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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Have you heard? The Rumpus is a place for poetry. (My own thoughts on this subject here.) If you’re looking for a journal to subscribe to, Gulf Coast is a…
Happy Birthday Nikola Tesla
How are you planning to spend Nikola Tesla day? I first experienced Tesla, I’m almost ashamed to admit, in the fiction of Spider Robinson, but the fictionalized version intrigued me…
Science Saturday
“No evidence of scientific malpractice and no reason to doubt the credibility of the scientific claims being made by the East Anglia researchers.” For all the soccer/football fans out there:…
You, too, can be a terrorist without even trying
Joshua Holland, writing for AlterNet, discusses just how easy it is to run afoul of the US’s laws on providing material support to groups named as terrorist organizations: “The Supreme…
Saturday Morning Links
If you’re in south Florida and you need an honest mechanic, ask me. I’ve got the guy for you. Seriously. The Queen of England is being replaced by a squid.…
For Us, the Daydreamers. From Science.
It just keeps progressing. Now scientific study is getting to the useful stuff, like re-inventing use into useless everyday things like daydreaming. Creativity depends on wandering. We all know it,…
Morning Coffee
Why yes, I WOULD like to know about the Russian Liberation Army. Living fossils of the deep! (I heart you so much deep sea creatures.) Not entirely dissimilar: bowerbirds are…
Morning Coffee
Keepin’ it simple today. Behold! The world’s largest tensile structure. Dang noisy whales. On Beirut’s vintage Arab film posters. Black hole bubbles.
Morning Coffee
I can’t imagine a better phrase than “post-apocalyptic robot exoskeleton.” Oh wait, sexy fish mustache. Runner-up: stylin’ Dutch powerstation. Meanwhile, scientifically speaking, your parents hate you. And because these things…
Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #36
Best thing you can do if you come across a pack of mountain lions is try to grab one of the cubs. That way you have some way of negotiating…
Notable New York, This Week 7/6 – 7/11
This week in New York Jennifer Egan and Jane Mendelsohn talk about rocking out, Happy Ending provides us with another happy ending, Jakub Ziolkowski exhibits at Hauser & Wirth, David…