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Leo DiCaprio — Too Cool to Pedal

Filed under: Leonardo DiCaprio , Paparazzi Photo , Ride Me Leonardo DiCaprio doesn’t have time to pedal a bicycle like the rest of the plebeians — he rides around NYC in a bicycle with a motor attached to it. It’s the stuff dreams are made of. Read more

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Massive Coral Bleaching Damages 95% of Corals in Philippines

Photo via Sarah Depper As much as 95% of the corals in the Philippines have suffered bleaching after the 2009-2010 El Niño event that boosted the temperatures in the Indian Ocean and waters off Southeast Asia during the beginning of this year. Warmer water is often responsible for bleaching (the die-off of symbiotic algae living on the corals) and we usually hear about corals impacted in the Caribbean. But such a massive bleaching as this in the Philippines is a rare and particularly distressing news item as the possibility for recovery of b… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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NYC Grad Students Reimagine Disaster Relief (Photos)

All Images Courtesy of Pratt Institute At an exhibition at the Pratt Insitute’s Brooklyn Campus last Thursday, two graduate industrial design students presented to the public their ambitious idea for revolutionizing disaster relief efforts worldwide. The students, Mike Seto and David Kim, focused on the recovery stage of relief, rather than the immediate post-disaster response, and the result is (project) PL : a way to provide disaster victims with communal, transportable, a… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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TMZ Live: Lohan, Gibson, and ‘American Idol’

Filed under: Mel Gibson , Oksana Grigorieva , Ricki Lake , TMZ Live , American Idol , Fox , Celebrity Justice , ABC , Madonna , Music , Stalker We took your questions today on everything — including Mel Gibson’s letter to Oksana Grigorieva , Lindsay Lohan may be heading back to jail, and the bad omen for ” American Idol .” Plus: Madonna fan arrested outside her NYC apartment. Read more

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Puffy’s Baby Momma in her Bikini of the Day

Her name is Sarah Champan. She was smart enough to get knocked up with Puff Daddy’s fifth child as his Third Baby Momma because shit comes with a retirement plan. Here she is in a bikini on the beach in Miami because her life is now a fucking vacation. You see, cuz Puffy makes stupid money, and stupid money can afford to send a bitch 100k a month to get her to fuck off and leave him alone when he would rather be fucking groupies and making hits than taking some annoying kid to little league. Being a dad fucks up his flow. I know this first hand because this white Jewish girl I used to have on Facebook was fucking Diddy in NYC for a while. He’d fly her to San Diego and other places to fuck him, but he’d never be seen with her in public…He wouldn’t give her taxi money, alot of the time he’d make her just rub his head and the whole thing went down while his twins were being born…. He’s too rich to be normal or a good husband or a good dad and who really cares about how fucked up his kids are going to be, when you can stare and the tits who scammed his black ass…. Puff Daddy Puffy’s Baby Momma in her Bikini of the Day Her name is Sarah Champan. She was smart enough to get knocked up with Puff Daddy’s fifth child as his Third Baby Momma because shit comes with a retirement plan. Here she is in a bikini on the beach in Miami because her life is now a fucking vacation. You see, cuz Puffy makes stupid money, and stupid money can afford to send a bitch 100k a month to get her to fuck off and leave him alone when he would rather be fucking groupies and making hits than taking some annoying kid to little league. Being a dad fucks up his flow. I know this first hand because this white Jewish girl I used to have on Facebook was fucking Diddy in NYC for a while. He’d fly her to San Diego and other places to fuck him, but he’d never be seen with her in public…He wouldn’t give her taxi money, alot of the time he’d make her just rub his head and the whole thing went down while his twins were being born…. He’s too rich to be normal or a good husband or a good dad and who really cares about how fucked up his kids are going to be, when you can stare and the tits who scammed his black ass….

