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Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #10
I’m sure they’re dolphins, Doug. Well then you can slather some SPF 80 on your pussy and sit here on the beach with the rest of the moms. I rented this boogie board for the whole afternoon and I’ll be damned if some goddamn…
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Morning Coffee
In 1924 the Navy was ordered to listen for martians. The Italian Futurist pasta sauna. You’ve probably seen things like this a million times, but damn it sometimes you just want to look at pictures of Parisian signage. Let’s all…
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Yeti Researcher Reconsidered, By a Smarty Pants English Student
I guess I finally rode McSweeney’s coattails into a graduate English department: McSweeney’s 17 forms a key part of the honors thesis of one Flora Feltham, at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Some time ago, she emailed me the…
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Let There Be Light
Did you know that for 800 million years after the Big Bang there was darkness — until the re-ionization of the gas throughout the universe enabled the first rays of starlight to shine? It’s true! Until recently, we hadn’t been…
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FUNNY WOMEN #6: Finally! A Job That Requires My Skill Set
Please only apply if you are a proven insomniac who would not think of getting into an office before noon.
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One Tongue?
In John McWhorter’s World Affairs article “The Cosmopolitan Tongue: The Universality of English,” he asks if it would be “inherently evil if there were not 6,000 languages spoken but one?”
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Morning Coffee
National Geographic on robotic animals. Also: 10 Tons make model planets, giant squids, dinosaurs, and more! Also Also: check out these pictures of a sperm whale eating a giant squid. In non-bad-ass-ocean news: Architectural Review looks at an award winning…
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Hate to Be Alone
The Rumpus and Wholphin present: Hate To Be Alone With Tamim Ansary, author of Destiny Disrupted, Ethan Gilsdorf, author of Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks, Melanie Gideon, author of The Slippery Year, Chelsea Martin, author of Everything Was Fine Until…
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Morning Coffee
Still have to work out a few minor tech problems, but we’re back. On eco-peril and how the Nazca caused their own collapse. Inflatable street art. Kurt Vonnegut’s book covers redesigned at last. How does one measure the distance between…
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Morning Coffee
Why do three buses come at once and what can we do to avoid it? Slate looks at tombstone portraiture. Jellyfish! Bank robbery notes. (via Gerrycanavan.) Mathlete takes on the Ayatollah. (via Mefi.)