[Amazing] Link25 (190) – The Purple Rain Edition
This week has been a particularly sad week. Prince, and icon of music and the Mozart of our times, died at the young age of 57. Many are mourning in various ways whether via tributes, songs, blog posts, and art. But then again, Prince touched all our lives with his incredible genius, how can we not mourn and remember him in our own ways. Remember the icon, the legend that is Prince with us with this special Link25 (190) The Purple Rain Edition.
South Station will be illuminated in purple on Thursday night to pay tribute to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame musician Prince Rogers Nelson.
The legendary artist passed away at the age of 57 on Thursday morning, according to his publicist Yvette Noel-Schure. Prince was found unresponsive in an elevator when police arrived on the scene, responding to a medical call from the music icon’s Paisley Park home in Chanhassen, Minnesota. (Click the title to read the full article)
The judge knew that Sgt. Joseph Serna had been through a lot.
The former Special Forces soldier did four combat tours in Afghanistan over a nearly two-decades-long career with the U.S. Army. Through those years, the Fayetteville Observer reported, Serna was almost killed three times: once, by a roadside bomb, then again by a suicide bomber.
During a tour in 2008, Serna and three other soldiers were driving down a narrow dirt road in Kandahar when their armored truck toppled into a canal, the Associated Press reported. As water filled the vehicle, Serna struggled to escape. (Click on the title to read the full article)
The Hubble Space Telescope’s 26th birthday is coming up, and NASA is celebrating the day with a doozy of a video that shows an enormous space balloon.
A series of images taken by Hubble shows a super-hot star blowing a massive bubble in space. Nicknamed the “Bubble Nebula,” it spans about 7 light-years across. The star creating the bubble is about 45 times the mass of our sun. (Click on the title to read the full article)
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London Bridge has well and truly fallen down in the new Independence Day: Resurgence trailer. It looks like the city — which has frequently been nuked, crashed onto, and otherwise trashed on the big screen — will receive its most fiery beating yet in the Independence Day sequel. In fact, it seems like it has a fairly major collision with cities that are usually thousands of miles away.
But that’s not all. The trailer also treats us to more glimpses of the post-alien invasion Earth, including (potentially) the demise of one of the original film’s main characters, and the (Click on the title to read the full article).
Three decades ago, the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger was one of the biggest stories of the year. But that year also saw hearings in the Iran-Contra affair, the re-opening of the Statue of Liberty after a long renovation, the fall of President Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines, and the crash of Aeromexico Flight 498 above Los Angeles. Photographers were also busy documenting the lives of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Joan Jett, Spike Lee, Halle Berry, Mike Tyson, and many others. Take a step into (click on the title to read the full article)
On Thursday morning, legendary musician Prince passed, leaving a nation of fans in mourning. His music and image will undoubtedly live on in many forms, but if you’d like to keep a tiny piece of his digital legacy on your computer, you can install his original, cherished Love Symbol as a font. (click on the title to read the full article).
Jonathan Gessner said he saw the tiger crouching down. At first, he was scared, Gessner told the Houston Chronicle.But he approached the animal anyway.
“The closer I got, she started shaking her butt, like cat getting in attack mode, you know?” he said. “I thought about turning around, but I was like, ‘nah, I want to see what she does.’” (Click on the title to read the full article)
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The delegations of 175 countries gathered at the U.N. headquarters in New York City Friday, Earth Day, to sign the Paris Agreement on climate change. Here’s a quick primer on what it is, who’s signing, and why it’s important.
What is it?
An international agreement to bring down pollution levels (carbon emissions), which in turn would slow global warming and prevent disastrous environmental outcomes. It’s name comes from the city where the negotiations took place in Dec. 2014.
The agreement’s goal is to keep “the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial levels.”
The 1.5 degrees Celsius level was pushed hard by small, low-lying island nations, which (Click the title to read the full article).
Giant Bomb reports that Sony is not only planning an updated version of the PlayStation 4 in anticipation of both 4K video content and its upcoming PlayStation VR platform, but that hardware specifications have been locked down in advance of an unknown release window. Austin Walker reports that according to multiple sources, the new console, codenamed “NEO” — likely an allusion to PlayStation VR’s working codename, (click on the title to read the full article).
Google added a new Doodle to its website on Thursday, with a purple logo caught in a storm of “Purple Rain” in honor of Prince.
The Doodle links to Prince-related music videos, news stories and websites.
The company also tweeted the image, complete with a quote from the pop star’s hit song “Let’s Go Crazy.” (click on the title to read the full article).
