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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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Watch: New Trailer to PT Anderson’s The Master
Paul Thomas Anderson’s upcoming film The Master continues its mysterious yet viral campaign. The last trailer showcased Joaquin Phoenix’s troubled character, while this one introduces Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s and Amy Adam’s roles.
Seymour Hoffman plays the role of the titular Master, Lancaster Dodd, the man who will provide guidance to Phoenix’s sailor. We already know that Dodd will be a war veteran and founder of a religious organization called “The Cause.” In this trailer, “Hopelessly Inquisitive,” Dodd describes himself as such, along with “a writer, doctor, a nuclear physicist, and a theoretical philosopher.” Does this solidify the much-rumored parallels to Scientology-founder L. Ron Hubbard? It seems so.
We also see a bit of Amy Adam’s in 50s, possibly 40s garb, and Joaquin Phoenix in a jail cell.
The trailer is brilliantly done, set against a Jonny Greenwood score that sounds all-too-familiar. The Master will find a limited release in October and should be in wide release by the end of 2012.