A New Frontier in Copyright Infringement
According to Discover magazine, last year, Craig Venter and his colleagues inscribed a passage from James Joyce into the genome of a synthetic microbe. Apparently, after the microbe hit, the…
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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
Very faint traces of radiation from Japan have been detected in Sacramento. If you’re still not sure just how a nuclear reactor works or exactly what’s going on in Japan,…
Saturday Morning Links
Tonight, Supermoon! I would like to note for the record that I am excited for this because of how cool it will look, and not for any astrological reasons. About…
Nuclear Power Roundup
I started this as a Japan roundup, but most of the articles are about nuclear power on the whole. The situation in Japan is bad, as you’ll see from the…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
As I mentioned at the end of the Poetry Book Club chat with Noelle Kocot (the edited version will run Tuesday, I believe), I have started a Rumpus Poetry Facebook…
Kickstart This
Tony Comstock, an award-winning filmmaker, has a new project. I’ll let him tell you what it’s all about. “The Boi Meets Girl Meets the MPAA project will submit BRETT AND…
Science Saturday
Most of the links this week will deal with the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The biggest issue I have personally with nuclear power is that while things don’t often…
Dear New York Times: Knock it off
Sorry if I seem a little obsessive about James O’Keefe, but this kind of crap really bothers me. The NY Times published a piece yesterday titled “Partisans Adopt Deceit as…
Saturday Morning Links
Remember that uncontroversial controversy over NPR that resulted in a couple of resignations? Turns out–and this should be absolutely no surprise–that James O’Keefe selectively edited the video to make Schiller’s…
A Better Response
The New York Times public editor critiques the paper’s coverage of the gang rape story. Click here to read more on the Times‘ “response” to the justified public outrage around…
A Japan Earthquake/Tsunami Update
I’m not going to try to bring you breaking news on this story–the situation is too fluid, and you don’t come to The Rumpus for that sort of story anyway,…
The Latest from Wisconsin
If you scan the front pages of major news websites this morning, you might not know that anything happened in Wisconsin last night. The MSNBC website has a small piece…