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Brian Spears
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Science Saturday
Remember way back last week when I told you about seeing a supernova from your back yard? Yeah, well, astronomers want your help in studying it. I’m always fascinated by stories like this because my Zoology professor in college was…
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Saturday Morning Links
I’ve got coffee in my Dalek mug and Gladys the Mucus Machine riding shotgun. What could go wrong? Given Steve Almond’s lamentation on what we lost that we published yesterday, I think it’s also worthwhile to look at what the…
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Goodbye, Michael Hart
Michael Hart should have been more famous than he was. I don’t know if it’s accurate to say that he invented the e-book, but he had tons to do with developing it. He started Project Gutenberg, which is one of…
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Some More on BlazeVOX
Reb Livingston, the publisher of No Tell Books, has written a post about the economics of her own press in the light of the BlazeVOX controversy. What kinds of sales numbers are we talking about for poetry collections? “No Tell…
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The Death (and Resurrection) of BlazeVOX
It all started, as it so often seems to these days, with a blog post.
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What’s It Like at Your MFA Program?
John Gallaher is looking for responses in what he’s calling his “Market Research Friday.” Yes, it’s Saturday, but I suspect he’s leaving comments open for a while yet. Here’s what he’s mainly asking for: “1. Is there an reigning, asserted…
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Science Saturday
See a supernova from your back yard. This little piece in Wired on the discovery of the earliest known human tools in interesting not just for the discovery information, but for the way the writer breaks down how scientists pegged…
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Saturday Morning Links
So an hour after this goes up, I’ll be leading an informal wine-tasting. My new job has its perks. I’ll probably be the only one spitting, though. What would you do for a free hotel room? A reminder that we…
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Best Sex Writing 2012
The official Table of Contents won’t be released for a couple of weeks, but a little birdie whispered in our ears (okay, announced it on her Facebook page) that Roxane Gay’s piece “The Careless Language of Sexual Violence”, which we…
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What About the Prisoners?
Solitary Watch reports that the Riker’s Island prison isn’t going to be evacuated even though similar small islands and barrier beaches surrounding New York City are in Zone A. In fact, according to the NY Times’s City Blog, the city’s…
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Science Saturday
There was a new bird species discovered in the US for the first time in 40 years. The catch? It was discovered in a museum collection. Ornithologists are still trying to find a live one in the wild. Are you…
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Saturday Morning Links
To our friends on the east coast dealing with Hurricane Irene–be safe. I know from experience it’s unlikely that any of you are reading this, but even so. A storm like this one is nothing to mess with, even if…