Borat does a interview on a comedy central telethon to promote his “moviefilm” Borat

North America’s largest copper mine—a vast open-pit complex in Arizona—usually has to process a ton of ore in order to produce ten pounds of pure copper; Walter Luhrman’s mine, by contrast, yielded the same ten pounds from just thirty or forty pounds of ore. Luhrman operated profitably until mid-December, 2006, when the federal government shut him down.The copper deposit that Luhrman worked wasn’t in the ground; it was in the storage vaults of Federal Reserve banks, and, indirectly, in the piggy banks, coffee cans, automobile ashtrays, and living-room upholstery of ordinary Americans. Luhrman, who had previously owned a company that refined gold and silver, devised a method of rapidly separating pre-1982 pennies from more recent ones, which are ninety-seven and a half per cent zinc, a less valuable commodity.

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Morton Grodzins studied integrating American neighborhoods in the early 1960s. He discovered that most of the white families would remain in the neighborhood so long as the comparative number of black families remained very small. But, at a certain point, when “one too many” black families arrived, the remaining white families would move out en masse in a process known as white flight. He called that moment the “tipping point.”

White flight is a term for the demographic trend where working- and middle-class white people move away from increasingly racial-minority inner-city neighborhoods to white suburbs and exurbs. The phenomenon was first named in the United States, but has occurred in other countries as well. Some scholars have noted the impact of redlining, mortgage discrimination, and racially restrictive covenants on white flight: these factors denied or increased the cost of services, such as banking and insurance, to residents in minority inner-city neighborhoods. Some social scientists suggest that the historical processes of suburbanization and decentralization are instances of white privilege that have contributed to contemporary patterns of environmental racism. In some of the largest cities in the United States, the trend started to reverse itself in the 1990s through a process called gentrification.

The effects of the phenomenon have been significant, particularly in the cities of Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Los Angeles, Santa Ana, California, Washington DC, Memphis, Houston, Cleveland, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Newark and New Orleans, all of which lost more than half of their white populations; but it has affected every metropolitan area in the United States.

The Tipping Point became Malcolm  Gladwell’s bestseller on the New York Times. Tipping points are “the levels at which the momentum for change becomes unstoppable.” Gladwell defines a tipping point as a sociological term, “the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point.” The book seeks to explain and describe enormous and “mysterious” sociological changes that mark everyday life. As Gladwell states, “Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread like viruses do.”

you can view a preview of this book here, and buy it on Amazon.com here.

Always clear your history before doing an interview, Interviewer always proof the videos you broadcast. Check out this video of an interview of allofmp3.com founder.

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Turns out he did it on purpose and blogged about it before the interview. Hilarity ensured.

Check out these 22 creative photographs at this Italian website

I don’t miss her, but I miss you. You are the only cat I ever liked…and I think you liked me as I’m the only person you let pick up and walk around with. Sure, you were crabby, sounded like a rusty can when you were meowing, would ignore the laser pointer and got pissed at me when I needed to work and not pet you. Oh sure, you’d complain and make me feel bad for feeding you the same thing and at the same time as her other 2 cats, but did you notice I’d always slip you a piece of meat from my dinner plate? I know you were old and stairs were not as easy as they used to be, so I was always secretly glad and flattered to hear your voice by the bedroom door when I’d stay over. I know her kids liked the other animals in the house more then you, and I’m sorry, but I liked you better then her kids anyway. And yes, I know you watched me walk away that last time I left; I knew I wouldn’t be coming back so I hope you found that catnip mouse I left in your secret hiding spot…you deserved 1 last rush in your old age.

I’m not sure if you are even still alive as I haven’t been by the house since March of 05, but I hope that you are happy, warm and still catching the beam of sunlight in your favorite spot.

Anyway, just wanted you to know that you were the only cool cat I’ve ever known and that I miss you.

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One step closer to immortality, this video CBS news: Manufacturing body parts, from blood vessels to muscle tissue.

DragonBlood Tree from Yemen:

Picture shows the Dragon Blood tree on the virtually untouched Yemeni Island of Socotra, a site of global importance for biodiversity conservation, located in the northwestern Indian Ocean, some 350km south of the Arabian Peninsula. (AFP/Khaled Fazaa)

Similar yet vastly different to the Pinheiro from Brazil.

Someone took a collection of the directors movies and clipped them together for our amusement.

Quentin Tarantino:

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In 1971 a search for gas went wrong when a whole drilling rig fell into an underground cavern. Natural gas started coming up from the hole. It was set alight so it wouldn’t kill everything around. For 35 years now the flames keep burning providing an spectacular scene for tourists. At night the burning gas makes the crater viewable from miles away. The “Darvaza” or “Burning Gates” crater is located in Turkmenistan in the heart of the Karakum desert. Video after break:
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A rare wild jaguar seen and photographed in the United States by hunter Warner Glenn is bayed by hounds during a hunting trip at an unknown location in southwestern New Mexico, February 20, 2006. Glenn and other members of his hunting party caught the hounds and led them away after they cornered the jaguar. The male jaguar, which weighed around 200 pounds, left the site at a slow trot unharmed. Jaguars are extremely rare in the United States, and Glenn is believed to be the only person to have encountered and photographed one in the wild. Photograph taken February 20, 2006. (Warner Glenn/Handout/Reuters)

In the first of Ghaith Abdul-Ahad’s extraordinary series of films to mark the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, he investigates the claims that the US military surge is bringing stability to Iraq. By traveling through the heart of Baghdad he exposes how, by enclosing the Sunni and Shia populations behind 12ft walls, the surge has left the city more divided and desperate than ever.

Video at source –> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2008/mar/17/baghdad.city.of.walls