2011
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Science Saturday
See a supernova from your back yard. This little piece in Wired on the discovery of the earliest known human tools in interesting not just for the discovery information, but for the way the writer breaks down how scientists pegged…
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Saturday Morning Links
So an hour after this goes up, I’ll be leading an informal wine-tasting. My new job has its perks. I’ll probably be the only one spitting, though. What would you do for a free hotel room? A reminder that we…
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Laura Goode is Broke
Rumpus contributor and author Laura Goode is Broke-Ass Stuart’s Broke Ass of the Week!
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Bel Canto to Bulgaria: The Rumpus Interview with Garth Greenwell
Garth Greenwell’s first novella, Mitko, won the 2010 Miami University Press Novella Contest. Greenwell discusses “gay identity,” loneliness abroad, and art songs with Shara Lessley.
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Today’s Weather
Right now New York is calm, and this of course feels eerie. It’s a good time to catch the last weekend of Today’s Weather at Sit and Read in Williamsburg. Zero1 Magazine just ran my catalog essay for the exhibition.…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Researchers have created a genetic computer that can be used to find and kill specific cancer cells. India is trying to help the poor by creating a biometric database of everyone in the country. An Apple employee left a super…
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A Gadabout Eye
Like a firestorm and the weather it creates, the poems in this collection occur in an amorphous space where the forms—and the elements with which Savich fills them—are constantly changing.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I hope y’all are ready for transparent skin. 1970s art manifesto houses! Attention: outer space has way too much junk in it’s outer space trunk. Seriously dudes, soviet-era art and design is the best. Dolphin death is the saddest, but…
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Albums of Our Lives: Dusty Springfield’s Dusty in Memphis
Once I dated the son of a preacher man. Later, I dated the son of a preacher woman.
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Poor Word Choice and its Consequences
Maya Angelou is ruffling some feathers with a recent statement insulting the choice of words that are splayed across the side of the new Martin Luther King Jr. Monument in Washington: “I was a drum major for justice peace and…
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Young Journalists in a Cut-Throat World
There’s yet another example of underpaid and undervalued journalists, this time from the campaign bus. Budget cutbacks have filled these buses with fledging reporters, in contrast to the seasoned political journalists that once occupied those very seats. Mid twenty years…
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Obscured Greatness
Bookslut zeroes in on the seemingly perpetual obscurity of women’s work in the arts. Looking at artists like Lee Krasner, Leonor Fini, and Mina Loy,—the spaces and roles that they were pushed into, along with the often intangible forms of…