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Abdalah Rached

@abdalahrached

I'm an old dog always learning new tricks...

 Sao Paulo, Brazil
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Joined November 2009
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WFMU@WFMU6 Nov 2024
R.I.P. Quincy Jones. rollingstone.com/music/music…
Quincy Jones: 20 Great Productions

Quincy Jones: 20 Great Productions

Quincy Jones has died at age 91. We look back on 20 highlights from gamechanging production career with Michael Jackson, Ray Charles, and many others

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A great action film for every year, 1924 to now. bfi.org.uk/lists/great-actio…
A great action film for every year, 1924 to now

A great action film for every year, 1924 to now

The story of action cinema – year by year, blow by blow.

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WFMU@WFMU26 Oct 2024
Memories of Rare Music Can Persist for Many Years. thebeliever.net/lost-ones/
Lost Ones - Believer Magazine

Lost Ones - Believer Magazine

Decades later, Ben Ratliff, former pop music critic at The New York Times, can recall the details of a song he heard once, but that it is impossible for you to listen to. I’m sorry to report that it...

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WFMU@WFMU24 Oct 2024
The Camera That Went to the Moon. npr.org/2019/07/13/735314929…

The Camera That Went To The Moon And Changed How We See It

Astronaut Walter Schirra's decision to bring a Swedish-made Hasselblad on his Mercury spaceflight set the course for NASA's choice of the camera for the Apollo lunar program.

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WFMU@WFMU18 Oct 2024
A collection of old Swedish packaging. presentandcorrect.com/blogs/…
Swede dreams.

Swede dreams.

This collection of old Swedish packaging is just a fraction of what you can find if you click here. All images come from the Digital Museum archive, which compiles all exhibits from Sweden's museums.

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WFMU@WFMU15 Oct 2024
The creepy sounds the earth made when its magnetic field flipped (h/t Dan Bodah). futurism.com/the-byte/magnet…
The Creepy Sounds the Earth Made When Its Magnetic Field Flipped Will Haunt Your Dreams

The Creepy Sounds the Earth Made When Its Magnetic Field Flipped Will Haunt Your Dreams

Tens of thousands of years ago, Earth's magnetic field flipped — and scientists have recreated the haunting sound it made.

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WFMU@WFMU13 Oct 2024
Neil Young: The Ragged Genius of his Musical Multiverse. johnsongreen.media/2023/09/2…
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WFMU@WFMU11 Oct 2024
A research group and comprehensive website devoted to occlupanids (those little plastic clips on bags of bread). horg.com/horg

Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group

This site contains ongoing research in the classification of occlupanids.

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WFMU@WFMU8 Oct 2024
Spell out your name In Landsat images. landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/Y…
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WFMU@WFMU3 Oct 2024
Grateful Dead Nights Are Taking Over MLB. Here’s How That Happened. rollingstone.com/music/music…
Grateful Dead Nights Are Taking Over MLB. Here’s How That Happened

Grateful Dead Nights Are Taking Over MLB. Here’s How That Happened

Grateful Dead Nights Are Taking Over MLB. Here’s How That Happened

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WFMU@WFMU29 Sep 2024
Robbie Robertson interviewed. mojo4music.com/articles/stor…

Robbie Robertson: “I said to Dylan, there’s too many verses in this...”

In remembrance of Robbie Robertson, who passed away on this day two years ago, MOJO revisits our 2017 interview with The Band’s guitarist and songwriter.

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WFMU@WFMU28 Sep 2024
On "Nardis," the tune that Miles Davis claimed only Bill Evans could play correctly. thebeliever.net/broken-time/
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Broken Time - Believer Magazine

I. It was supposed to be the best day of Richard “Blue” Mitchell’s life, but June 30, 1958, turned out to be one of the worst. The trumpeter had been summoned to New York City from Miami for a...

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WFMU@WFMU1 Sep 2024
Ancient Babylonian Tablets Are Finally Deciphered. They’re Full of Bad News (h/t Monica). news.artnet.com/art-world/an…

Ancient Babylonian Tablets Are Finally Deciphered. They're Full of Bad News | Artnet News

Scholars have now translated the oldest known Babylonian tablets discussing lunar eclipses and their omens.

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WFMU@WFMU30 Aug 2024
Syd Barrett's floorboards to go on show at Sussex pub. sussexexpress.co.uk/news/peo…

Unique piece of Pink Floyd memorabilia to go on show at Sussex pub

When Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett painted the floorboards of his London flat blue and orange in 1969, he could never have imagined that over fifty years later, they would be the subject of an...

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WFMU@WFMU25 Aug 2024
The Blue Collar Jobs of Philip Glass. honest-broker.com/p/the-blue…
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10 Sounds That Can’t Be Scientifically Explained. listverse.com/2024/08/04/10-…

10 Sounds That Can't Be Scientifically Explained

There are thousands of mysteries across the globe that have yet to be explained, but did you know that some of them deal with sounds? Scientists have

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WFMU@WFMU18 Aug 2024
33 films that either faked ingesting LSD or did (h/t @bourgwick). denniscooperblog.com/33-film…
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WFMU@WFMU16 Aug 2024
Gena Rowlands: performance from the inside out. bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/f…

Gena Rowlands: performance from the inside out

An ode to the legendary actress, written for our October 1995 issue.

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Every Radiohead album ranked. mojo4music.com/articles/the-…
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WFMU@WFMU26 Jul 2024
What did Stonehenge sound like? bbc.com/travel/article/20230…
What did Stonehenge sound like?

What did Stonehenge sound like?

New research into the prehistoric site's acoustical properties is revealing that the stone circle may have been used for exclusive ceremonies.

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