Warped Tour ending; Summer to continue

Warped Tour; KROQ.cbslocal.com; Wisdom Quarterly

Tanning Warped Tour crowd watches The Used’s frontman (Photo: Cody Black)

 

Don't kiss in a car in the woods (AM)

The corporate-sponsored Warped Tour is wrapping up. The annual alternative fest encourages indie rock and sometimes gets it, but not most of the time. Still, it's something to do when it gets so hot that all you want to do is stand in the sun in a parking lot made of black asphalt with kids and their parents while skateboarders naff off on their boards and post-grungified acts strum along. At least there's a chance of seeing some real punk with the pop, Anyway, tattoos need replacing because who knew they fade in the sun?
 

AIDS 2015 from Zach Galifianakis     

• Warped Tour Diary
• Warped Tour Volunteer Day
• Kaskade to conquer Los Angeles
• Pussy Riot still persecuted by Putin
• 50 FREE concerts in Los Angeles
• Musica en Movimiento Fest (OC)
• Geek Moms kick @$$
• Make love not war, US military 
• Hitchhiker's Guide: Wikipedia as history
• Weather Wars Watch: Drowning Beijing
• Jail violence initiated by guards, undersheriff
• Free online nutrition book
• Pot shops to close; green thumbs needed
• Killing and sex offending even on parole
• VIDEO: Catholic priest arrested for molesting teen, women

VIDEO: America's first female astronaut dies fighting cancer

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"Topless Warriors" of FEMEN (video)

PripyatPripyat; FEMEN.livejournal.com; Wisdom Quarterly

WARNING: Nudity! FEMEN is a Kiev, Ukraine-based group of activists and topless protesters.

This is a documentary from Finnish TV about the Ukrainian female rights organization FEMEN (WARNING: nudity). English subtitles added: click the CC-button (located on the bottom of the video screen, above the number of video views). The Finnish subtitles are hard coded and could not be removed. The English subtitles are present simply by clicking the CC.

• PHOTOS: Topless protests in Europe (allvoices.com)

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Science: It's a girl thing! (comedy video)

Wisdom Quarterly; Alba502 (EU video)
What might a sexist commercial about men look like if society wanted less science out of us and more self-defeating behavior like alcohol and pornography addiction?
   

The following public service announcement (PSA) was published by the science commission of the European Union. It is part of a campaign designed to attract more females to a career in science. The commission says the inadvertently sexist video has to "speak their language to get their attention."

   

They add that it was intended to be "fun, catchy" and strike a chord with young people. "I would encourage everyone to have a look at the wider campaign and the many videos already online of female researchers talking about their jobs and lives," the commission added.

(Seattle P.I.) A European Union PSA was supposed to encourage girls to consider a career in the sciences. Instead, it turned out to be a big embarrassment, with critics (and pretty much everyone) saying it’s sexist and insulting... peppered with the words “lipstick,” “stiletto,” and “gawking dude.” More

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China rockets into space (video)

Steve Chao, Al Jazeera English, June 16, 2012

GOBI DESERT - China's latest space mission has successfully lifted off with the country's first female taikonaut. It is the next step in China's strategy to build a permanently-occupied space station of its own. It is now in a position to reveal the truth about the Moon, its archeological artifacts, stations, and occupants. The West's military-industrial complex must negotiate with the world's largest country and quite possibly its strongest economy if it has any hope of it maintaining the silence.

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