Last Call! A Sweet Proposal For Sugar Followers
So some of you have been sending in awesome visual representations of your Dear Sugar loyalty. For those of you who haven’t heard yet, we were inspired by the loyal…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Why do Eastern European kids get all the surrealist fun? Way to be land fish! Dali’s Vogue covers are pretty rad to see. When I die I intend to be…
Aimee Nezhukumatathil Interview
Over at HTML giant Roxane Gay interviews Aimee Nezhukumatathil, shedding light on the poet’s influences—from the natural world and family, to language, and more. The conversation turns to her third…
The Cartoon Grind
New Yorker cartoon space is highly coveted. Those illustrated laughs that punctuate essays are the ones that made it through the slough of rejection. It’s tough times for the gag…
Philosophy in Shapes
The project Philographics creates a series of posters “explaining complex philosophical theories through basic shapes.” This piece enlarges some of the posters, so that you can read the brief description…
Economics for Kids
Children’s books are teaching all kinds of lessons and not just the morals-heavy, value-driven ones that are meant to stave off latent delinquency. Read between the lines of children’s lit…
Books to The Future
This Guardian piece challenges the notion that books are doomed, breaking down the “actual state of book publishing in Britain.” Separating anecdote from data, the piece is all about E-books…
Obscure Sorrows
Do you have this? “Ecidivism: n. the habit of closing a browser tab to go do something else, only to absentmindedly return to the website you just left, which is…
The Rumpus Interview with Blindsight Author Chris Colin
In Blindsight, Chris Colin has written the true story of b-movie-to-blockbuster producer Simon Lewis’s 16-year recovery from a car crash that left him with a pulse, but little else.
Jobs and Education
Technology and higher education have been enjoying a symbiotic relationship in recent years. Apple’s creative visions have been coming to life and flourishing on academic platforms, but now that Steve…