Garfield without Garfield is a far better comic!

Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?
Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against lonliness and methamphetamine addiction in a quiet American suburb.

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Article: Big Foot: - In measuring carbon emissions, it’s easy to confuse morality and science

Calculating carbon output is a complex, if not counterintuitive, process, Specter says. In the February 25 issue, he writes about the difficulties of measuring carbon footprints in an article titled "Big Foot: In Measuring Carbon Emissions, it's Easy to Confuse Morality and Science."

Specter was formerly The New York Times' Moscow bureau co-chief, and before that the national science reporter for The Washington Post.

Read the article by Michael Spector in the New Yorker

Terry Gross interviewed him on FreshAir. Listen to the interview

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Music: Smoke on the water in chinese instrumentation

I love reinterpretations of music on unconventional instruments. Here's one from china.

Video: Terry Fader - ventriloquist

This ventriloquist is amazing.