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Science Saturday
Can’t help myself–I’m a sucker for high speed video of birds in flight. There are few things I find more elegant. Russia’s Mars probe, Phobos-Grunt (not making that name up),…
Saturday Morning Links
So winter finally showed up in Des Moines this week. It’s been a nice run, what with temperatures in the 50s, but yesterday it barely got above 20, and I’ve…
Defense For Our Inner Child
“I want to defend the children that we still are inside, the fragile sensitive souls who no matter how much we tried were still told we were not good enough.…
Sugar’s Coming Out Party
Sugar’s Coming Out Party at The Verdi Club in San Francisco! Tuesday, February 14th (Valentine’s Day) at The Verdi Club (2424 Mariposa Street), 7pm. Come out to meet Sugar live…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Very important dinosaur hands news. Data visualizations as self portrait. Behold the classroom-less school (way to go Sweden). Can we all agree that Japanese monsters are the most terrifying? Hello…
That GOOD Lovin’
“Want something more in your mailbox than catalogs and bills? Longing for correspondence more inspiring than an endless stream of text messages and Facebook status updates?” GOOD gave Letters in…
Language Map
If you’re looking for an interactive map to play with today, here’s a cool one. It breaks down where various languages are spoken around the country by the percentage of…
Judging Teachers
This new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research has been getting major press attention. At The Awl, Maria Bustillos questions the merit of the study and its efforts…
Prompts in Your Box
Online writing community Figment has recently inaugurated Figment Daily Themes, “a free daily email service through which subscribers receive a thoughtful, compelling writing prompt five days a week.” Occasionally, prompts…
“Nothing Good Gets Away”
In 1858, John Steinbeck’s eldest son wrote his father a letter in which he expressed his belief that he had fallen in love. Steinbeck wrote him back with advice. “First—if…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
What the world really needs is video games for pigs. If I’ve learned anything doing this column, it’s that Berlin has the best hotels. “Don’t be HER pin-up boy.” Similarly:…