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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Y’all see this photo-essay on modern day Bowery tenements? Welcome to the world hermaphroditic butterfly! Brief histories of monsters and title design. Hella space pictures.
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SPE, Revisited
“Forty years later, the Stanford Prison Experiment remains among the most notable—and notorious—research projects ever carried out at the University. For six days, half the study’s participants endured cruel and dehumanizing abuse at the hands of their peers. At various…
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Milk Just Got Offensive
Uh oh—here is the latest reason to be offended by normative gender divisions. The California Milk Processor Board has a new advertising campaign that focuses on the milk’s ability to alleviate PMS symptoms because of its vitamin D and calcium…
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Look At How Much Fun We’re Having!
“Take Me Home,” the midsummer monthly Rumpus event, happened last night. Just to recap, it was a phantasmagoria of poetry, comedy, music and a lot of emotion. Thanks to all who made it out! Here is some photo documentation as…
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Who is Ana Mendieta?
Today, in Book Review, John Reed reviews Who is Ana Mendieta? a new graphic novel about the life and tragic death of the feminist artist. Read the review.
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FUNNY WOMEN #59: Looking for Best Friends, m4ww
Craigslist is unfiltered potential. It’s criteria gone crazy. In a single day, you can get ripped off, score free kittens,
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Birthdays, Exiles
Perhaps you have thought about what you would take and where you would go if forced to flee the country because of your communist beliefs? In honor of Pablo Neruda’s birthday, Daybook describes the poet’s flight from Chile to Argentina.…
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Religion vs. Pop Culture
“There was a time, religious historians say, that religion was easy to pinpoint because people were defined by their beliefs, practices and traditions of worship. Now, with the sheer number of people and faiths intermingling, believers are consumers of religion.”…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I’m sure we’d all like to go back to the days when turtles ruled the world. Ghost Fleet hurray! Wanna look at some mid-century baggage labels? (Yes you do.) Let us now discuss the role of badminton in art. (via…
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Internet Theories
The development of the internet has complex cultural roots that divide over the different companies that were participating in its invention. The Apple/Microsoft “personalised, decentralised and playful computing” worked against “IBM’s idea of computing was of an expensive, centralised and…
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Hey, We Do This Too
We’re not the only ones out there curious to know where and writers write and why. This week the Chicago Tribune spoke to bestselling and award winning authors to get the lowdown on the digs most conducive to consistent, contended…
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TONIGHT! “Take Me Home”
Don’t miss out on tonight’s monthly Rumpus event!! “Take Me Home.” Tonight’s event features spoken word performer Rich Ferguson and brilliant authors Meg Day, Alexandra Teague, and Jesse Ball. We’ll supply the humor fix with the comedy stylings of Janine…