Jamie Malanowski

Phenomena

AWESOME!

On a visit to National Geographic‘s website, I found this incredible photograph of volcanic lightning taken by Italian photographer and scientist Marco Fulle as flew over Iceland’s erupting Eyjafjallajökull volcano last April. Who could imagine such terrible beauty?

BALALAIKAS

Repatriated Russian spy Anna Chapman, posing for Mucovite Maxim. In the immortal words of The Beatles: Show me around your snow-peaked mountains way down south Take me to your daddy’s farm Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out Come and keep your comrade warm I’m back in the USSR Hey you don’t know how lucky …

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IS SEX OVER?

Camille Paglia certainly rocked the Times the other day: “The implication is that a new pill, despite its unforeseen side effects, is necessary to cure the sexual malaise that appears to have sunk over the country. But to what extent do these complaints about sexual apathy reflect a medical reality, and how much do they …

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LET’S NOT REJOICE OVER THE DEATH OF PRIVACY JUST YET

In an article on CNET.com called “Why No One Cares About Privacy Anymore,” Declan McCullagh celebrates (I don’t think that’s too strong a word) the changing mores and advancing technology that seem to be turning the idea of privacy into a quaintly passe concept. Noting that the anticipated storm of privacy objections to Google Buzz …

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