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“To My Old Master”
Here’s a letter written in 1865 by an ex-enslaved man, Jourdan Anderson, in response to his former master’s request that Jourdan return to work on his farm. “I served you…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dept. of the-future-is-totally-here-dudes: bullet proof skin! Wired wants to talk to you about (actual) bugs. Uncontacted peoples in the 21st century is one of the most mind blowing concepts I…
Everyday Strangeness
“Her stories are distorted mirrors of domesticity, not because they skew the world but because they provide a magnified lens through which we can see what’s always been present but…
W. Kamau Bell on Laughing, Thinking
KGO News’ Finch Files features comedian W. Kamau Bell, who discusses his use of humor to get people thinking about–and discussing–racism. Also, if you are in San Francisco, take note:…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Science has determined aliens are probably being reclusive dicks. Oh hello, albino hummingbird. It is well documented that world’s fairs are awesome. Here is a look at one of the…
Sunday Shifts
“I’ve had a night self, a secret self, for as long as I can remember.” In case you weren’t around these parts yesterday, don’t miss Elissa Wald’s powerful essay “Night…
Notable San Francisco: 1/30-2/5
This week in San Francisco Monday 1/30: The Public Library’s Sunset Branch holds a discussion with local historian Lorri Ungaretti on the neighborhood’s not-so-distant past as San Francisco’s wild lands.…
Notable New York, This Week 1/30-2/05
This week in New York, poet Phil Kaye at Louder Arts, Corset Busters reading, Dave Isay at Greenlight, poet Billy Collins at Strand Books, Nerd Nite speed-dating, James Shapiro on…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let us welcome the week with reflections on crab design. Here’s your weeks worth of solar storm sky porn. What do false memories look like? Bad news navigation fans: the…
Science Saturday
Some interesting symmetries between social networks today and in the Pleistocene. Rebecca Boyle deals with the question of whether some research is so dangerous that it shouldn’t be pursued. Crazy…
Saturday Morning Links
Getting a late start today, but I still have some interesting reading for you to do. Tell me if you’ve heard this story before: legislator puts forth a bill which…