August 2012
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The winner of this year’s New Scientist Eureka photography prize is everyone. Today’s bad ass of the week: astronaut/antarctic doctor Scott Parazynski. Oh hey look, it’s all the mars landings together. 19th century English eccentrics. The future continues to be…
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Flop!: Chaos, Tragedy and the (Un-American) Beauty of Soccer
To appreciate soccer one has to understand that there’s beauty in failure.
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“Neighbor Boy”
Rumpus contributor Conner Habib continues his Guys I Wanted To Fuck in High School series — which chronicles his frustrated coming of age in small-town Pennsylvania — with a new entry full of thresholds, rumors, and willpower. “This isn’t just about…
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Faces of Addiction Revisited
Back in March, we published a post on Chris Arnade’s “Faces of Addiction” project, which explores the stories of addicts living in New York City through a combination of photography and text. Earlier this month, Arnade wrote a piece on…
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An Interview With Austin Kleon
Rumpus contributor Andrew David King interviews Austin Kleon at The Kenyon Review’s blog. Kleon has a knack for altering a text to make it his own, and talks at length about creative originality: “I guess what I’m interested in is why ‘originality’ is a…
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Open Access to Research is not the same as Napster for Music
There may soon be an end to borrowing the JSTOR password of your friends in grad school with the rise of Open Access peer-reviewed work, thanks to the Budapest Open Access Initiative: “Imagine a group of authors who do not…
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A Loss for Words
My feelings when I catch a plagiarizer are almost always mixed, a dissonant symphony of anger, sadness, frustration, and, sometimes, relief
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #149
WONDER WOMAN’S INVISIBLE JET ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Wonder Woman’s invisible jet.
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Twitter Can Help You Steer Clear Of Potty Mouths
The Atlantic covers a recent study that uses twitter to analyze where the United State’s most profanity prone individuals reside: “The Ukrainian-based web development firm Vertaline, aiming to answer that question, scanned tweets posted from across 462 specific locations in the U.S. The team…
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A Rumpus Book Club Update
Rumpus Book Club members this month have been devouring Emma Straub’s Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures, and we’ll be chatting with Straub about her book this Wednesday night. Poetry Book Club members have been all over Mary Jo Bang’s new…
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Notable San Francisco: 8/27-9/2
This Week in San Francisco! Monday 8/27: UK-based performance duo Action Hero explores Americana with Stranger in a Strange Land, a piece inspired by the landscapes of this country seen through foreign eyes. Sliding scald, 8pm, CounterPulse. Tuesday 8/28: Inside…
