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The first of my new travel VLOG series bought to you from the remote Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia. Everyday for the next 12 days I'll share ...
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Freddie Mercury, who studied art and graphic design at Ealing Art College, designed the Queen emblem. Mercury also came up with the name “Queen” for the band, calling “a strong name, very universal and immediate” and “open to all sorts of interpretations.” All four members of Queen were well-educated, and at least two were geeks as well. Guitarist Brian May, who earned his Ph.D in astrophysics in 2007, built his own guitar. Bassist John Deacon was an electronics engineer who built some of the band’s equipment including its trademark Deacy Amplifiers. Queen not only recorded 18 chart-topping singles, every member of the band wrote at least one of the 18 singles. “Another One Bites the Dust” never was meant to be a single until Michael Jackson caught a performance in Los Angeles and convinced Queen to issue it as a single. Mercury owned as many as 10 cats, dedicating an album and a song – “Mr. Bad Guy” – to his feline friends. Mercury’s familiar mic stand stick – a microphone with the upper half of the stand but not the lower half – happened by accident. When his mic stand snapped in two during a performance early in Queen's career, Mercury carried on with the show and discovered he liked the unusual arrangement. Queen won the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution in 1990. All four members of the band came to the stage to accept the award. It was Mercury's last appearance in front of an audience before his death in 1991 from AIDS-complicated pneumonia. Freddie Mercury's birth name was Farrokh Bulsara. He and his family were Parsi, originally from India, who practiced the Zoroastrian religion. He legally changed his name to Freddie Mercury around 1970 when Queen was formed. When asked what one of Queen's most famous songs, “Bohemian Rhapsody” meant, Mercury replied, "It bears no real meaning. It's all rhyming nonsense."
You’ve probably seen this effect—perhaps you are a victim of it. You feel alienated from mainstream culture and want to make a statement that you are not part of it. You think about wearing different clothes, experimenting with a new hairstyle, or even trying unconventional makeup and grooming products. And yet when you finally reveal your new look to the world, it turns out you are not alone—millions of others have made exactly the same choices. Indeed, you all look more or less identical, the exact opposite of the countercultural statement you wanted to achieve. This is the hipster effect—the counterintuitive phenomenon in which people who oppose mainstream culture all end up looking the same. Similar effects occur among investors and in other areas of the social sciences.
Normally a headline like "The hipster effect: Why anti-conformists always end up looking the same" would elicit much rolling of eyes here at Vulture Towers. However, it becomes more intriguing when one learns that the hypothesis described in the article was tested by a series of hilarious post-publication events that then further bolstered the paper's findings. At the end of February, MIT Technology Review emitted a pithy rundown of a 34-page research paper from maths-modelling boffins at Brandeis University in the US; the paper essentially posited that in a bid to make that all-important "countercultural statement", hipsters can end up looking alike. For groovy models of how random acts by hipsters "undergo a phase transition into a synchronized state" – along with some knotty network equations.
Music video by Queen performing Another One Bites The Dust. (C) 2007 Queen
*Please note that the pricing structure for the Trekker has changed slightly since this review was shot. It's now $750 for a kit with the bracelet, rubber st...
