Science Saturday
I’ve long thought that smartphones were the early models of the Star Trek tricorder. Well, the iPhone is going to space and will measure, among other things, spacecraft radiation levels.…
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Brian Spears
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Brian Spears is Senior Poetry Editor of The Rumpus and the author of A Witness in Exile (Louisiana Literature Press, 2011). His poem “Upon Reading That Andromeda Will One Day Devour Triangulum and Come For Us Next” was featured in Season 9 of Motion Poems.
Saturday Morning Links
Thanks very much to Seth Fischer for sitting in for me last Saturday. We had a fabulous day. We Who Are About To Die is running a series on negative…
Adam Mansbach on Gil Scott-Heron
I’ve been seeing tributes to GSH since the news broke last night, but this one stood out to me for some reason. Here’s a taste. “The fact that drugs took…
Science Saturday
This has always seemed like “no crap” idea to me, but still…if you’re writing about heath studies, you should probably find out who’s funding those studies in the process. An…
Saturday Morning Links
I’m taking next weekend off to get married. Seth Fischer, who rides herd on this joint some Sundays, is going to fill in for me, for which I am eternally…
First Ever?
According to the Global Kilimanjaro Bowl website, the first ever organized game of American Football has been played on the African continent, between a Mexican team, the CONADEIP All Stars,…
What Happens Post-Rapture?
Vaughan Bell at Slate runs down some history on what happens to doomsday cults and the like when their prophecies about the end of the world don’t come true. It’s…
Science Saturday
GM is upping its production of Volts because of increased demand. Remember when bailing out GM was going to be a disaster? What will the end of the Space Shuttle…
Saturday Morning LInks
So Rapture Day is here. Is anyone missing? I’d make fun of these people, but I can’t top what they’ve done to themselves. Daniel Nester asks what unions have ever…
When a Marriage License Just Isn’t Enough
Want to get entangled quantum-ly? Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats has developed a way for the two of you to join at the subatomic level. “Keats has designed an entangling apparatus,…