Too Many Quests, Too Many Grails
Really funny piece in Neatorama about the overuse of the holy grail metaphor in science writing. It’s gotten so bad that the term has been banned from the Chemical and…
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Science Saturday
Cockroach brains may contain the next great anti-microbial compound. Who knew? Great images of Saturn and 4 of its moons from the Cassini space probe. Great interview dealing with the…
Saturday Morning Links
Insert not-quite-as-witty-as-I-thought-when-I-first-wrote-it remark here. Is the long novel back? Terry Eagleton versus The Holy See. The Vatican never had a chance in this one. When I heard about the idea…
September’s Rumpus: “Where’s Steve?”
The next Monthly Rumpus is this Monday(!) and we’ve got a great show! Check out the lineup and buy your tickets early:
The Rumpus Summer Shakedown in NYC
This Monday, Sept. 13, 7-10pm at DEATH BY AUDIO, 49 S. 2nd St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn The Rumpus Presents: Co-sponsored by Take the Handle: Come help us say farewell to summer with comedians MICHAEL SHOWALTER…
Weekly Book Club Round-Up
Make sure to check out the Rumpus Poetry Book Club’s online discussion with Shane Book, this month’s featured poetry author who brings us Ceiling of Sticks. You can read the…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today is Friday, so let us now look at Parisian street art photography. The cutest stationary set the world has ever known? Have I linked to these toilet paper roll…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Its been a whale since we’ve linked to vintage matchbox designs. 1970s Italian designers are so much more suave than you could possibly imagine. Eraserhead: the comic! What we are…
Notable New York, This Week 9/8 – 9/12
This week Stephen Elliott is in town for the paperback release of The Adderall Diaries, Jonathan Franzen celebrates Freedom, Tao Lin brings Dakota Fanning and Haley Joel Osment to BookCourt,…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Please watch out for asteroids today guys. These people are in jail for a way cooler reason than you. I’m super rich, I don’t have to wind all these watches…
David Peak: The Last Book (of Poetry) I Loved, Horror Vacui
This is the one I return to, sometimes several times a year. The term “Horror Vacui” has two definitions, both of which serve as a useful framework while skirting the…