Map via greatamericaneclipse.com It’s probably not too soon to start planning next summer—specifically, the complete solar eclipse that will be visible in parts of Oregon on Monday, August 21, 2017. It’s the first solar eclipse in which the totality will be visible in Oregon since 1979, and the first one to hit both American coasts […]
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Kargi Gogo Closes Friday! Get Your Georgian Cheese Bread and Dumplings NOW.
It’s high season for fatty, carb-y comfort food, so it is slightly panic inducing that much-loved Georgian food cart Kargi Gogo has announced that this Friday will be their last. In a note to fans via their home page, the owners explained they’re hanging up the cart life, not for lack of business, but because […]
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“Best Thing to Happen in Oregon Sports Since 1977!”: This Week’s Mercury Letters to the Editor!
CRAIG MITCHELLDYER / PORTLAND TIMBERS CALL IT WHAT IT IS RE: “Sorry, GOP. Pretty Sure Terrorism Was Already Political.” [News, Dec 2], in which Megan Burbank responds to conservatives’ criticism of their liberal counterparts for politicizing the recent shooting at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado. ATTENTION MEGAN BURBANK—While I wholeheartedly agree with you on the […]
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This Week in Art: Bizarro Fiction, Science for Women, & the Allure of Mid-Brow Entertainment
Artwork by Eatcho In which we talk about art that stands out. The arts section was jam-packed this week, as we continued our weeks-long stretch of covering vaguely creepy things that live in the great, generative space between high and low culture (previously: David Cronenberg’s cannabilism-meets-philosophy debut novel, Consumed; William Gibson‘s latest; and severed heads […]
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Happy Martian Birthday, Curiosity!
It has been 678 Earth days since NASA’s Mars Curiosity landed to look for signs the planet could or once did support living organisms, just in case, you know, out of curiosity and all. That means it turns one Mars year old today, so HBD, Curiosity! To celebrate, let’s review a few of its discoveries […]
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Another Earth Is Discovered
What is that we can now say with the recent discovery of a distant planet that appears to be just like the only planet on which we humans know for sure that life exists? “This is the first validated Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of another star,” Dr. Quintana said. “We can now say […]
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Wheeeeeee! BLOOD MOON! Wheeeeee!
In case you decided against staying up last night to see the moon getting flooded with blood from the tears of Jesus Christ—that’s the scientific explanation—Time magazine produced a nine-second GIF so you could watch the Blood Moon in a less boring fashion. However! If that one’s too slow for you, here’s an even faster […]
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Meteorocalypse! (Asterocalypse? WHATEVER!) Sweet Video of Meteor Explosions!
As Denis mentioned in Good Morning News, Russia had some little visitors yesterday—meteorites that exploded over the Urals in Russia, damaging 300 buildings and injuring 900 people (mostly via broken glass). Here’s an awesome news report from Russia Today in which the (fairly flippant) Brit host and his not-exactly-a-scientist-but-she’s-cute “expert” reporter describe what happened and—here’s […]
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Watch Video of Two Portland Dudes Shooting a Hot Dog into Space
America! The land where you can achieve your dreams, as long as they’re ridiculous ones like sending a hot dog into space. As detailed in this week’s upcoming cover story, the engineers at Portland’s Ruckus Composites became the first people to ever shoot a hot dog into space this summer, when they launched an all-beef […]
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Hot Victory’s Intergalactic New Video
Prepare yourself for a journey through space and time, provided by the new brain-melting video from Hot Victory. Once a duo, then a trio, and now back to the duo of dueling drummers Caitlin Love and Ben Stoller (aww, they even share the hi-hat), Hot Victory makes music for which no words suffice. “Intergalactic electro-prog”? […]
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Red Bull Stratos Jump – IMPROVED AUDIO
If you haven’t watched the whole Red Bull Freefall From The Edge Of Space, I highly recommend it. The only problem I had when I was watching it live yesterday was that I couldn’t make out what Felix was saying. I ran the audio through a couple filters though, and I think it’s much more […]
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I’d Like to Hear Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Thoughts About Battlefield Earth
… or at least have him read the audiobook. Following last month’s teaser, here’s another quick, great ad for Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master—featuring the first glimpse of Philip Seymour Hoffman as L. Ron Hubbard Totally Not L. Ron Hubbard. The only way this casting could be better is if they got Tom Cruise. Whoa, […]