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‘The The Angels Angels’ & Other Astrophysicist Baseball Observations

Neil deGrasse Tyson (Astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural History. Author: Space Chronicle, The Pluto Files. Host: StarTalk Radio) on Baseball: > Tonight’s @AllStarGame compells me to Tweet what Baseball looks like through the…

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Doctor Fraud

Back in a 2009, Zak Smith called out an unnamed celebrity doctor in his Rumpus essay on Sasha Grey. The physician in question, Drew Pinsky, is now under scrutiny “after…

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SF vs. The Other Big Apple

Last week Apple computers pulled out of the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT). Apple, increasingly under pressure from environmental campaigners in recent times, may be on the outs with…

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Joke or Invitation?

In a thought-provoking Daily Beast essay about Daniel Tosh’s “rape joke” at the Laugh Factory, Rumpus Funny Women editor Elissa Bassist clarifies the distinction between using humor “to cope or…

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“Twitter For Authors”

The LA Times reports that Twitter has released a how-to-manual titled “Twitter for Authors.” The guide details six tips particularly geared towards writers, some of which include the not-so-helpful “Be…

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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

This makes so much more sense than homeless people: turning payphones into WiFi hubs! So, how did people get here? The Makedomium monument is the best. American things from the…

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A PEEK INSIDE ZADIE SMITH’S NEW NOVEL

The Millions has excerpted the first lines of Zadie Smith’s forthcoming novel NW. Set in northwest London, this book is Smith’s first novel since the publication of On Beauty in…

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Palahniuk at the Castro Theatre

On July 16, Chuck Palahniuk will be at the Castro Theatre in conversation with Rumpus contributor Tom Barbash. Last month, Palahniuk released Invisible Monsters Remix, a “director’s cut” hardcover of a…

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The DIY Sentry Gun Scene

Tech crunch hypothesizes that yes, contrary to what you may have believed previously, there is in fact money to be made in the DIY sentry gun scene. Rudolph Labs has…

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SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND: TEN YEARS OF PORCHLIGHT

Porchlight is celebrating its ten-year anniversary with a two-day festival featuring “storytelling superstars from the last DECADE of Porchlight.” Those superstars include a number of Rumpus contributors, such as Bucky…

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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

Yesterday was Tesla Day, Atlas Obscura was there for you as always. Let’s all watch the Statue of Liberty get unboxed! Evidently stem-cell tourism is a thing but probably won’t…

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