Where Celebrities Go to Die
Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler takes a crack at the underworld in a hit-and-miss new novel.
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How Do We Think Other’s Thoughts?
Rebecca Saxe at TED, on sensing other’s thoughts, and on changing moral judgments using magnetic pulses.
Science Saturday
We begin with death today, specifically the smell of it. Apparently, insects all emit the same blend of fatty acids when they die, and that smell sends them scurrying. High…
Flyover State
Brendan Ross is insane, or at least, I’m betting he will be at the end of this month. He had a month or so to kill, so he got Wired…
The Adderall Diaries
The Adderall Diaries by Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott got a rave review in the Sunday San Francisco Chronicle. More on the official Adderall Diaries Page.
Saturday Morning Links
Morning everyone. Here are some truffles I rooted up for you. Well, truffle-shaped at the very least. Rep. Joe “You lie!” Wilson has hired a professional tweeter. I may have…
The Eyeball #28: Movie Binge
My family was recently out of town for a five days, leaving me home alone with over 800 pages (no exaggeration) of student work to read and comment upon. My…
Check Out The Updated Funny Women Submission Guidelines
Here. You’ll notice a few more helpful directives and corrected spellings.
The Scribd Sower
Scott James, who writes under the pen name Kemble Scott, has a new book out: The Sower. Scott originally self-published The Sower on Scribd, an online “social publishing” site that…
Google’s Book Search: Not Good for Academia?
We’ve covered the Google book settlement quite a lot recently. While we tend to focus on how the case affects authors, Geoffrey Nunberg, a professor at the UC Berkeley School…