Before Rachel Carson became the mother of the modern environmental movement, she was stuck in a job that paid the bills but left her restless.
A new documentary revisits Carson's days as an information specialist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the 1930s and '40s, where at first she filed mundane reports about the agency's conservation work.
It was in that role that Carson learned about DDT — a potent pesticide that farmers sprayed indiscriminately over their crops. Carson exposed the chemical's widespread environmental damage in her groundbreaking 1962 book, Silent Spring.
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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band may be a long way from home, but The Boss took some time out of his set in Australia on Sunday to talk about the Women's Marches which occurred across the United States on Saturday.
“We’re a long way from home, and our hearts and spirits are with the hundreds of thousands of men and women that marched yesterday in every city in America — and in Melbourne!” Springsteen said with his guitar in hand.
Springsteen went on spit out a laundry list of causes with a beatnik-type of bounce in his voice.
“[They] rallied against hate and division and in support of tolerance, inclusion, reproductive rights, civil rights, racial justice, LGBTQ rights, the environment, wage equality, gender equality, healthcare, and immigrant rights,” said Springsteen. “We stand with you. We are the new American resistance.” Read more...
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The Democratic Party might have just found the perfect ticket to run against Donald Trump in 2020.
This weekend, two of the NBA's most successful coaches posterized Trump with their words. First up was San Antonio Spurs coaching legend Gregg Popovich.
"I'd just feel better if somebody was in that position that showed the maturity and psychological and emotional level of somebody that was his age," he said of Trump on Saturday, according to ESPN.
He added that "there's a difference between respecting the office of the presidency and who occupies it. And that respect has to be earned. But it's hard to be respectful of someone when we all have kids, and we're watching him be misogynistic and xenophobic and racist and make fun of handicapped people." Read more...
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Donald Trump is really, really, really obsessed with numbers, especially those that reflect his popularity, sending members of his staff into the world armed with lies and "alternative facts" to claim the attendance at his inauguration on Friday was HYUGE.
Unfortunately for Trump, every indication is that, no matter what he says, there were far fewer people there than the president would like to think and the NHL's Dallas Stars were more than happy to rip on him for it.
On Saturday night, just hours after Trump claimed during a speech at the CIA that 1.5 million people had attended his inauguration, the Stars posted the attendance for their game against the Washington Capitals as — you guessed it — 1.5 million. Read more...
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Here's another reminder that the turnout for the hundreds of Women's Marches across the globe Saturday was YUGE.
From San Francisco to D.C. to Madison, Wisconsin, throngs of supporters packed streets and parks, a massive show of unity in the wake of the inauguration of Donald Trump as the nation's 45th president.
And these timelapses give us an idea of just how immense the groups were, as the crowd moves over minutes and hours, a seemingly never-ending sea of nasty women and allies.
Time lapse from #WomensMarch taken near the new Trump hotel (there were a lotta boos & chants here from the crowd!) #WomensMarchOnWashington http://pic.twitter.com/OJ9jzT5ORZ
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The Women's March brought together millions of people in the United States — and not all of them were women.
Dads, too, came out to show their support for the march and the women in their lives. The subways and streets of Washington, D.C., were full of grown men wearing knitted pink vagina hats on their heads. At the march, they were seen handing out sandwiches, pushing strollers and raising their children and their fists.
Though there's no official estimate on the number of men participating, the visual and anecdotal accounts of their participation were strong. Here's why a few of them chose to participate: Read more...
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It's been 13 years and seven directing gigs since an M. Night Shyamalan movie opened at the top of the box officeSplit broke that drought over the weekend.
While Sunday box numbers are admittedly estimates, there is zero chance for #2 finisher xXx: The Return of Xander Cage. The Vin Diesel-led action movie nabbed an estimated $20 million domestically — it's not a bad showing, but it's far behind the $40.2 million domestic estimate for Split.
While Split marks a milestone for Shyamalan, its opening numbers still don't top The Village. The 2004 thriller was the director's second-most successful domestic opening ($50.7 million) after Signs ($60.1 million), in 2002. Read more...
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Yordano Ventura, the Kansas City Royals star young right-handed pitcher, died early Sunday in a car accident, per ESPN.
He was 25 years old, and died in his native Dominican Republic.
The Royals confirmed Ventura's death in an official statement.
"Our prayers right now are with Yordano's family as we mourn this young man's passing," Royals general manager Dayton Moore said in the statement. "He was so young and so talented, full of youthful exuberance and always brought a smile to everyone he interacted with. We will get through this as an organization, but right now is a time to mourn and celebrate the life of Yordano." Read more...
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Before Hamilton was a Broadway smash and a lightning rod for controversy in Trump's America, it was just a searing collection of beats and rhymes. And now you can listen to those formative rough drafts.
Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda released eight "Hamildemos" via SoundCloud on Saturday. These stripped-down takes on some of the show's music give fans a glimpse into Miranda's creative process.
The collection of tunes — many of which are labeled "first draft" or "early draft" — obviously doesn't cover the entire show. The playlist includes demo takes on "Say No To This," "Guns & Ships," "Congratulations," "You Obedient Servant," "The Story of Tonight," "Satisfied," "Right Hand Man," and "My Shot." Read more...
