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Water Causes Cancer And Other Truths
Time Magazine has already called it “The Decade From Hell.” (Couldn’t have been worse than the 1940’s?! Could it? I mean the 40’s had Hitler AND Stalin.) And if you have survived the “aughts” reasonably intact as we caterwaul our…
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The December Monthly Rumpus
December 14 at The Makeout Room, 3225 22nd St., 7pm Get Advance Tickets! Click here! Please join us for a night of literature, music, and comedy featuring: Andrew Leland from The Believer Magazine James Nestor, author of Get High Now…
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Morning Coffee
Mystery lights in the Norwegian sky. I love the universe! (update: Bad Astronomy has gotten to the bottom of it!) Photographing Las Vegas’ neon boneyard. Gerry Canavan points us to this epic document of classic scams. A family portrait of…
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“Friends” vs. Friends, Twitter vs. The Long Missive
William Deresiewicz just published a long essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education that’s worth spending some time with: “Faux Friendship,” in which he traces how the concept of friendship has changed since classical times — it used to be…
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What Did You Read in 2009?
Want to know what book Jonathan Lethem really enjoyed this year? How about three books that Nick Flynn liked? Dana Goodyear? Jesse Ball? Well you’re in luck, The Millions has begun its “A Year in Reading” series as 2009 comes…
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Social Rumpus
Are you a fan of The Rumpus on Facebook yet? Click here and join us, you will have no regrets. Or at least not many. Twitter more your thing? Click here. You can also get monologues from Rumpus editor Stephen…
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TRUTH SERUM:
Costumed (Part 2)Truth Serum books, in case your computer screen is broken. (Or gets broken by a complete stranger I absolutely did not hire.)
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Morning Coffee
Fun fact: lobsters don’t age! Scientists want to know why your brother won’t share with you. Chip Kidd on designing Nabokov. Everyday is a good day for insect macro-photography. The world’s coolest subway stations. Hurray for public transportation!
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My Cousin Bernie
Rumpus contributor Joshuah Bearman and (coincidentally) his cousin Sarah have created a game so fun they just had to share it with the internet. My Cousin Bernie started when “Sarah wandered in to Josh’s one day and mixed up two…
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FUNNY WOMEN #9: Mars/Venus for Your Fetus
Dear Future Dads, So, you’re expecting a baby (by “expecting” I mean “dreading,” and by “a baby,” I mean “the consequences of using that glow-in-the-dark condom from 1989”)! That’s wonderful!
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The Road to Cell
I wrote a New Scientist piece earlier this year on the nearly criminal foot-dragging by Detroit over safety advances made by pioneering engineers in the 1950s and 60s, and that sad pattern seems to have been repeated… with cell phone…
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Morning Coffee
New Scientist photo-essay on homosexual animals. Aww! Other countries are a lot better at rad eco design than us: the Greenspotlight. Warsaw urban art. On the other end of the spectrum: Norman Rockwell’s research photos. (via MeFi.) A look into…