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Alternative Medicine
Xeni Jardin cautions against the use of alternative medicines at BoingBoing. “Green smoothies are great, but they alone cannot cure cancer. Oncology isn’t guaranteed to cure us, but quackery is guaranteed to kill us. What doctors like my rad-onc practice…
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The Love Songs for Lamps Roadshow
Brace yourselves: The Believer‘s totally rad rock show, The Love Songs for Lamps Roadshow, is coming to San Francisco this Sunday! In conjunction with its 2012 Music Issue—which you can buy here and read excerpts from here—The Believer has spent all of August touring…
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“Pier 70: In Its Own Words”
If you’re in San Francisco and at a loss for something to do tonight—or want to revise your plans and do something much cooler—head over to Dogpatch Wineworks for the opening of “Pier 70: In Its Own Words.” A collaboration…
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End of An Era
We’re all a bit sad to be losing Adobe Bookshop here in San Francisco. Due to high rent, the 24-year-old haven for bibliophiles will be shutting its doors at the end of the month. Today, The Bold Italic pays tribute…
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Everything is Fiction
“When you tell yourself the story of your life, the story of your day, you edit and rewrite and weave a narrative out of a collection of random experiences and events. Your conversations are fiction. Your friends and loved ones—they…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The three parent babies are coming! Maybe sending someone a scented postcard of your food is a thing you’d like to do. Maybe you’ve wondered what it would be like if all the Kepler exoplanet candidates orbited a single star.…
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Drawing On the Truth
“It’s a tricky business, legitimacy. Often, as we dole it out, our decisions are informed by invisible forces that are anything but objective. Who sets the standards? What happens when we label someone else’s story as invalid? And how could…
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What We’re Missing
If you’ve ever wondered about a particular brand of wit in France or what it means to be perpetually unlucky in Yiddish, Mental Floss has a list of eleven wonderful idioms with no direct English translations. Read them here.
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Fiction Blurred in Oakland
The LA Times reports that a Bay Area bookstore will be transformed into a pop-up record shop this coming September, in connection with the release of East Bay author Michael Chabon’s forthcoming novel Telegraph Avenue. Diesel Bookstore is an independent…
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Not So Progressive
If you’ve never had to deal with the inadequacies of an insurance company, consider yourself lucky. Gawker reports on a terrible instance of auto insurance failure, in which Progressive not only refused to honor a car accident victim’s policy, but sent…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This week’s nominee for most bad-ass dude is Wave Vidmar. Maybe you need some Japanese dream imagery illustration? Marsquakes! The world is still full of new things, some of them are amphibians. Let’s all look at some Chinese ghost towns…