Crazy Eddie's Motie News

A happy drum corps May Day to my readers! While the prediction I made last year that today's post would not feature drum corps maypoles in motion came true, I'm taking advantage of today...

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Change of plans. Instead of "the return of more timely topics," as I promised yesterday , I'm sharing another evergreen video, Vox explaining Why US elections only give you two choices . > We�...

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I've written about fast fashion mostly as a tale of the Retail Apocalypse starring Forever 21 , although I have mentioned its environmental costs along the way. Vox gave me an opportunity to r...

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Happy National Superhero Day ! I closed PBS Terra explains 'How Big Business Broke Recycling (And Blamed You)' with a program note and a question. > Stay tuned for a Sunday entertainm...

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I told my readers "I'm sure PBS Terra will upload more in this series for Earth Month . Watch for me to share upcoming episodes here" at the end of For Earth Day, PBS Terra asks 'Stop Saving the ...

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Happy Arbor Day and Flashback Friday! I'm celebrating the original environmental holiday during Earth Month with two videos from PBS Digital about the effectiveness of planting trees to figh...

http://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/04/trees-vs-climate-change-for-arbor-day.html

Happy Throwback Thursday! Today's retrospective covers the most commented on entries during the blog's 13th year. The post with the most responses last year talked about technology . Hmm, commu...

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Happy Wayback Wednesday! I'm continuing with the Keystone State theme from yesterday's Marching music for the Pennsylvania Primary, The Cadets, Buccaneers, and West Chester University with The W...

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Welcome to this year's version of marching music for the Pennsylvania primary . I kick off the music to watch and listen while waiting for results with The Cadets | #DCI2023 | Atlas Rising from...

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Happy Talk Like Shakespeare Day ! To celebrate, I'm sharing NativLang explaining What Shakespeare's English Sounded Like - and how we know . > Botched rhymes, buried puns and a staged ac...

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Happy Earth Day ! Like last year , I'm observing today with a series of videos about fighting climate change , this time from PBS Terra. These take a more heterodox approach, as exemplified by t...

http://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/04/for-earth-day-pbs-terra-asks-stop.html

I have a change of plans for today's Sunday entertainment feature. Instead of the the next installment of marching music for primaries and caucuses being on April 23, 2024 for the Pennsylvani...

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Happy 4/20 ! Instead of blogging about marijuana legalization , I'm sharing The Hazy Evolution of Cannabis by PBS Eons — science ! > How did such a strange plant like cannabis come...

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Happy Flashback Friday! Today's theme is natural disasters from PBS, so I'm sharing Weathered on PBS Terra describing how This Winter Trend Is Overpowering Global Warming . > 2024 was the wa...

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For Throwback Thursday, I'm sharing CityNerd's latest, Long Beach's Innovative Approach to Climate Change . > Long Beach, California. Home of one of the busiest container ports > in�...

http://crazyeddiethemotie.blogspot.com/2024/04/citynerd-mocks-long-beachs-innovative.html

Happy Wayback Wednesday! I'm observing today's social media day by sharing Bright Sun Film's latest, Bankrupt - Borders Book Store . > Since the 1970's, Borders Bookstores have been a p...

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I wrote that "I'm a diabetic and...I consider it to be a central organizing fact of my life" in Today is World Diabetes Day and November is National Diabetes Month . Normally, I'd wait until Worl...

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For Tax Day , I'm sharing There’s a Tax Season Villain, and It’s Not the I.R.S. | NYT Opinion . > It’s the most miserable time of the year: tax season. >  >  Americans are�...

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I foreshadowed today's topic at the end of Troopers, drum corps for the Wyoming Democratic Primary . > Normally, I'd tell my readers to stay tuned for highlights of > tonight's Satu...

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I'm making good on the promise I made in Marching music for the Alaska, Hawaii, and North Dakota Democratic primaries and repeated in NASA experts answer questions about asteroids for Apophis Da...

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Yesterday was Yuri's Night , when I celebrate the promise of space . Today is Apophis Day , when I report on the perils of space, especially asteroids. I'm featuring a series from NASA's archive...

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Happy Yuri's Night AKA International Day for Human Space Flight ! Instead of a retrospective of last year's top posts for today's Flashback Friday, I'm looking back at two tests of spacecraft...

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Happy Throwback Thursday! I'm celebrating by featuring an older video that I should have used years ago, but which happens to fit one of the top posts from the back catalog that doesn't fit any o...

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Happy Wayback Wednesday ! Today's topic is Student Loans . Take it away, John Oliver! > With over 43 million Americans paying off student loans, John Oliver > discusses how so ma...

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I'm examining the eclipse and earthquake one last time through comedy. Take it away, Stephen Colbert with last night's monologue, Strange Eclipse Behavior | NYC’s Earthquake | Mt. Etna Blows ...

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