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Questioning Truth in Photos
Errol Morris, the truth-seeker/director of the documentary The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War is once again having us question the facts. His collection of essays, Believing is Seeing (Observations on the Mysteries of Photography) considers our undiscerning…
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Inauspicious News For Our Economy
The whole system of American outsourcing has rendered our industry incapable of producing the next technological innovation, which unfortunately is the key to reconstructing our economy. One example of this is the Kindle. Amazon doesn’t have the means for the…
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Finland’s Got Education Down
This article is a gem from a recent Longreads selection, on the subject of education. Finland’s got an optimally functioning educational system, one that America can learn a thing or two from. Its success is due to its “whatever it…
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Notable New York, This Week 8/29-9/04
This week in New York a Post-Irene Open Slam at louderArts, Word for Word poetry at Bryant Park, The Believer magazine celebrates its music issue, free movie at Brooklyn Bridge Park, Seven Against Thebes at East River Park, MoMA PS1…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
As it turns out, construction in LA used to be a lot more visually stunning. What’s up planet made of diamonds? Way to be 100 neon lights! The internet loves scanning things that shouldn’t be scanned. The internet also loves…
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What About the Prisoners?
Solitary Watch reports that the Riker’s Island prison isn’t going to be evacuated even though similar small islands and barrier beaches surrounding New York City are in Zone A. In fact, according to the NY Times’s City Blog, the city’s…
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The Last Poem I Loved: “The Crowds Cheered as Gloom Galloped Away” by Matthea Harvey
Matthea Harvey’s “The Crowds Cheered As Gloom Galloped Away” resides in her second full-length collection, the wonderfully-titled Sad Little Breathing Machine. It is a poem about ponies, sadness, and the inversion of cognitive behavioral therapy. It is a poem about…
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Science Saturday
There was a new bird species discovered in the US for the first time in 40 years. The catch? It was discovered in a museum collection. Ornithologists are still trying to find a live one in the wild. Are you…
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Saturday Morning Links
To our friends on the east coast dealing with Hurricane Irene–be safe. I know from experience it’s unlikely that any of you are reading this, but even so. A storm like this one is nothing to mess with, even if…
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On Fracking and Earthquakes
“The occurrence of yet another freak earthquake in an unusual location is leading many anti-fracking activists…to wonder whether ‘fracking’ in nearby West Virginia may be responsible.” This article discusses the link that geologists observe between fracking—specifically the step where waste…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Evidently there was some news about Steve Jobs this week or something, but more importantly maybe his patents don’t count because of Stanley Kubrick. Someday I’ll stop linking to pictures of abandoned things (this is probably a lie). The key…