Do We Get Jetpacks This Time?
A New Scientist Histories column from ’05 noted that the last really huge volcanic eruption led to the invention of the bicycle:
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Please Read the Letter That I Wrote
Starved for funds, the United States Postal Service recently considered cutting its mail delivery service down to five-days a week–not a huge surprise considering their losses over the last couple…
Online Classes
Ever wanted to sit in on a class about moral reasoning and justice at Harvard? How about classical mechanics at M.I.T.? Hell, you must be curious about “Physics for Future…
Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #29
Have fun on the bus to Fargo, Doug. I just won a coin toss with some guitar player and now I’ve got a seat on a plane. Who? The guy…
Naked Androgyny
After nearly a decade of being a defining and defying figure in the art world, Ryan McGinley’s legitimacy is still being questioned. Last month McGinley unveiled his latest exhibit at…
Morning Coffee
I’m Walter. I’m going to be doing this while Dan Weiss is on vacation. But also, Dan Weiss told me to tell you to “look at this dang ol’ ant.”…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Have you been been keeping up with our poem-a-day project? Kenny Goldsmith talks about the challenges of twenty-first century writing. Rae Armantrout won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry this year,…
The Founding Fathers and Corporations
I’m not generally concerned, when it comes to Constitutional matters, what the Framers intended or didn’t intend when they wrote the thing. Far as I’m concerned, they knew what they…
Science Saturday
So there’s a volcano erupting in Iceland. Good luck getting into or out of or around northern Europe by air. Might be time to look into that luxury zeppelin technology…
Saturday Mid-Morning Links
Morning, everyone. I was up late last night catching “Death at a Funeral.” Go see it. Trust me on this. Make sure you watch the slide-show on this piece about…