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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…
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Crosswords, Broken Down By a Professional
Will Shortz, the puzzle mastermind behind the NY Times Crossword Puzzle, is revealing his strategies to the Atlantic. He goes through the whole process—fishing the right crossword from the submission slush pile, and then the major clue editing and revising…
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A Dominatrix in the Country
When writer Melissa Febos’ book came out (which some of you got to hear her read at last month’s monthly Rumpus), she found a reason to shed the long sleeves and expose her tattoos to the college classes she taught.…
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Why We Love Jackie O
The tapes of Jackie O’s interview with Arthur Schlesinger, four months after her husband’s assassination were not supposed to be released until fifty years after her death. Her daughter Caroline Kennedy ended up releasing them early (the result of an…
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School Reform’s Shortcomings
Diane Ravitch walks us through the history of school issues and the failed reform policies in the American educational system. The black-white achievement gap, test scores that diverge along socioeconomic lines and the failures of the No Child Left Behind…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Santa Cruz understands the best way to stop crime is math. Let’s all discuss living bridges! Sharks used to be adorable. Sometimes it is important to look into pop-cultures past for some first class snark. Perhaps to help you through…
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No Moms in Prison in California
California state prisons are releasing their female inmates that are mothers so they can serve the rest of their sentencing under house arrest. This is bold change for incarceration in California and a result of the overcrowded prisons. Read more…
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Migrations Map
Here is a map to help you visualize human migration over the course of our 200,000 year existence. Using data based on mitochondrial DNA difference, the map models migratory patterns as humans “moved outward from Africa into Asia, and later…
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TV’s Backwards Progress
One would hope that there has been steady progress in terms of the presence of women writers in television, but a recent San Diego State study suggests quite the opposite. Their Center for the Study of Women in Television and…
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Letters from James Dean
A little bit of James Dean has been preserved in the recently-uncovered love letters he wrote to his girlfriend Barbara Glenn. They’re dated from 1954, the year before he was killed in an auto accident and also during the period…
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Computers Replacing Writers
There are those companies that don’t pay their writers to produce content in order to save money, and then there is this. Narrative Science software produces content. It’s being used by twenty companies in order to avoid taking on more…
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Questionable Ranking Systems for MFA Programs
Poets & Writers recently ranked the country’s MFA programs, and as rankings often do, it is being received with some hostility. Their hierarchy of MFA programs is based on the word of mouth of MFA applicants, rather than the US…