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United Books of America
The Library of Congress has put together a provocative list of 88 Books That Shaped America. (Happy belated 4th!) The LOC is also ready for nominations on what to add and why. The list is officially unfinished and meant to…
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Sport v. Human Rights
Eurozine’s Mihir Bose lays out the development of modern athletics in connection with human rights, citing the political and ethical pressures involved in not-so-nice countries hosting major sports events. He writes that the International Olympic Committee, among other major governing…
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“Make Sure You Build the Bridge”
“In the end nothing matters but the work. You can’t control how it’s taken, and the act of telling a story always involves a gap. Sometimes confusion is the risk of ambiguity–I say that to students all the time.” The New…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Why aren’t we talking to dolphins yet? Take it easy dudes, San Diego set off all of their fireworks at once this year. 100+ years of San Fermin bull running posters. How about some innovative school design? Very old pot.
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“The stuff we write has to matter, and I’m always pushing to the core, the heart of that”
The 99 Percent interviews Cheryl Strayed in anticipation of her soon-to-be released collection of Dear Sugar columns, Tiny Beautiful Things. The author discusses Sugar’s origin story, writing as a means of self-discovery, and the particulars of composing for the Internet.…
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WAL-MART-TURNED-LIBRARY
The Los Angeles Times details a former Wal-Mart that has been converted into the “largest single-story library in the country.” The McAllen Public Library, located in a Texan town right on the border of Mexico, is reportedly larger than two…
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Aesop Rock Returns
“…For whatever reason, making shit always seemed way, way, way more important and interesting to me than just about anything else one could do. Eventually the creativity switched focus from visual arts to music, but the idea and drive is…
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Science Update: Higgs Boson
First things first–Don’t call it the God Particle, even if you are making a joke about about the particle going to church. Don’t understand the big deal? Don’t sweat it–you’re not alone. The Vancouver Sun has a photo gallery with…
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Chris Andrews on Translation
“Sometimes the people who lament that global English has become a ‘grey language’ forget that the greyness predominates in certain social contexts, like business communication, and they forget that while English has been running around the world displacing other languages,…
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THE F-WORD & THE NEW YORKER
Mary Norris writes about the gradual inclusion of profanity in The New Yorker in this short piece, exploring questions on how one properly quotes Earl Sweatshirt, and whether or not the term “star fucker” is hyphenated.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I trust you’re all up on your Higgs Boson news, but did you know scientists also captured an atom’s shadow? My take away from this article: cheetahs aren’t doing it enough. Cuttlefish are cray. Meanwhile, the search for Amelia Earhart…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Happy birthday America. I know some people (read: we) give you a lot of guff, but that’s just cause we love you so much. We’re going to be taking things easy today in your honor.