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Readers Report: Right Place, Wrong Time
A collection of short pieces written by Rumpus readers pertaining to the subject of “Right Place, Wrong Time.” Edited by Susan Clements.
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Troy Davis Update
Very sad news from the NYTimes: “Supreme Court Will Not Stop Davis Execution.” For live updates follow @kimseverson. Update: “Troy Davis dead at 11:08.”
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Troy Davis Roundup
Troy Davis, if you haven’t heard, is scheduled to be executed today in the state of Georgia. There are significant questions as to his guilt. Of the nine eyewitnesses, seven have recanted their testimony, one is the person suspected of…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Oh man, I sure hope the Low Line park gets made. Let’s take a look at all the world’s submarine cables. Perhaps you’ve wondered what the mathematically average font would be. What would happen if everyone stopped smoking, pretty much…
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Digital Abuse Surveyed
“Young people immersed in the online world are encountering racist and sexist slurs and other name-calling that probably would appall their parents and teachers. And most consider it no big deal, a new poll says.” The survey suggests that people…
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Suburbia Saving
An emerging movement seeks to orient suburbs around farms rather than golf courses. “According [to] the American Farmland Trust, more than 6 million acres of agricultural land in the United States were lost to development between 1992 and 1997 alone.…
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Feminist Firsts
Taking us back to her prep school days, Miranda July reveals her first feminist action and the fallout. “I didn’t have a plan beyond this moment. I wasn’t sure anyone would even get it—who and what I was talking about.…
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Scratch-n-Sniff
A scratch-and-sniff guide to New York is in the works. The children’s book, called New York PHEW York, will include “both the good (strawberry, pizza, hot dogs, churros) and the bad (garbage, sewer steam, horse manure) smells which sum up…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
What does it even mean to create artificial blood vessels on a 3D printer? The ancient Irish were totally terrified of zombies. “On the Writing of the Insane (with illustrations).” Also here are some cannibalism facts and maps, courtesy of…
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A Look at What Makes Google Translator Tick
“Google Translator deals with translation on the basis not that every sentence is different, but that anything submitted to it has probably been said before.” Google Translator defies traditional methods of automatic translation (via “syntax and vocabulary”), searching instead for…
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Notable San Francisco: 9/19-9/25
This week in San Francisco Monday 9/19: Bay Area based John Sakkis and Lynn Xu headline the 1st and 3rd Mondays Poets! series at Bird and Beckett tonight. Readings will be followed by an open mic. 7PM, FREE. A lecture…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #103
NETFLIX ★★★★★ (1 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Netflix.