The Periodic Table of Imaginary Elements. Jason Laferrera’s map birds are pretty cool. Behold the world’s oldest solar panel. An entirely new form of life has been discovered, which doesn’t…
The Wall Street Journal takes a look at “Twitter Updates, the 18th Century Edition.” Apparently, before the late 1800s, “diaries weren’t considered private or introspective. Instead, people wrote semi-public diaries…
Bummed about shelling out for printer cartridge after printer cartridge? Tired of submitting essays and papers, only to find that the breaking of your bank outweighs the heartbreak of oh…
“I was being paid minimum wage by an important publisher to sit very still and, occasionally, walk across the floor.” Writing on the subject of the publishing industry, especially if…
Department of look at this dang thing: really old xylophone. Unintentional thematic link: New Scientist on the world’s aging program. I am a sucker for this sort of thing: Comic…
This week: The Monthly Rumpus rocks the Makeout Room yet again, The Believer presents You’re a Horrible Person, but I Like You, San Francisco’s Cinematheque society has a neat film…
The Pulitzer Prize winners have been announced, including a win for ProPublica, “the first of the new breed of online, non-profit news organizations to win the most prestigious award in…
“Over all, salaries for this academic year are 1.2 percent higher than last year, the smallest increase recorded in the survey’s 50 years — and well below the 2.7 percent…
Tonight! Click here to buy tickets! April 12th at The Makeout Room, 3225 22nd Street, 7pm. Featuring authors Mac McClelland, Joanna Smith Rakoff, Randall Mann, Susan Steinberg, and Broke-Ass Stuart!…
Fuck the tour group, Doug. These guys want to take us back to their village and show us the real Amazon. Besides, remember how the guide even said there’s cannabis…
I’m sorry, but you can no longer smoke on submarines. Pictures of other people’s offices. On art and Jacque Cousteau’s dream of living under the sea. Shakespearean semantics arguments. More…