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Astronaut Performs David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” While Floating in Space

Before he returns to Earth after five months aboard the International Space Station, Commander Chris Hadfield recorded this amazing cover of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity.”

Reaffirms my love for the Internet (and humanity). I hope this is blowing David Bowie’s mind as much as it is mine: 44 years after the single’s release, a bonafide astronaut is singing Space Oddity IN SPACE and over a million people watched it in under 24 hours. 

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The Difference Between Nerds and Hipsters with Glasses

or Why Do Does Everyone Hate Hipsters So Much, Anyway?

Thank you, PBS. The only thing missing here is the idea of hipster as fashion: because if all fashion is performative, we’re right back to the question of why people hate hipster fashion more than other fashion. Perhaps it’s something about the always-messy relationship between fashion and identity, and how sensitive we are about what we believe the boundaries should our shouldn’t be between the two?

storyboard: Letters to Newtown: Preserving 500,000 Messages of Hope & Sorrow This story was produced in partnership with Mother Jones and Newtown resident Ross MacDonald. For more information about the Letters to Newtown project, follow MoJo’s newly-launched Tumblr. Walk into the Newtown town hall, and you see bin after bin of cards and letters — some 500,000 at least, more arriving every day. They line both sides of the long main hall and fill up the branching halls and offices. Posters, paintings, quilts, and flags cover the walls. There are banners from students at Columbine and Virginia Tech; there are letters from school kids across America and from people as far away as France and Australia. And there are boxes of Kleenex on every table for those who read them. Read More Perhaps the most moving use of Tumblr yet. Wow, just wow.
storyboard: Letters to Newtown: Preserving 500,000 Messages of Hope & Sorrow This story was produced in partnership with Mother Jones and Newtown resident Ross MacDonald. For more information about the Letters to Newtown project, follow MoJo’s newly-launched Tumblr. Walk into the Newtown town hall, and you see bin after bin of cards and letters — some 500,000 at least, more arriving every day. They line both sides of the long main hall and fill up the branching halls and offices. Posters, paintings, quilts, and flags cover the walls. There are banners from students at Columbine and Virginia Tech; there are letters from school kids across America and from people as far away as France and Australia. And there are boxes of Kleenex on every table for those who read them. Read More Perhaps the most moving use of Tumblr yet. Wow, just wow.
storyboard: Letters to Newtown: Preserving 500,000 Messages of Hope & Sorrow This story was produced in partnership with Mother Jones and Newtown resident Ross MacDonald. For more information about the Letters to Newtown project, follow MoJo’s newly-launched Tumblr. Walk into the Newtown town hall, and you see bin after bin of cards and letters — some 500,000 at least, more arriving every day. They line both sides of the long main hall and fill up the branching halls and offices. Posters, paintings, quilts, and flags cover the walls. There are banners from students at Columbine and Virginia Tech; there are letters from school kids across America and from people as far away as France and Australia. And there are boxes of Kleenex on every table for those who read them. Read More Perhaps the most moving use of Tumblr yet. Wow, just wow.
storyboard: Letters to Newtown: Preserving 500,000 Messages of Hope & Sorrow This story was produced in partnership with Mother Jones and Newtown resident Ross MacDonald. For more information about the Letters to Newtown project, follow MoJo’s newly-launched Tumblr. Walk into the Newtown town hall, and you see bin after bin of cards and letters — some 500,000 at least, more arriving every day. They line both sides of the long main hall and fill up the branching halls and offices. Posters, paintings, quilts, and flags cover the walls. There are banners from students at Columbine and Virginia Tech; there are letters from school kids across America and from people as far away as France and Australia. And there are boxes of Kleenex on every table for those who read them. Read More Perhaps the most moving use of Tumblr yet. Wow, just wow.
storyboard: Letters to Newtown: Preserving 500,000 Messages of Hope & Sorrow This story was produced in partnership with Mother Jones and Newtown resident Ross MacDonald. For more information about the Letters to Newtown project, follow MoJo’s newly-launched Tumblr. Walk into the Newtown town hall, and you see bin after bin of cards and letters — some 500,000 at least, more arriving every day. They line both sides of the long main hall and fill up the branching halls and offices. Posters, paintings, quilts, and flags cover the walls. There are banners from students at Columbine and Virginia Tech; there are letters from school kids across America and from people as far away as France and Australia. And there are boxes of Kleenex on every table for those who read them. Read More Perhaps the most moving use of Tumblr yet. Wow, just wow.
storyboard: Letters to Newtown: Preserving 500,000 Messages of Hope & Sorrow This story was produced in partnership with Mother Jones and Newtown resident Ross MacDonald. For more information about the Letters to Newtown project, follow MoJo’s newly-launched Tumblr. Walk into the Newtown town hall, and you see bin after bin of cards and letters — some 500,000 at least, more arriving every day. They line both sides of the long main hall and fill up the branching halls and offices. Posters, paintings, quilts, and flags cover the walls. There are banners from students at Columbine and Virginia Tech; there are letters from school kids across America and from people as far away as France and Australia. And there are boxes of Kleenex on every table for those who read them. Read More Perhaps the most moving use of Tumblr yet. Wow, just wow.
storyboard: Letters to Newtown: Preserving 500,000 Messages of Hope & Sorrow This story was produced in partnership with Mother Jones and Newtown resident Ross MacDonald. For more information about the Letters to Newtown project, follow MoJo’s newly-launched Tumblr. Walk into the Newtown town hall, and you see bin after bin of cards and letters — some 500,000 at least, more arriving every day. They line both sides of the long main hall and fill up the branching halls and offices. Posters, paintings, quilts, and flags cover the walls. There are banners from students at Columbine and Virginia Tech; there are letters from school kids across America and from people as far away as France and Australia. And there are boxes of Kleenex on every table for those who read them. Read More Perhaps the most moving use of Tumblr yet. Wow, just wow.
storyboard: Letters to Newtown: Preserving 500,000 Messages of Hope & Sorrow This story was produced in partnership with Mother Jones and Newtown resident Ross MacDonald. For more information about the Letters to Newtown project, follow MoJo’s newly-launched Tumblr. Walk into the Newtown town hall, and you see bin after bin of cards and letters — some 500,000 at least, more arriving every day. They line both sides of the long main hall and fill up the branching halls and offices. Posters, paintings, quilts, and flags cover the walls. There are banners from students at Columbine and Virginia Tech; there are letters from school kids across America and from people as far away as France and Australia. And there are boxes of Kleenex on every table for those who read them. Read More Perhaps the most moving use of Tumblr yet. Wow, just wow.

