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Everything that can’t be categorized but is still wonderful!
Sorry to be a downer, but…
I want to be real clear about something at the beginning of this post. I’m opposed to the death penalty in any and all cases. Name history’s greatest criminals and…
Science Saturday
Great photos from the NASA probe Dawn of the asteroid Vesta. Kepler spotted a planet orbiting two suns. UK researchers are attempting to recreate the effects of volcanic eruptions on…
Saturday Morning Links
Two months ago, the day I pulled into Des Moines, the temperature was over a hundred degrees. Yesterday there was a low of 37. This is going to take some…
Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Questions, questions, questions. Is it that much of a surprise that major social networks are stealing other peoples’ ideas? So when will we be able to control computers with our…
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Spend the Day at The Grotto School
For adults only! There are still tickets available! 3 Hands-on Writing Workshops – 1 Publishing Panel with Industry Experts 1 Forty-Five-Minute One-on-One Session with a Published Author 1 Yoga for Writers…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dinosaurs and birds together at last (in the distant distant past). On Edward Gorey’s illustrated letters. Some new time wasters for your weekend: biomedical ephemera and ancient maps! Perhaps you…
Now We’re Talking
It’s not always oil that we spill into the ecosystem. Every now and then a pet cockatoo is let loose or escapes, joins a wild flock, and teaches the natives…
Books Set Free
The Guardian will unleash 15,000 books on the Brits in a Book Swap kicking off their six-week autumn books season. Readers and writers can also give away their favorites with…
Touré Interview
“Post-racial suggests a world where race does not exist and racism does not exist, and it’s a completely ridiculous term…With post-Blackness, what I’m talking about is a conception of Blackness…
Winning Captions
If you keep getting rejected by the New Yorker’s cartoon caption contest week after week, your frustration has company. The article offers some strategies for writing a winning submission. Findings…