2011
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Erase to the Top
Another miraculous educational turnaround, another example of rampant cheating. I think we’ve seen enough of a pattern now of school districts doing a quick turnaround only for the numbers to be fishy that now when a politician starts claiming “miracle!”…
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Have you seen?
I don’t think I’m bragging too much when I say that we have one of the best comics sections on the interwebs, but I think it gets ignored sometimes because you have to scroll down to see it. But make…
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Grow Your Own
Earlier this year, I saw this episode of Nova where they discussed growing replacement organs for people who need transplants. Transplant surgery is always tricky both because finding donors is hard and because the body rejects transplanted organs. Recipients have…
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Science Saturday
The Stanford Alumni magazine revisits the Stanford Prison Experiment forty years later, and catches up with some of the participants. I wonder if anyone will refer to this bear as the mitochondrial Eve of polar bears? Somehow I doubt it.…
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Saturday Morning Links
This time next week, I’ll be living in Des Moines, Iowa. Anyone want to help me unload a truck? I had some minor food allergies as a kid, and I carried an inhaler back when that sort of shit got…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Army develops a suicide bomber radar. Bring on the radiation! Motorola cowers before hackers with their new Droid. Get touchy. Some hands on ideas for your spare time.
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Sharon Harrigan: The Last Book I Loved, The Ticking is the Bomb
The first thing I noticed about this book, before I even wrestled with its gruesome and tender topics, is the style. Flynn is a poet, which is clear from the first sentence.
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Why I Chose Lea Graham’s Hough & Helix & Where & Here & You, You, You for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Rumpus Poetry Book Club board member Sean Singer on why he chose Lea Graham’s Hough & Helix & Where & Here & You, You, You as the July selection for the club.
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July’s Rumpus Book Club Selection: It’s Not Too Late!
This month’s Rumpus Book Club selection will indeed satisfy your summer fiction cravings. It’s not too late to sign up to receive this month’s book! How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive is Christopher Boucher’s debut novel, published by Melville House…
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The Last Poem I Loved: “Rick” by Jericho Brown
Poets fall in love with poems all the time, so much so that the question “what poem did you love last” isn’t really a question, but an invitation to wax poetic about the current darling in your eye. Because the…