Politics
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Robot Reporters and Automated Anchors
Hey, here’s something terrifying: To fill the void of the massive layoffs that have hit journalism, it appears that news outlets may be looking more and more to computers and even artificial intelligence to fill the void. Among the things…
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This Book Will End Your Life: The Greatest Modern Persian Novel Ever Written
Among the many places I was forbidden to go as a youth was through the pages of a book that didn’t even exist in our bookshelves.
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“Now for a cheer they are here, triumphant!”
“The board of elections in Washington D.C. has a new website designed to let soldiers and others vote from overseas. As a test, the board challenged outsiders to try to find faults with the system.” Can you guess what happened?…
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TBI And The Wars
“Since 2000, traumatic brain injury, or TBI, has been diagnosed in about 180,000 service members, the Pentagon says. But some advocates for patients say hundreds, if not thousands, more have suffered undiagnosed brain injuries. A Rand study in 2008 estimated…
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Man Oh Man, I’m MAD!
Man oh man, I’m mad. I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore. Take what? I don’t know. And that makes me mad too. Angry. Riled up. Cranky. Irate. Livid. Bellicose. Splenetic. Which has something to…
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The Scarlet “SW” for Sex Worker
I first heard about the U of New Mexico controversy via Facebook, when Joy Harjo left a status update reporting that she’d had to quit her job because the university was preventing her from protecting her students from sexual harassment.…
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Aliens Have Souls
“He admits to being a science fiction fan, which got him into astronomy, and says he would be willing to baptise an alien, but “only if they asked.”” Brother Guy Consolmagno, the Pope’s astronomer, has officially announced that aliens, if…
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What’s in a Name? JCPenney and The Dunce Cap
A few weeks ago, a slim catalog from JCPenney arrived in our mailbox. It floated around the house for a few days. On its cover are printed these words: littleredbook fall trends 2010 I hadn’t noticed this until just the…
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Elissa Bassist Recounts The Rumpus
In “VIDA Counts The Rumpus” two female writers from VIDA: Women in Literary Arts “crunch the numbers and let us know how The Rumpus is doing in the gender disparity department.” The verdict: we’re kinda sexist, but not as sexist as…
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Rumpus Women Respond to VIDA
Earlier today Susan Steinberg and Cate Marvin from VIDA: Women in Literary Arts crunched some numbers and let Rumpus readers know how the site is doing in the gender disparity department. Moments ago Rumpus Women’s Literature and Humor Editor Elissa…
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Rushdie for Religious Freedom
Salman Rushdie has come out in support of the (unnecessarily) controversial Islamic cultural center that will hopefully be built two blocks from Ground Zero. (via TheBookBench)
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The Man Behind @BPGlobalPR
Meet Josh Simpson, the man behind the hilarious Twitter feed @BPGlobalPR.