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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 cholesterol may reduce sexual arousal in women. Geckos can self-amputate…
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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 to buy him a JetBlue unlimited travel pass, and has…
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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.
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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 found my new calling in life. If you’re not already…
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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 reward for getting through a day of writing about free…
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Check Out The Updated Funny Women Submission Guidelines
Here. You’ll notice a few more helpful directives and corrected spellings.
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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 hopes to democratize the bookselling industry. But after gaining popularity…
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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 of Information, is looking past the settlement and examining what…
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Failed Algorithm: Beautiful Women Aren’t Funny
Tom Sales recently wrote an article for the Washington Post about the female cast members of Saturday Night Live. He says things like:
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The Rumpus Review of We Live in Public
Sizing up history is a tricky business: You can generally recognize that something is significant long before you can really say why or how. So it is with the Internet and its many pioneers. So it is with Josh Harris.