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New School
Wired’s got an article on technologically-informed education—Khan Academy, an educational website in which, “Students, or anyone interested enough to surf by, can watch some 2,400 videos in which the site’s founder, Salman Khan, chattily discusses principles of math, science, and…
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Dyer’s “Reading Life”
If you haven’t heard by now, we are at the precipice of Geoff Dyer’s latest venture in the New York Times, a weekly column for the Book Review called, “Reading Life.” Thus we will all be in touch with his…
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Writing Frenzies and their Social Effects
Maud Newton has some relatable writing pains that she’s been ruminating on. It can take forced isolation and sometimes jail time to produce tangible, significant results. This is the kind of isolation that can make the public realm difficult and…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Scientists are probably just hoarding all the time travel for themselves. Visualizing a life. There is totally (probably) water on Mars, hella (probable) water. Warning: human jell-o is coming. The one bright spot of the space shuttle program ending is…
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“Would I Had Phrases That Are Not Known”
Disillusioned by the task of writing truly original? John Barths writes on the difficult task to write something new and distinctly untold, which is apparently one that is perpetually and historically daunting. “Originality, after all, includes not only saying something…
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Oslo in Mourning
Thousands of people in Oslo, Norway are mourning the loss of the 76 victims of anti-immigration extremist, Anders Behring Breivik’s shocking attacks last week. His plans were carefully delineated in a 1,500 page manifesto called, “2083: A European Declaration of…
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The Last Poet I Loved: Hafez
Hafez (sometimes spelled Hafiz) was an Iranian poet of the 14th century CE. His poems are still recited throughout the Middle East, and in Iran October 11 is Hafez Day. Off the top of my head, I can’t even name…
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Notable New York, This Week 7/25-7/31
This week in New York Smith Magazine Six-Word Memoirs and more, Poets House Showcase Reading, BOMB Magazine issue 116 party at powerHouse Arena, The Soundtrack Series at Le Poisson Rouge, Animation Block Party, and the New York Poetry Festival on…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Evidently this is the saddest movie ever made (scientifically). Once again, the Onion has called me out. Weird French Nouveau islands. Pneumatic tubes are pretty neat. Holy cow whale sharks!
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Bombay v. New York: A Very Short Q&A with Photographer Nisha Sondhe
Sometimes I walk through my city and think, “there’s no place like home.” I’m a native New Yorker and there are still things about the city that amaze me, such as seeing the Manhattan skyline from the pedestrian lane of…
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Writers Should Go To Prison
“Today, however, being chained to the desk, as the expression goes, is no longer a guarantee of productivity. Who can stick with the blank page when the click of a mouse opens up a cocktail party of chattering friends, a…
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More Google, More Problems
“A striking number of Google+ accounts have been deleted in the last 24 hours as the new social network struggles with its community standards policy around real names…” Over at ZDNet, Violet Blue has a roundup of what looks to…