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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.”…
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Youth Literacy and Adult Fun!
August 26th is National Youth Literacy Day and what better way to celebrate than indulging in some youthful writing exercises? And furthermore, getting published? 826 National is inviting you to dabble in some creative writing with prompts inspired by the…
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Child Witnesses
“Today children of any age can be called to give evidence as their competence depends upon their understanding not their age.” But that has not always been the case; before the 17th century children younger than 14 were deemed unreliable…
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Because Pluto is Still Real For Some of Us
When Pluto’s planet status was woefully taken away, it wasn’t just you who felt betrayed by science and destabilized by NASA. There are plenty of third graders out there who were upset by the news. Check out the hate mail.…
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Borders Liquidating Nationwide
Goodbye Borders. The fraught corporation is emptying its stores across the country, finishing up the initial liquidation process that began earlier this year. Read how the disconnect between workers and management, and Borders’ attempt to stop employees from unionizing, led…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Fun fact: you’re being totally racist when you talk about what kind of comedy you like. River wolves eeeeee! You ain’t so old moon. 1960s futurescapes. Also, brand new Portuguese ruins.
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Can Legalizing Drugs be a Solution for the Violence in Mexico?
Some Mexican politicians and public officials–in addition to a significant portion of the Mexican public–believe that it is “time to go back to a policy of peaceful co-existence with the cartels”. With the death toll perpetually on the rise (around…
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Using Facebook to Incite Riots now Punishable by Law in the UK
Two young adult males–Jordan Blackshaw, 20, and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan, 22–both just received four-year sentences for using Facebook to incite a riot in their Cheshire hometown that never happened. Despite the announcement over Facebook concerning the riots that were purportedly going…