#REALTALK RETURNS
Ann Friedman, former executive editor of GOOD magazine and current staffer at Tomorrow, has relocated her much beloved blog #realtalk from your editor to the Columbia Journalism Review. It’s there…
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“Future Pups From the Past” and Other Genetic Facsimiles
Cryogenically freezing your dogs DNA has its merits. South Korean cloning technologies can see the dead resurrected and reproducing. Case in point: Sir Lancelot, star of the series “I Cloned my…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today in awful news: I hope you’re ready for food to get crazy expensive. People say that 3D is horrible, but how many times has a NON 3D movie fixed…
BOB ROSS MOMENT OF THE DAY
PBS is teaming up with Symphony of Science to remix old PBS classics. Devoted fans of the television network will recognize the distinctive head of hair on the star of…
Top Secret Ted Wilson
Ted Wilson, our reviewer of all things in the world, has just reviewed something he thinks may be too controversial for public consumption. While he does not believe in censorship,…
“soft hues to violent stains”
“To what extent is color a physical thing in the physical world, and to what extent is it created in our minds?” Radiolab investigates the intangible chromatic universe in this…
She Smelled of New Book
In our digitalized age, where there is constant postulation on the death of print, it is reassuring to know that should the medium be lost, the scent of a new…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The bottom of the sea continues to be filled with the craziest things. Update from a recent post: we still have no idea what happened to Amelia Earhart. Mapping life…
Alden Van Buskirk
At The Poetry Foundation, Garrett Caples writes a moving essay on the life of Alden Van Buskirk, a Vermont born, Dartmouth-St. Louis-Mexico-Oakland raised poet with connections to the Beats and a…
Bumper Year for The Booker Prize
The Booker Prize 2012 long-list is out and it’s in with the new. “We were considering novels not novelists, texts not reputations,” says Peter Stothard. Shortlist to come September 11.
‘Who’s Up, Who’s Down, Who’s New’
Monocle Magazine‘s annual global quality of life survey is freshly released for public consumption. A city’s livability and lovability (amongst other things) are considered in this reflection on what makes a…
“Not since Sylvia Plath…
…has a poet indulged an orgy of self-speculation of these proportions.” At The Boston Review, B.K. Fischer takes a close look at Rumpus contributor Ariana Reines’ poetry of the erotic…