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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…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #13
FAKING AN ILLNESS FOR SYMPATHY ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing faking an illness for sympathy.
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Notable New York, This Week 12/7 – 12/13
This week in New York Malcolm Gladwell and James Wood talk about Evangelicalism and the Contemporary Intellectual, members of the Velvet Underground reunite at the New York Public Library, 60 Writers/60 Places screens, Anne Carson performs, Andy Warhol films get…
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Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #14
These fucking DUIs are killing me, Doug. That’s why I’m getting my pilot’s license. No cops in the sky, buddy. More.
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The Egg Came First
The next time you crack an egg, either over the presumably safe stove in your cozy sublet kitchen, or with one of the (most-likely three) prongs of your smudged fork into the bubbled yoke of some over-easy-eggs at the neighborhood…
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Morning Coffee
“Nothing can’t be made with wood.” Street legal wooden car! I don’t know about you, but I could use some good news this Monday morning. Cell phones might not cause brain tumors after all! Evidently the US Defense Department is…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
I love Philip Larkin’s “An Arundel Tomb.” He hated it. On a side note, I really love that the BBC is willing to spend 30 minutes on the story behind a single poem. This is, I think, a good way…
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Science Saturday
The surface of Mars had liquid water recently. Two things. 1. I’m not talking about the latest Doctor Who special which hasn’t aired in the US yet so why would I know anything at all about it? 2. Recently has…
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Rosie the Riveter High School
There’s so much to love about this story–the use of a feminist icon as an educational motivator for women in non-traditional trades; the acknowledgment that jobs dominated by women aren’t valued monetarily the same way jobs dominated by men are;…
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2nd Annual Indie Lit Secret Santa
HTMLGIANT is sponsoring (moderating? overseeing?) their Second Annual Indie Lit Secret Santa. All you do is head over there and sign up between now and December 15, then when you get your person’s name, send him or her a book…