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This Ghost Nebula is No Fake Sandy Photo
Join Trace as he calls out the fake photos of Hurricane Sandy, gets creeped out by a ghost nebula and finally explains how the giant moai statues were moved around on Easter Island!
sorry to hurt your feelings social media, but these all be fake.
As Hurricane Sandy clobbered the the most populated region of the United States, many people took to social media and the Internet to receive and circulate information about what experts called a 100-year storm.
As is typically the case with natural disasters — especially in this digital age — viral photos quickly put a face on the catastrophe. However, it turns out many of the most popular images pinballing around the Internet during the storm were either fake or outdated. Even major media outlets got duped.
The Subway Looks Kind of Creepy When Its Empty
It’s a rare sight to behold in the city of 24-hour everything.
[Image: Flickr/MTA]
And also surprisingly clean.
I wonder what it sounds like down there…
*Yes, this has been Photoshopped.
Mars Rover Curiosity Makes it to Times Square
NASA is following up its popular “Seven Minutes of Terror” movie trailer, which previews Monday’s landing (hopefully) of its new Mars rover, with a live broadcast on one of the most famous screens in the world — Times Square.
One word: epic.
NYC Viewing sites for tonight's 6 pm transit of Venus across the sun.
For those in New York City
From the NYTimes—
Back for a second season, we’re streaming live from a window ledge overlooking Washington Square Park, where a pair of red-tailed hawks incubated two eggs, both of which have hatched.
Life As An Italian American Sikh Female Taxi Driver In New York
Maria Provenzano Singh bridges a divide.
“Sikhs are very much like the Italians”
Click here to hear her tell her story (made mostly amazing by the way she tells it) to BBC News.
A group of New Yorkers are painting white the roofs of 20 buildings managed by the Cooper Square Mutual Housing Association in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
Hurricane Irene possibly about to ruin your weekend, East Coasters
Yeah, that’s possibly heading for DC, too: Days after the U.S. capitol felt an earthquake for probably the first time ever, they may just have to deal with a Category 2 hurricane. Hurricane Irene, which has been picking up steam for a few weeks, looks most certain to hit North Carolina as a Category 3, and will likely go up the coast, possibly hitting such hurricane-prone locales as DC, NYC and Boston along the way. Hoping it’s just a brush, kids. source
