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 Dalai Lama offers historic prayer in U.S. Senate The Dalai Lama offered the opening prayer in the U.S. Senate Thursday, a historic moment for the upper chamber of Congress. Full Story |
 (ThinkStock) Rejoice, spoon-lickers: Eating raw dough unlikely to cause salmonella. Not long ago, I made a marble pound cake. Marble pound cake requires making a vanilla batter, adding chocolate to half of it, and then swirling the batters together in a pan. This meant that once my loaf pan was in the oven, I had two bowls and two spoons coated in sweet, egg-y batter. […] Full Story |
 'Cosmos' aims to raise our gaze heavenward How big is the cosmos? This is both a central question of "Cosmos," the Seth MacFarlane-produced, Neil deGrasse Tyson-hosted reboot of Carl Sagan's widely watched and beloved 1980 miniseries investigating and elucidating our knowledge about the universe, and a question of Fox's, which is premiering the new version on all 10 of its channels this Sunday night, in hopes that an educational program about stars, history, evolution and the universe can once again become a zeitgeist-capturing, hugely rated television event. Full Story |
