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Brian Spears
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Why I Chose D. A. Powell’s Useless Landscape or A Guide for Boys for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club
Rumpus Poetry Editor Brian Spears on why he selected D. A. Powell’s Useless Landscape or A Guide for Boys for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club in February.
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Science Saturday
I for one welcome our origami robot overlords. So this story has a bat fly trapped in amber that’s 20 million years old. Who makes this into a movie? Is cadmium the new lead? NASA has awesome space pictures, which…
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Saturday Morning Links
Last night the low was 1. Not Celsius either. In Celsius it was like negative fuck-you. Earlier in the day I looked out the door and saw bright sunny skies. Then I walked outside and discovered just how cold it…
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Prop 8 Declared Unconstitutional
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that California’s Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage after the California Supreme Court had previously found that same-sex couples had the right to marry. You can find a link to the actual…
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Science Saturday
It’s taken 20 years, but Russian scientists are about to breach Lake Vostok, which has been covered by the Antarctic ice cap for 14 million years. Hey you folks–if you need volunteers to test these virtual reality contact lenses, right…
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The Rumpus Poetry Book Club Announces…
A lot, really. First of all, we’re about to chat with Aase Berg and Johannes Gorannson about Berg’s book Transfer Fat It’s the first time we’ve done a translation, and we’re very excited to be able to talk with both…
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Saturday Morning Links
I usually try to start things out on the light side on Saturday mornings. I mean, I haven’t watched Saturday morning cartoons in twenty years now I guess (do they even still exist?) and I’ve traded in sugary cereal for…
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The Susan G. Komen Foundation v. Planned Parenthood
Update: The Susan G. Komen Foundation has reversed its decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood. I doubt the board of the Susan G. Komen Foundation had any idea what sort of blowback they were going to get when Planned Parenthood…
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Missing the Point on Content Piracy
The SOPA/PIPA debates have reopened the discussion over the issue of online piracy, over whether or not it’s stealing, over the amount of economic damage it does to content producers, and whether or not the response will destroy the internet…
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Science Saturday
Some interesting symmetries between social networks today and in the Pleistocene. Rebecca Boyle deals with the question of whether some research is so dangerous that it shouldn’t be pursued. Crazy solar flares have been causing amazing light shows in the…
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Saturday Morning Links
Getting a late start today, but I still have some interesting reading for you to do. Tell me if you’ve heard this story before: legislator puts forth a bill which targets a mostly powerless group of people, then withdraws it…
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Science Saturday
I’ve applauded Anonymous in the past, but this is not cool. The second you start drafting people into your cause without their knowledge, you become the thing you rail against. Hello again grizzled langurs. Glad you’re not all dead after…