Bill Hicks took stand-up comedy to new heights – and depths – but died at just 32, on the brink of global fame. A hard-edged new biopic reveals and intense and dark young comic.
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Category Life and Death
USSR Planned Nuke Attack on China 1969
The Soviet Union was on the brink of launching a nuclear attack against China in 1969 and only backed down after the US told Moscow such a move would start World War Three, according to a Chinese historian.
Strange History of the Sunflower
Resurrect Dead On Planet Jupiter
Something is wrong in Jupiter. Astronomer Anthony Wesley’s photos show that one of its two dark stripes is gone. Maybe Sir Arthur C. Clarke was right and the gas giant will turn into a star to jumpstart life in Europa.
But no, even while it’s 2010, the process has happened before. It’s a phenomenon called South Equatorial Belt Disturbance, and it happens every three to fifteen years. The dark reddish brown—caused by sulfur and phosphorous mixed with ammonia crystals at 108 degrees below zero—fades away. At the same time, the Great Red Spot—a fiery anticyclonic storm that can reach 40,000 kilometers in diameter—gets darker.
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Size Matters: Eavesdropping on Sexual Signals
Adult male crickets produce loud song to attract females, but the song, which permeates the environment, can be overheard also by unintended receivers – such as young males unable to produce song due to a mutation they carry.
Until now researchers have not understood how non-singing male crickets use the song of singing males to modify their behavior or physical attributes to their advantage.
Now biologists at the University of California, Riverside have shed light on this mystery.
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