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Texas Journalists Urge National Press To Take Perry Case More Seriously

Joe Strupp Media Matters
The national media have tended to focus on which potential candidate Perry's indictment might help or hurt. But Texas reporters know Perry has a history of hardball politics, forcing people out of office, and say that we should take the charge of criminal abuse of office seriously.

Science, Religion, and the Big Bang

Science and religion have very different stories of the origin of the universe. But does the question 'What came before?' even make sense?
 

Laniakea: Our Home Supercluster

A team of astronomers based in Hawaii has redrawn the cosmic map, redefining our home supercluster of galaxies, which they name Laniakea (‘immeasurable heaven’ in Hawaiian).
 

Movie: Rosewater

The true story of a journalist detained in Iran for more than 100 days for reporting on Iranian elections. Written and directed by Jon Stewart.
 

Why We Love Beethoven's Fifth

Da da da dum. Three short, one long. Gerard Schwarz takes us inside Beethoven's brilliant improvisations on the most famous short theme in all of music.

Friday Nite Videos -- September 5, 2014

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Why We Love Beethoven's Fifth. Movie: Rosewater. Laniakea: Our Home Supercluster. Science, Religion and the Big Bang. Fast Food Workers Stage Nationwide Actions.

Greece's migrant fruit pickers: 'They kept firing. There was blood everywhere'

Helena Smith The Guardian
Peasant associations, unionists, left-wing parties and anti-racist groups launch a solidarity campaign in Greece following a summer which saw a court set free the men who shot strawberry pickers in Greece the previous year. Thirty-five workers, most from Bangladesh, were injured in the shooting, four of them critically. They had been asking for unpaid back wages. Most migrant farm workers in Greece are without legal papers.