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Brian Spears
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Saturday Morning Links
The weather app on my phone has stopped giving me the temperature and has started simply laughing at me. That is, when it’s not giving me the temperature in Kelvin as a way of cheering me up. Rumpus superstar Roxane…
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The Rumpus Interview with Barbara Jane Reyes
It’s hard for me to know how much to push against popular culture, because certain trends are fleeting.
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Science Saturday
Can’t help myself–I’m a sucker for high speed video of birds in flight. There are few things I find more elegant. Russia’s Mars probe, Phobos-Grunt (not making that name up), is probably going to crash to earth on Sunday. Most…
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Saturday Morning Links
So winter finally showed up in Des Moines this week. It’s been a nice run, what with temperatures in the 50s, but yesterday it barely got above 20, and I’ve been looking for a tauntaun to slaughter and climb inside…
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Science Saturday
Independent journalists are taking to the skies, attempting to use drones to capture footage and livestream it. Even though I’m a huge fan of tech, I’m not sure I feel this is an improvement or even a welcome development. Scientists…
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Saturday Morning Links
I survived my first Iowa election season mostly intact. The secret? No television that wasn’t streamed. I think I saw one political commercial out of the corner of my eye on a screen in a restaurant, and I kept my…
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Science Saturday
If you weren’t already afraid of scorpions, then you probably don’t want to hear that their exoskeleton sort of acts like one big eye. Popular Science takes us on a tour inside Space Shuttle Atlantis. Twenty-five bucks will soon get…
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Saturday Morning Links
Welcome to the end of the year. This time last year, I was living in Fort Lauderdale, which was going through the coldest December on record, according to NOAA. This year I’m in Des Moines, going through a much milder…
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Science Saturday
So glad that Wired Science didn’t title this piece “A Star is Born” because that would have been really cheesy. X-Men bacteria Comet Lovejoy is pretty badass. The National Institutes of Health will not finance new research on chimpanzees.
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Saturday Morning Links
Tonight, I will be geeking out hard. There will likely be evidence of this on my various other interweb presences. Klingons are involved. Gene Marks, writing for Forbes, informed the world of how clueless he is about the lives of…
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More Year-End Love
Rumpus contributor Roxane Gay’s book Ayiti was listed by the The National Book Critics Circle blog as one of their Small Press Highlights of 2011. Of Ayiti they write “The title is the Haitian Creole name for Haiti and in…
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Love you too, Harriet!
Harriet, aka the Poetry Foundation blog, has posted an excerpt of the Rumpus Poetry Book Club’s recent chat with T. R. Hummer. Watch as I learn what the Bald Man Fallacy is and more. Fortunately, they didn’t quote my alternate…