Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I don’t care what you say, I want to watch Disneyland get constructed. Mind-blowing fact of the day: most fish evolved on land. Industrial design of the future (1944). An…
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Free Sugar Party Tickets!
Are you hoping to attend Sugar’s coming out party but lacking the funds right now? Here’s your chance to receive a free ticket: After three women offered to sponsor someone’s…
What We Need to Know
Since writing “The Careless Language of Sexual Violence,” I have started paying more attention to how the media reports on sexual abuse and rape cases, the ways the media frames…
Prop 8 Declared Unconstitutional
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that California’s Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage after the California Supreme Court had previously found that same-sex couples had the right…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let us now listen to the sound of the Jurassic bush-cricket. There is some crazy psychedelic stuff going on in the ocean. Thank you PopSci for this slideshow of mythical…
“Living in the Shaky Place”
Jessica Valenti writes a powerful piece about her experience with PTSD after undergoing a severe illness during pregnancy and prematurely giving birth to her daughter. “I know now that the…
The Comics Journal
Exciting news: Our Rumpus Comics section is linking up with The Comics Journal, “a magazine that covers the comics medium from an arts-first perspective, and one of the nation’s most…
Documenting Sagas
An online, audiovisual storytelling network: Cowbird. “Our short-term goal is to pioneer a new form of participatory journalism, grounded in the simple human stories behind major news events. Our long-term goal is…
Notable San Francisco: 2/6-2/12
This Week In San Francisco! Monday 2/6: KNUDSEN-ARKIN-COLEMAN TRIO play a free show at the Make Out Room. 8:30pm, Make Out Room. Bird and Beckett kicks off its 2012 poetry…
Notable New York, This Week 2/05-2/12
This week in New York, I Heart Bomb Magazine reading, Granta Issue 118 launch, Gregory Orr on poetry as survival, Bernice McFadden at The Center for Fiction, Just Working on…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I know it’s only Monday, but I’m pretty sure “tiny volcanic moon” is the phrase of the week. (Largely terrifying) tales of DIY science. You know what else are neat?…
Science Saturday
It’s taken 20 years, but Russian scientists are about to breach Lake Vostok, which has been covered by the Antarctic ice cap for 14 million years. Hey you folks–if you…