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Letters to Newtown: Preserving 500,000 Messages of Hope & Sorrow

This story was produced in partnership with Mother Jones and Newtown resident Ross MacDonald. For more information about the Letters to Newtown project, follow MoJo’s newly-launched Tumblr.

Walk into the Newtown town hall, and you see bin after bin of cards and letters — some 500,000 at least, more arriving every day. They line both sides of the long main hall and fill up the branching halls and offices. Posters, paintings, quilts, and flags cover the walls. There are banners from students at Columbine and Virginia Tech; there are letters from school kids across America and from people as far away as France and Australia. And there are boxes of Kleenex on every table for those who read them.

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Perhaps the most moving use of Tumblr yet. Wow, just wow.

Met with this LA-based social enterprise today and I’m totally inspired. They’re extracting value from systems that tend to just discard things, fixing a small piece of our broken prison system and our environment - and making money at the same time. Watch this beautiful video about Isidore Electronics Recycling, and vote to help the film win $200K from GE!

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Muhammad Ali Goes to Mars: The Lost Interview

It was in the summer of 1966 when a star-struck 17-year-old set out to interview his idol: Muhammad Ali. Twenty miles from the South Side of Chicago, in Glencoe, Ill., Michael Aisner was calling repeatedly to the gym where the boxing champ was training. Finally, a man named Mr. Shabazz — Jeremiah Shabazz, perhaps? The man who introduced Ali to Islam? — picked up.

“Where are you from?” Shabazz asked the boy.

“I’m from WNTH, a high school radio station,” Aisner said.

“The champ doesn’t have time to talk,” he told him.

Aisner called back two days later. And then two days after that.

“Can I interview the champ?” he asked again.

Finally, Shabazz relented.

“Ok,” he said. “The champ will meet you.”

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This is a thing of beauty. Watch it now.