This week, get your food on at the Old Mint Building, learn how to write the perfect press release, get crafty at Workshop SF for the Divisadero Art Walk and…
“Rogers tried to explain the effects of the Emancipation Proclamation to the woman. “‘Well, you’ll have to fight your way out there before you can get that wench,’ she said.…
“It’s impossible for me, sitting at such enormous distance from the war in Vietnam, to understand the impact it had on those involved. Memorial Day is intended to be an…
First they said that monkeys do pay for sex, but only in a lab, and once they’ve been taught to use currency. Or maybe, it turned out, that wild macaques…
If you should find yourself in London, might we suggest checking out Street Museum? Redesigning NASA. Between the Waters is a super rad community gardens project. High school pictures of…
We mourn the death of poet Leslie Scalapino. Our condolences to her family and friends, and to all who were moved by her work. PEN American announced the release of…
Fred Vogelstein, writing for the Wired blog Epicenter, looks at Facebook’s history on privacy, and points out that we shouldn’t really be shocked at what Mark Zuckerberg is doing. “Indeed,…
How do oil dispersants work? Popular Science breaks it down for the layperson. Congress is suddenly interested in synthetic biology. Hilarity is sure to ensue, given the level of scientific…
Suzanne Menghraj at Guernica writes about disembodied heads and the presence of mind in the absence of brain: “And yet here I am despite all the impossibilities, eerily enchanted by…