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Libya Roundup
You can follow the Guardian’s live coverage here. Al Jazeerah is reporting that fighting has broken out near Gaddafi’s compound in Tripoli, but so far, no sign of Gaddafi himself. Two of Gaddafi’s sons, however, have been captured.. The Secretary-General…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The future is now #5086: French airport holograms! Google Street View is mapping the Amazon. Sad new aerodrome fans. Dogs totally know that you have cancer. As it turns out, early life was pretty much chilling out on the beach,…
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Getting Boys to Read
How can we interest boys in reading when the majority of YA bestsellers are targeted to girls, who are more into books about “mean girls, gossip girls, frenemies and vampires”? Sports journalist Robert Lipsyte, whose most recent books include a…
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Pandora for Books?
BookLamp.org could be called the cousin of Pandora. This new website allows you to type in the name of a favorite book or author and then finds books with similar “DNA” to help you find new books. BookLamp is a…
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Was Times New Roman Plagiarized?
Although I prefer Garamond, Times New Roman is the font of choice for the rest of the world. Did you know that this classic font has a shady past? Stanley Morison, a typography consultant for The Times, is credited as…
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West Memphis Three Roundup
The West Memphis Three is shorthand for Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley, and Jason Baldwin, three men who were convicted of the 1993 murder of three young boys in West Memphis, Arkansas. They were released yesterday after new evidence questioning their…
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Science Saturday
Physicists have figured out a way to stop coffee rings from forming, which is a bigger deal than you might expect. Stealing cars via text message. I expect this will appear on Leverage before too long. I linked to photos…
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Saturday Morning Links
Happy Saturday everyone! The splint is off, the coffee is hot, the English Premier League is streaming on my second screen, and I’m starting a new job on Monday. Look at these photos from inside the Fukushima Nuclear Plant. It’s…
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Dispatch #2 from the Great Mistakes Tour
Our managing editor, Isaac Fitzgerald, has published his second dispatch documenting LA-based comic and Rumpus contributor Kyle Kinane‘s Great Mistakes Tour. Update: You can find Isaac’s first dispatch here.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Way to predict an underwater volcano, scientists! Maybe Coco Chanel was a Nazi (maybe a lot of things). Ancient Egyptians understood the importance of good hair. Here are your wonderful 18th century animal drawings of the day. It is important,…
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A Scientific Pronoun Revelation
“Men and women use language differently because they negotiate their worlds differently. Across dozens and dozens of studies, women tend to talk more about other human beings. Men, on the other hand, are more interested in concrete objects and things.”…