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…
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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…
Roxane Gay Joins Rumpus Editorial Board!
We’ve got some exciting news: big-time Rumpus contributor Roxane Gay will be joining our volunteer editorial board as Essays Editor! This also means that we’ll be seeing more pieces written…
The Week in Friendship
At Feministing, Maya gave big love to Emily’s Rapp’s “Transformation and Transcendence: The Power of Female Friendship,” and offered a reflection on the subject, expressing optimism that society may move…
Repaired Circuits
“If we can find birds on the pages of books, and gods within concrete, it does not seem fantastic to encounter our parents inside of their pots and patios.” At…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Welcome to the known universe 26 new planets (it’s been a big week for outer space). The New York Public Library is first in the field of 3D gif making.…
Candid Convo with Edmund White
Vice interviews author Edmund White. The conversation covers porn, the perfect man, “gay-lit,” and a lot more. “No one tries to figure out how someone ended up straight, though it…