Nathan Lustig

Roger Ebert inspires me.  He used to inspire me to go out and see a movie based on his reviews, but now he inspires me on a completely different level.  I just read Roger Ebert: The Essential Man in this month’s Esquire and learned about Ebert’s story.  In 2002, he was diagnosed with thyroid cancer [...]

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Over the past week, I have been incredibly inspired by Jake Wood and the rest of Team Rubicon’s privately funded relief effort in Haiti.  Wood and his team were fed up with the bureaucracy and red tape associated with providing relief in Haiti, so they took matters into their own hands.
Jake Wood, who is about [...]

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Over the past year, I’ve found myself paying attention to British media and have just about completely tuned out the American media.  The only news show I watch is BBC World News America.  I read the Economist, look at BBC.com, the Daily Telegraph, the Financial Times and The Guardian.  I probably watch BBC America 2-3 [...]

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I know it’s a little late for a year end review, but I thought I finally have time to finish this post.  I wanted to take a look at some of my favorite things from 2009 and take a look ahead to some interesting thing for 2010.
2009 was a fun year.  I graduated with a [...]

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I started the decade as the class of 2000, about to finish up 8th grade.  I was 14 years old and remember going to y2k party at a friends house, wondering if the lights were going to shut off because of y2k.   I thought 24 was really old and couldn’t imagine being that old.  [...]

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Sometimes it is good to take a step back from everything and just marvel at the universe.  I came across these pictures today on Boston.com and they are simply amazing. They are from NASA’s Cassini probe, which is orbiting around Saturn and sending back images like these:

View 20 more pictures here.

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