supporting is an excellent one: The miracle solution goes by different names: the sodium fast reactor, the integral fast reactor, the liquid-metal-cooled reactor.
Playing Chess With Russia: An Update on the New START Agreement
Normally, the New York Post is a publication known for tabloid-style stories with a right-wing slant.
DC Comics Absolute line has a new title: Absolute Justice . It begins with a dream.
Arch Enemy Guitarist's Armageddon: Albums to Be Reissued With Bonus Tracks
The second and third albums from ARMAGEDDON a ' the Swedish melodic metal project of ARCH ENEMY guitarist Chris Amott a ' will get a proper and domestic release outside of Japan, where they originally came out back in the years 2000 and 2002, respectively.
Gold Gives A Precious Insight Into Economy
What a strange and fascinating commodity gold is - a store of value that is no one's liability, which cannot be printed or debauched by governments but which, with no income stream, has no objective value.
Gold gives a precious insight into economy
What a strange and fascinating commodity gold is a store of value that is no one's liability, which cannot be printed or debauched by governments but which, with no income stream, has no objective value.
Heavy metal: energetic and highly amplified electronic rock music having a hard beat .
'62 crisis pushed globe closer to Armageddon than thought
Originally published on Oct. 13, 2002. HAVANA - Key actors in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis meeting here Saturday have learned that fast-moving events 40 years ago nearly spun out of control and brought them closer to nuclear disaster than they ever imagined.
Basil Wolverton at Gladstone Gallery; 'Portraits: In Pursuit of...
For better or for worse, master cartoonist Basil Wolverton may have single-handedly altered thousands of boys' psyches.
'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" is as loud and obnoxious as frat boys on an end-of-semester bender, which is fitting because it's those boys - and younger - at which this testosterone-charged flick is aimed.
'Transformers' all action, no substance
It's summer movie business as usual with "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" - a 149-minute piece of overkill so unvarying in its frenzied hysteria that it makes director Michael Bay's other efforts, like "Bad Boys" and "Armageddon," look like "My Dinner With Andre." Approaching the resplendent incoherence of "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's ...
Review: 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' erupts with chaos and wreckage on steroids
Tom Long: Film review: 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' -- GRADE C- Review: "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" erupts with chaos and wreckage on steroids New 'Transformers' erupts with chaos and wreckage on steroids A great grinding garbage disposal of a movie, "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" isn't so much a narrative film as a ...
Asian Stocks Post Weekly Decline Amid Concerns About Economic Recovery
Asian stocks fell for the first week in five as investors weighed the pace of economic recovery against valuations near the highest levels in five years.
Most Asian Stocks Fall on Growth Concern; Japan's Property Developers Rise
Most Asian stocks declined, led by mining companies and banks, after U.S. President Barack Obama said unemployment in the worlda s largest economy may reach 10 percent.
Every third Thursday, DJ 2Evil Armageddon spins Hip Hop, R&B, House, Reggae, and Reggaeton in the street level and DJ JNCO, Mekkah, and Karnal Bloodbath spins Goth, Metal, 80's Rock, New Wave, and Industrial downstairs to a 21 and over crowd.
More than meets the eye ... the Autobot Bumblebee. Machines ... Megan Fox and Shia LaBeouf.
Philip Reeve's intricate imagination makes J K Rowling feel like Enid Blyton, but he is as adept as she is at creating likeable characters, subtle villains and situations where good is hard to sort from evil.
The trials and trails of disc golf
So far this spring my nemesis is a 3-foot wooden post topped by three coffee cans.
Fight scenes dominate 'Terminator Salvation'
One of Hollywood's oldest axioms teaches us: The story comes first. Watching "Terminator Salvation," it occurred to me that in the new Hollywood, the story board comes first.
Terminate this! No Bale out for 'Terminator Salvation'
"Terminator Salvation" is like Christmas come early for boys who love big, eardrum-blasting toys.
Also on Topix