A History of Coffee Cup Lids
Nicola Twilley, writing at The Atlantic, provides a brief design history of the plastic lid that aggravates so many of us when we’re trying to ingest our precious, precious caffeinated…
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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.
Science Saturday
There’s a Tricorder X-Prize now. I just had a nerdgasm. I don’t know whether this says more about human engineers or slime molds, but either way, it’s interesting. How rare…
Saturday Morning Links
So after 11 years of unmarried bliss, Amy and I are getting married. A high school sophomore challenges Congressperson Michelle Bachmann to a debate and facts-test on the Constitution. I’d…
Wikileaks Hypocrisy?
Mediaite linked yesterday to a piece in the New Statesman which reported that Wikileaks has been pressuring members of their staff to sign what they describe as a “draconian” confidentiality…
Self Lit: The Reading
Think of it, perhaps, as a mini-Rumpus, south Florida style, tonight at 8:00 p.m at The Projects in FAT Village. This is the literary component of the Self Lit Art…
The Avatars of Vishnu
Via Rumpus Contributor Michael Hollander, here’s some great art and an even better story from Nina Paley about some work she did for the Brooklyn Museum. It might seem dry–she…
Science Saturday
So, global warming isn’t happening? Tell that to the people who will starve because crop yields are down due to hotter temperatures. Computer scientists at the University of Texas-Austin have…
Saturday Morning Links
My eyes are taking some time to focus this morning, so I’m occasionally lifting my glasses and putting my nose on my laptop screen. No idea why you would need…
Modern Medicine is Freaking Amazing
The Rumpus Poetry Book Club has been discussing Dean Young’s Fall Higher this month, and given that Young had a heart transplant on the 15th, I’d basically assumed we were…
“Pastor Witherspoon Goes to War”
I’ve been an ardent follower of the NY Times Disunion blog almost since it started. If you’re unfamiliar with it, the Times is reliving the Civil War in a sense,…
Science Saturday
An Appeals Court has lifted the injunction against the National Institute of Health’s revised policy on funding stem cell research. That’s the science part of the link. The language part…