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Today on Planet 100: The US at a Climate Tipping Point? (Video)

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Bicycle – The Freedom Machine

(Photo insert: Warren McLaren /inov8) This post is part of series written by TreeHugger contributors about trading in your car for a bike for trips that are two miles or less in distance. The series is sponsored by the Clif 2-Mile Challenge . Do you remember receiving your first bicycle as a child? A seminal moment for many of us. It punctuates that time in our lives when we were enveloped by a sense of unbridled freedom. We were no longer dependent on our parents to shuttle us around the place. We weren’t constrained by bus or train timetables. We could… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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New Melissa Shoes Inspired In The Amazon + Brand Opening Store In NYC

Photos: Melissa.com.br. Responsibly produced and vegan, Melissa shoes are also beautiful looking and always innovating, teaming up with designers such as Zaha Hadid, Vivienne Westwood and John Galliano for amazing new models. Their recently launched new collection Amazonista takes a look at colors and textures from the Brazilian forest, which you’ll be able to find soon at a new store in the Soho area in New York City. More inside…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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‘Catfish’ Trio Discuss Controversial Documentary’s Aftermath

‘We just wanted to start a conversation with this film,’ filmmaker Henry Joost tells MTV News. By Kara Warner Nev Schulman Photo: MTV News Audiences are still talking about “Catfish,” the 2010 Sundance darling and one of the year’s most heavily hyped documentaries. Now that the film has opened in select theaters across the country, more and more people are joining in on the “Is it real?” debate , as well as looking into the nuts and bolts of how the film came to be. In brief, the documentary revolves around NYC-based photographer Nev Schulman and the series of curious events that occur when he begins an online friendship with a precocious 8-year-old artist from a small town in Michigan and a romantic relationship with her older sister. When MTV News caught up with filmmakers Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost, along with Nev, we asked them — without spoiling anything — how the film’s supporting characters are doing back in Michigan. “Things in Michigan are good,” Joost said. “We still have friends there, and they are becoming involved in the marketing of the film in a cool way, designing posters. We’re pretty excited about that.” Joost also said those friends were part of a small art show tied to the film’s New York premiere. Regarding the strong reactions both audiences and critics have had to the film, Joost said there is a common theme. “I’d say maybe not the most common reaction, but a very common reaction is ‘Wow. Now let me tell you what happened to me; let me tell you what happened to my friend or my cousin or my mom,’ ” he said. “It’s incredible how many stories there are like this out there, and I think the film is kind of an open door to tell those stories now, that are sometimes embarrassing but often lead to good things.” Joost added that their goal in making the film was to just get people talking. “We just wanted to start a conversation with this film and just continue the conversation we’ve been having in the editing room for two years,” he said. What do you think of the buzz surrounding “Catfish”? Did the film make you rethink your approach to social networking or online relationships at all? Let us know in the comments! For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com .

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Dems Will Love Morning Joe’s Odd Manifesto Against ‘Angry Voices’

Not sayin’ Rahm wrote it, but . . . In a strange departure from Morning Joe’s typical spontaneity, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski issued what was clearly a scripted, teleprompted, manifesto this morning.  The statement purported to be non-partisan condemnation of “angry voices” and a call, citing a WWII poster, to “keep calm and carry on.”  But even a cursory analysis reveals that the manifesto’s message suits Dem themes to a ‘T’ , and carries clear echoes of a recent partisan speech by Pres. Obama at a political event. The manifesto amounted to a condemnation of the “angry voices” and the “political extremists” who, claimed Scarborough, “are dominating the airwaves and dominating the national debate.” But at this juncture in American political history, the anger is understandably more present on the right. The Dems, after all, control both houses of Congress and the White House, and have used their power to promote a big-government agenda on everything from health care to trillion dollar spending schemes to higher taxes.  You’re darn right we’re angry!  In instructing us to calm down, Joe and Mika are really seeking to sap the vitality from the political movement that threatens to sweep Dems from office. Scarborough approvingly cited recent comments by NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg that “anger is not a government strategy . . . It’s not a way to govern.”  But Bloomberg was in turn echoing comments by PBO at a recent political fundraiser . . . CNN reported PBO’s words in an article entitled “Obama: GOP relying on fear, frustration instead of offering new ideas,” and quoted him as saying: “In a political campaign, the easiest thing the other side can do is ride that anger all the way to Election Day . . . people are hurting and they are understandably frustrated. A lot of them are scared and a lot of them are angry . That dynamic makes it easier to run on a slogan of “cast the bums out . . . but it’s not a vision for the future .” Let’s recapitulate: Obama says anger bad, not a vision for the future.  Scarborough says anger bad, not a way to govern. I’m sure the folks at the White House and the DNC will be delighted by Morning Joe’s manifesto.  They couldn’t have said it better themselves.

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