Expression So Vile
The First Amendment case that’s getting most of the attention this year involves Citizens United and political speech by corporations, in large part because most court watchers believe that 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
Can a dead fish perceive humans and tell their emotional states? No, but the reason for the story is an interesting one. This is the world’s most awesome science fair…
Saturday Morning Links
Morning, everyone. Let’s get our geek on. Get out your checkbook, members of the nerdcore. You can buy Gene Roddenberry’s Mac 128 computer, given to him by Apple. Erik Loomis…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
It’s Saturday night, the skies are cloudy, and the satellite reception keeps cutting in and out. Guess it’s time for some poetry links. I don’t generally link to poetry reviews…
Error Correction or Information Control?
Great piece by Anthony Gottlieb over at The Economist on one potentially big upside for e-readers over books–the ability to correct errors in real time, without the expense of pushing…
How Do We Think Other’s Thoughts?
Rebecca Saxe at TED, on sensing other’s thoughts, and on changing moral judgments using magnetic pulses.
Science Saturday
We begin with death today, specifically the smell of it. Apparently, insects all emit the same blend of fatty acids when they die, and that smell sends them scurrying. High…
Flyover State
Brendan Ross is insane, or at least, I’m betting he will be at the end of this month. He had a month or so to kill, so he got Wired…
Saturday Morning Links
Morning everyone. Here are some truffles I rooted up for you. Well, truffle-shaped at the very least. Rep. Joe “You lie!” Wilson has hired a professional tweeter. I may have…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
When I came across this first link, my immediate reaction was “we need an anthology of the sonnet?” Apparently we do. I’ll be checking this one out. Rebecca Wolff can…
A Suggestion to all Marketers
I understand the difficulties that marketers face. They have to make a splash in an over-saturated media market, and it’s difficult to divert peoples’ attention away from not just their…
A Brief History of Economics
Two weeks in a row now I’m doing a blog post on the upcoming feature story in the NY Times Magazine. This won’t become a habit–they get plenty of attention…