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Violent Masculinity, American Superiority, and Working Class Appeal Gender identities are socially constructed and reinforced in advertising and other media. A 2009 commercial for the Ford F-150 truck reinforces a violent...
Back in July 1969, amateur radio buff Larry Baysinger managed the impossible by listening in on transmissions from the Apollo 11 astronauts during their historic lunar landing. The Louisville Courier-Journal reported, "Thanks...
When the comics artist Hergé (aka Georges Rémi) created his most famous character, Tintin, in the late 1920s, he drew the tuft-haired young reporter in black and white. His fellow Belgian Josette Baujot, who has died aged 88,...
Guest column: Eagle Scouts are so much more than outdoor adventurers CAROL LOVEGREN MILLER When a baby boy is born, parents and grandparents hold that special baby in their arms and wonder and dream about what he will become...
Not only was it the year Neil Armstrong landed on the moon, Woodstock changed the concept of the music festival forever, and colour TV launched in the UK - 1969 was also the year that Sesame Street launched, 40 years ago today.
American astronaut, Scott Parazynski became the first human to have done both. In 2008, NASA astronaut Scott Parazynski embarked on his first expedition from Everest Base Camp, trekking towards the summit. He was forced to turn...
Let's take a break from politics for a moment. Instead of using big, expensive, disposed-after-one-use rockets to get into space (all that's left to us once the Shuttle program is grounded) another possibility is elevators....
Routine commercial travel to outer space may be the norm as soon as 2012, as the next generation of spacecraft - designed by private sector firms like Virgin Galactic, Orbital Sciences Corp., Space Exploration Technologies...
A listing of the finalist quotes, as selected by the panel of ten judges, played in each of four award categories: "The Media Messiah Award" went to MSNBC's Chris Matthews for boasting Obama gave him a "thrill going up my leg."...
The year was 1969. It also was the year that kids were first introduced to Big Bird, Kermit, Bert and Ernie, Oscar, Grover and Cookie Monster (the show's first Muppet characters). Produced by the nonprofit Sesame Workshop,...