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On Nov. 8, mothers all across the country walked with their daughters to cast their votes for what they'd thought would be the first woman president. On Jan. 21, 2017, they came together again, this time for a different reason.
Anywhere from 3.6 to 4.8 million people marched at the Women's March on Saturday — and that's just in the United States alone. In more than 600 U.S. cities, in 60 countries and on seven different continents, mothers and their daughters walked together at Women's Marches. They came with signs in their hands and knitted vaginas on their heads and warm granola bars in their pockets. For one day, feminism didn't seem like a thing of the past but a hopeful force for the future — uniting daughters with their mothers, as well as the mothers who fought before them. Read more...
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Some dogs are good at fetch, others can show off their sweet tricks. This pup is a master in jumping over a gate that's likely intended to keep her out of a certain area of the house.
Her form is simply perfect throughout the entirety of the launch. It's remarkable.
@GeoMcBerry tweeted the clip of the dog in action on Friday, and has since racked up over 92,000 retweets and some hilarious comments.
@GeoMcBerry your dog reminded me of these lil rubber things I use to play with as a kid lol http://pic.twitter.com/GWMHoztTSd
— marcos (@markeedos) January 21, 2017
@GeoMcBerry I CANT BREATHEEEEE http://pic.twitter.com/xd1zBbpxvY
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In the world of fake news, now we also have "alternative facts."
On Saturday, President Donald Trump's first full day in office, his press secretary Sean Spicer held a press conference in which he falsely claimed that the previous day's crowd was the "largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period."
Spicer's false remarks instantly became a new meme and sent the internet into a fury.
On Sunday, Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump, appeared on NBC's Meet The Press, where Chuck Todd grilled the Trump administration for spreading falsehoods on their first full day in office. In response, Conway called the falsehoods "alternative facts." Read more...
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An Afro-Abkhazian mountaineer.
Image: Library of Congress
In 1864, young Ohioan George Kennan joined a crew of explorers scouting a possible telegraph route from the Bering Strait across Siberia to Europe as an alternative to a cable across the Atlantic.
After Kennan spent two years surveying frigid wilderness and encountering myriad indigenous peoples, the planned telegraph was abandoned with the completion of the Atlantic cable.
A devastated Kennan returned to the US with nothing but his diaries, which he adapted into a popular book, Tent Life in Siberia, and a successful lecture series.
He returned to Russia in 1870, sailing from St. Petersburg down the Volga to the Caspian Sea and roaming the highlands of the Caucasus, meeting Georgians, Armenians and dozens of ethnic groups. Read more...
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Hours after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, and the night before 1 million women marched on Washington, Lauren Schulte knew she had to figure out how her tech company would navigate America's new future.
"We're going to do some stuff and we're not going to be quiet," Schulte, the co-founder of Flex, a Y Combinator startup that produces a tampon alternative, told a group of her peers from Silicon Valley during dinner at a Mediterranean restaurant in Capitol Hill.
It would be hard to find Silicon Valley founders and staffers more attuned to the risks of the Trump administration than the ones who gathered with Schulte in D.C. on Friday night. In town for the Women's March on Washington, the 18 women and one man all worked in some way on women’s health — a growing segment of the tech industry and an area under continued threat by attacks on reproductive rights and the impending repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Read more...
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Donald Trump rose to global fame thanks to his reality TV career. Now as president of the United States, he remains fixated on the small screen.
President Trump on Sunday morning touted the Nielsen ratings for live TV coverage of his Jan. 20 inauguration. He did so right after tweeting critically about the demonstrators who poured into cities worldwide on Saturday to challenge Trump's agenda and his misogynistic, xenophobic and anti-science remarks.
Trump said he watched the Women's Marches on Saturday, but he questioned why the demonstrators didn't bother to vote last November. In fact, 48.2 percent of U.S. voters chose Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, versus 46.2 percent for Trump. Read more...
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PARK CITY, Utah — We've all been there: The 7th Circle of Instagram Jealousy Hell.
Maybe not the demonic depths to which Aubrey Plaza's character goes in Ingrid Goes West — or with the same monstrous consequences — but its flames have licked at anyone who's ever posted, liked, commented or cyber-stalked on Insta.
Lookin' at you, everyone with an account, ever.
As pervasive in our daily lives as social media-envy may be, movies (Men, Women & Children, Nerve) and TV shows (Black Mirror) have only begun to reckon with it — and nothing's dredged up a more heinous, yet fully realized and relatable evil than Ingrid, the most blinding light yet shone into the ugly corners of human nature on social media. Read more...
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In his directorial debut, Macon Blair cooks up a world full of assholes. Ruth, a rehab nurse, lives quietly among them in I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore — until a home break-in pushes her over the edge.
And Melanie Lynskey (Togetherness) shines equally as lonely Ruth and the full-charging vigilante she becomes as she hunts down her thief. Her performance will have you rooting for the good-girl-gone-bad, and by the time this comedy takes a turn for the dark side, you're ready for the ride.
She clocks an old antique salesman in the face, and you are still on her side. The ride can get real wacky, but that's part of the charm. Read more...
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