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Heart of Glass
Ali Shaw’s novel concerns a modern-day Midas, a cold and inhospitable island, and a young woman whose body is inexorably transforming.
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Science Saturday
Wired Science interviews Sean Carroll about the nature of time. Crocodiles may have been feasting for hominids for nearly 2 million years. Sushi in space. Probably not the freshest. See Saturn’s moons in 3-D. And lastly, stand up when you…
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Pets are Cargo, not Passengers
I’ll probably piss some people off with this post, but I feel I have to say something. A friend of mine found herself on a flight to Houston yesterday with both a dog and a cat in the cabin. Set…
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Saturday Morning Links
Morning everyone! Let’s see what the internet fairy left under my laptop today. Dan Ariely finds a new placebo. The sharks in Dubai are planning their escape…and revenge. Adrian Johns wonders if attempts to stop IP piracy will instead lead…
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“A Composite of Four Interviews”
“This interview with Kurt Vonnegut was originally a composite of four interviews done with the author over the past decade. The composite has gone through an extensive working over by the subject himself, who looks upon his own spoken words…
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Nightmare Trails Lead to Literacy
Nicholas Rombes, author of A Cultural Dictionary of Punk 1974-1982, whose ongoing project Nightmare Trails at Knifepoint we covered here, has decided to create a side project to help raise money for Proliteracy Detroit, a non-profit that is the largest…
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Servers vs. Chainsaws
“The carbon footprint of data center server farms — roughly equal to that of paper mills today — is set to double in the next five years. And those server farms are often powered by coal, which tends to be…
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The History of Facebook
Facebook is the largest, fastest growing social site on the web, and yet its concept started in a college dorm room, and was (in part) modeled after one. Charles Peterson’s essay for The New York Review of Books, “In the…
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New Yorkers in Poets & Writers
The March/April Poets & Writers has a couple of great pieces on some New Yorkers to make note of. An article on writer Sam Lipsyte, whose third novel, The Ask, is being published this month by FSG; and a conversation…