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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
When I go, I want to go on a euthanasia-coaster. A look at the history of Science Fiction. Icons Zootomicae. Admit it, you want to look at 1960s Paris fashion. What did you do when YOU were nine? (Probably not…
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Doll Fascination
File these two under “a freaky campaign to get adults to play with dolls”: Did you know that Barbie likes director David Lynch’s organic coffee? Or that your favorite doll could be turned into a wine glass?
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100 Interviews
Late last year, Gaby Dunn, a New York journalist and comedian, set out to interview 100 people in a year (deadline October 1, 2011) for her project titled “100 Interviews.” She created a list of people she “knew existed in…
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Whitewashing the X-Men
“Captain America punching Hitler in the jaw is Captain America knocking him across the room with the weight of the culture. The X-Men going from multiracial to white to needing a white Messiah is the weight of the culture. The…
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When a Marriage License Just Isn’t Enough
Want to get entangled quantum-ly? Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats has developed a way for the two of you to join at the subatomic level. “Keats has designed an entangling apparatus, which, when situated in a sunny window and exposed to…
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A History of Coffee Cup Lids
Nicola Twilley, writing at The Atlantic, provides a brief design history of the plastic lid that aggravates so many of us when we’re trying to ingest our precious, precious caffeinated beverages. There have been at least 40 different individually patented…
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Science Saturday
There’s a Tricorder X-Prize now. I just had a nerdgasm. I don’t know whether this says more about human engineers or slime molds, but either way, it’s interesting. How rare are rare earth metals, and how will that affect the…
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Saturday Morning Links
So after 11 years of unmarried bliss, Amy and I are getting married. A high school sophomore challenges Congressperson Michelle Bachmann to a debate and facts-test on the Constitution. I’d watch it. How a fetus gets its face. Side question:…
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Has Your Letter Been Published in My Column?
A letter from Sugar: Dearest sweet peas whose letters have been published in my columns, I need your help. As many of you have suggested, I’m pursuing the possibility of publishing a book of my columns. In the course of…
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Look at How Much Fun We’re Having
The Creosote Journal has posted a write up of last Monday’s Rumpus in San Francisco (beautiful photos included).