Auto-Tune The Cosmos
“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” I promise this will cheer you up.
Beer Or Wine? Drinking To Save The Planet
“Q I’m hosting a dinner party next week, and I’ll be serving both beer and wine alongside the meal. Which has the lower carbon footprint?” The Washington Post‘s “Green Lantern” column delivers a remarkably detailed overview of the the environmental consequences of drinking. Asked to decide whether beer or wine leaves a smaller carbon…
WaterWheel Rewards Community Volunteers At Phish’s Festival 8
Volunteerism has its perks, at least when Phish’s WaterWheel Foundation is encouraging it. Everyone who puts in at least eight hours at a local nonprofit becomes eligible for prizes at Festival 8. So go for it: Join The WaterWheel Foundation in attaining at total of 8,000 hours of volunteer service and be entered to win…
California Coastal Cleanup Day: San Francisco
On Saturday nine HeadCount San Francisco Team volunteers participated in the 25th annual California Coastal Cleanup Day by picking up litter at one of the state’s 800 cleanup locations. We joined the Candlestick Park Cleanup in South San Francisco. According to the California Coastal Commission: When combined with the International Coastal Cleanup, organized by The…
Who Can Stop Extrajudicial Killings?
I recently attended a talk by New York University professor Philip Alston, the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Killings. While his stories were horrifyingly compelling, and his experiences important, I was left truly disheartened about the inability of the UN (or any other international body for that matter) to stop
G-20 Summit Gala At The Warhol Museum
With the G-20 Summit in progress as of yesterday, all eyes are on Pittsburgh. World leaders will gather to discuss environmental concerns, clean energy, and economic prosperity. Prior to the G-20 local media has been updating residents about security, traffic, and the army of protesters descending on the Steel City. My original plan, to stay…
Where The Jobs Went
Job Voyager is a nifty interactive visualization representing the shift in occupations in the U.S. from 1850 to 2000. Scrolling over the graphic reveals the percentage of male and female workers holding each particular job each year. The elephant on the screen is farming, which diminishes from an occupation engaged in by nearly half…
Katie Couric Salary Tops Entire NPR News Budget
Ever wonder why network news kind of, you know, sucks? Michael Manning reports for the Columbia Journalism Review that Katie Couric’s salary alone is more than the combined budgets of National Public Radio’s two main news shows: While doing some recent research on the news business, I came upon this remarkable fact: Katie Couric’s annual…
Nathan Moore Records ‘A Picture Of Hard Times’
Andrew Bruss interviewed singer-songwriter Nathan Moore for Jambase. Here’s a sample: “I guess with the new album there’s a picture of hard times, of the recession that we’re involved in, and there’s a little bit of the traveling vibe [incorporated] but from the perspective of a traveling troubadour, so there are Walmarts instead of boxcars,”…
Musician, Teacher, Activist Chris Ijima’s Legacy Celebrated
If you live in Honolulu, you might want to check out tonight’s panel discussion and screening of A Song for Ourselves, a new documentary about the late University of Hawaii law professor Chris Ijima, who died in 2005. Ijima was also a musician as well as an influential activist around Asian-American issues. A Honolulu Weekly…