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- When in Rome… Make Better Concrete: How An Ancient Mix Beats Today’s Best
June 18, 2013 | 10:40 pmFrom the Hoover Dam and the Burj Khalifa to the Panama Canal, concrete underlies the greatest of modern architectural achievements. But modern concrete, it seems, doesn’t hold a candle to Ancient Rome’s. A little history for you: the Romans were the first to engineer concrete in mass, and it was upon this concrete that they [...]
- Google Wants Balloon Internet for Everybody
June 15, 2013 | 11:06 am“Balloons. That’s right. Balloons,” says the voice of a young girl in a video for Google’s latest endeavor: bringing the world online with massive balloons. The initiative, called Project Loon, comes from Google X, the experimental lab within the company whose sole purpose is to dream up big, borderline insane, ideas. Google X created self-driving [...]
- Watch Researchers Discover a Sunken Egyptian City
June 13, 2013 | 9:36 pmThonis, the legendary port city that served as an entryway to the Egyptian empire, was long considered to be a myth. The tales of its immense power and vast riches conflicted with the evidence of its existence—mainly that there was none. Cities of such grandeur do not typically disappear off the face of the earth. [...]
- “I Am The Nucleus” and Other Bizarre Quotes By Kanye West
June 12, 2013 | 10:06 amKanye West says the darndest things. On his unrelenting quest to become his own species of hip-hop artist, he has established a reputation as irreverent, controversial, and unapologetic. Though he makes time for public grandstanding by claiming a US President “doesn’t care about black people” or interrupting the VMAs, he remains mostly quiet when it [...]
- 50 Charities, 10 Years, $1 Billion Wasted
June 11, 2013 | 12:38 pmIn Holiday, Florida, sits a warehouse. From the outside, it looks like nothing special, but as a joint investigative report from the Tampa Bay Times and the Center for Investigative Reporting uncovered, inside is one of the most useless charity in America: Kids Wish Network. For every dollar it raises, a mere 3 cents goes [...]
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Hear Two New Childish Gambino Tracks
Donald Glover is at it again: the actor/comedian/rapper has seen the release of two new tracks in the past week under his Childish Gambino moniker. The first features Flynt Flossy and Yung Humma from the infamous Turquoise Jeep crew and is an indictment of music bloggers everywhere. The second, released late Monday by In Flex We Trust, features ScHoolboy Q and claims to be the first material from an upcoming mixtape.
“Fuck Your Blog,” the Turquoise Jeep collaboration, opens with Flossy and Humma detailing their own disagreements with the blogging industry. The lines are classic Turquoise Jeep: “No time for babies/ All the credit to the fans who ladies” quips Humma in the second verse. Gambino doesn’t disappoint, managing to critique most of the Internet in his verse. Following the release, he announced via twitter that “Fuck Your Blog” wasn’t complete when it debuted a few days ago:
Perhaps a fuller version will be released in the future. Check out the track below:
The second new release to discuss is titled “Unnecessary” and includes verses by Black Hippy member ScHoolboy Q. The track is a bit more traditional Gambino and a logical next step from last year’s CAMP. A release date the rest of the upcoming mixtape has not been announced.