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Lindsay Meisel

Lindsay Meisel is the director of communications at Edupath, an educational technology company in Berkeley, California. She has picked spinach at sunrise on an organic farm, written about Nietzsche and environmentalism for the Breakthrough Institute, and saved things instead of selling them at Underground Advertising.
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    Beauty as character

    In an elegant and bracing piece for the New Yorker, recent Rumpus interviewee Adelle Waldman looks at the way men look at women. Beauty isn’t an ornament, either for the women who possess it or the best chroniclers of it. In…

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    Youth in Revolt meets 1984

    The San Francisco Public Library has chosen Cory Doctorow’s 2008 young adult novel “Little Brother” for its annual “One City One Book” award. After a terrorist attack on BART and the Bay Bridge, it’s 17 year-old Marcus against the Department…

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    Literary guts, literally

    Harris Sockel writes with a defiant sense of wonder. He leaves behind arguments and agendas to marvel indiscriminately at iPhones, intestines, and human tenderness. In his world, technology has a soul and people are all too material, oozing and wet…

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    Look Away

    Daikichi Amano is interested in icky, slimy, and gooey. His creepy–even disgusting–photographs depict supple young bodies marred by subterranean decay at the mouths of leeches and the tentacles of cephalopods (which, according to one interview, the crew eats after the…

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    Women, Water, Oil

    Alyssa Monks paints women through the distorted lens of water, and her newest round of work puts them in the steamy cage of the shower, where their breasts and bellies brush up against foggy glass doors and they become entangled…

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    Poems Out Loud

    For National Poetry Month, Poems Out Loud is featuring people reading their favorite poems aloud. The construction worker who describes his job as “a lot of digging” loves Walt Whitman, and not just because he writes about “common Americans” and…

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    Sex With Presidents

    The artist Justine Lai depicts herself having sex with each US president, painting them in order. She’s gotten as far as Ulysses S. Grant. (NSFW)

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    How Books Got Their Titles

    A blog about how famous books got their titles, peppered with amusing and surprisingly sexual anecdotes. John Cleland’s title Fanny Hill is dirty, but not for the reasons you might think. Marie Stopes’ 1918 Married Love might be the most…

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    New York Times Word Frequency Visualizations

    A Flickr set with visualizations of word frequency.  The word “crisis” has surpassed “hope” on only a handful of occasions — one of them is right now. Trends also show a general increase in the mention of superheros over time.…

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    The Evolution of Female Promiscuity

    “Darwin was a prude” for failing to consider the possibility of female promiscuity, an omission that delayed the study of sperm competition for 100 years. But don’t blame him — his sexually repressed daughter combed her daddy’s texts for references…