Tag: YouTube
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Who Knew This Could Happen?!!!
A spectacular video from Mille Lacs Lake in Minnesota demonstrates the incredible capabilities of nature. The footage is of snow getting pushed ashore in the spring. This is called an ice shove or shoreline ice pile up. It is a surge of ice from an ocean or large lake onto the shore. They are caused by…
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Mohsen Namjoo Stirs Things Up
Jon Pareles introduces us to Mohsen Namjoo and his music in The New York Times: The songwriter Mohsen Namjoo stirs things up in Iran. Mr. Namjoo…plays the setar, a long-necked lute, and is steeped in Persian classical and literary traditions. But in Iran, where Western music was banned in 2005, Mr. Namjoo decided to fuse Persian music…
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Celebrating the 15 Percent
In response to the backlash generated by this Cheerios commercial, a beautiful Tumblr blog voices support for interracial families and brings them to the limelight. We Are the 15 Percent showcases a crowd-sourced collection of photos of mixed couples and families, captioned with names and locations. Michael David Murphy and Alyson West created their Tumblr blog,…