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Science Saturday
Great photos from the NASA probe Dawn of the asteroid Vesta. Kepler spotted a planet orbiting two suns. UK researchers are attempting to recreate the effects of volcanic eruptions on the atmosphere as part of an attempt to limit the…
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Saturday Morning Links
Two months ago, the day I pulled into Des Moines, the temperature was over a hundred degrees. Yesterday there was a low of 37. This is going to take some adjustment. It’s Constitution Day. Who knew? Florida is being invaded…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
Questions, questions, questions. Is it that much of a surprise that major social networks are stealing other peoples’ ideas? So when will we be able to control computers with our minds? And is the iPhone 5 coming soon? Should lying…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Dinosaurs and birds together at last (in the distant distant past). On Edward Gorey’s illustrated letters. Some new time wasters for your weekend: biomedical ephemera and ancient maps! Perhaps you have wondered what was going on in space during the…
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Now We’re Talking
It’s not always oil that we spill into the ecosystem. Every now and then a pet cockatoo is let loose or escapes, joins a wild flock, and teaches the natives how to speak. The phenomenon accounts for “numerous” reports by…
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Books Set Free
The Guardian will unleash 15,000 books on the Brits in a Book Swap kicking off their six-week autumn books season. Readers and writers can also give away their favorites with an embedded message for the finder. If you are in…
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Touré Interview
“Post-racial suggests a world where race does not exist and racism does not exist, and it’s a completely ridiculous term…With post-Blackness, what I’m talking about is a conception of Blackness where the identity options are infinite. So, we’re not saying…
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Winning Captions
If you keep getting rejected by the New Yorker’s cartoon caption contest week after week, your frustration has company. The article offers some strategies for writing a winning submission. Findings of a quantitative analysis suggest captions should use words uncommon…
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Cartographic Controversy
“Map projections are just different ways of translating the dimensions of a globe onto a two dimensional surface. A sphere (or oblate spheriod, if you want to be fancy) can’t be flattened without causing some kind of distortion, be it…
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Post-Revolt Lit
“The concept of the ‘individual’ has been born during these revolts. At the same time, tribal structures and ethnic traditions will not simply disappear. Tribal culture will have to enter into a modern framework and that is very complicated but…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
We’re going to need a bigger rocket (to get to mars). Department of turnings-things-into-other-things: I bet that aircraft carrier would make a pretty neat diving reef. Thursday fluff: How To Be A Retronaut on 50s and 60s rebel youth and…