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Science Saturday
Flashier birds produce stronger sperm. I wonder how that would play out in human males? Hi-Res flyover pictures will help in the Haiti recovery. Satellite photos have been good, but these are 3-d pictures which make identification of buildings easier.…
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Confusing Metaphor with Reality
In her scathing piece for Slate about Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Dahlia Lithwick compares the Supreme Court’s actions to those of the Blue Fairy in Pinocchio, saying that they turned “a corporation into a real live boy.” Lithwick…
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Saturday Morning Links
What happens when Vanity Fair wanders into Kentucky to tour a Creationist Museum? Go see the destruction for yourself. Don “Moose” Lewis wants everyone to know that he’s not a racist, and he has no idea where anyone could have…
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Eyeglasses For Everyone; No, Really: Everyone
The Washington Post reports that an English physician, Joshua Silver, has designed eyeglasses that absolutely anybody in the world, no matter how poor, can afford, and he has plans to distribute a million pairs in India this year. The glasses are…
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“Mr. Plimpton’s Revenge”
Author Dinty W. Moore has an interesting tale about chance run-ins with George Plimpton that starts when Moore was an undergrad at the University of Pittsburgh and ends, decades later, in Baltimore, Maryland. What makes the story more than just…
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Morning Coffee
Boingboing wants to talk to you about sloths for a second. Gay for clouds! How I plan to impress my girlfriend’s parents. New York City shower portraits. Maybe it’s time we rethink gravity a little. (hella entropy dudes!)
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Tonight! ONE YEAR LATER in New York
The Rumpus and HTMLGIANT present ONE YEAR LATER, a celebration of the first anniversary of The Rumpus, tonight, January 21, 2010. The night will feature readings by Rivka Galchen, Tao Lin, Deb Olin Unferth, Justin Taylor and Stephen Elliott, musical…
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The Latest on Haiti
Some people in Haiti are riding out the earthquake in decent shape. Any guesses who? As we mentioned yesterday,
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Morning Coffee
Passport photos of famous artists. (via MeFi.) Dinosaur comics reminds us that there are still reasons to be excited. Here is that info on exciting new Chinese infrastructure architecture you were asking about. Crazy-gorgeous-washed-out-Spanish-photography of the day. The actual use…
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The February Monthly Rumpus
The Rumpus proudly presents: The February Monthly Rumpus February 8th at The Makeout Room, 3225 22nd Street, 7pm. Get Advance Tickets! Click Here! Featuring authors Tony Dushane, Robin Ekiss, Ethan Watters, Kevin Sampsell, and Daniel Handler! With the hilarious DJ…
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Morning Coffee
Monroe County Indiana Coroner’s reports, 1896-1935. It’s raining as I type this, so this seems like a good start. (via MeFi.) Tattoo locations (and what they say about you). Hey, climate change isn’t all that bad; sometimes it creates rad…
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Researchers Show How to Hijack Clicks on Facebook
CNET has a short piece up about a number of security vulnerabilities on Facebook that have recently been demonstrated by researchers — and they’re more serious than the notion that some random employee there might check out your profile. In…