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Lunatic Ladies of the Laboratory
While academia works to adjust the long-standing under-representation of women in science, consider for a moment the inevitable corollary to those numbers: the dearth of female mad scientists.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Pooh Prescribed. You’ve wondered. Don’t lie. People looking sweaty vs. chic or me, pre vs. post caffeine. Squid, reanimated. Not for the squeamish.
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Mental Illnesses, Retroactively Diagnosed
Salon.com’s got an article on the correlation between mental illness and leaders—citing Winston Churchill and Hitler as examples. The topic of discussion is First-Rate Madness, Nassir Ghaemi’s book on the famous historical figures that showed signs of mental illness. Check…
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The Last Poem I Loved: “Lessons from a Mirror” by Thylias Moss
At Redbones. Hosiery Seams on a Bowlegged Woman. Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler. Pyramid of Bone. Rainbow Remnants in Rock Bottom Ghetto Sky. Small Congregations. Tokyo Butter. The titles alone are provocative enough to evoke curiosity about her poems.…
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You Know When the Internet Makes You Mad?
Internet-based commenting is one of those fork-in-the-road situations: you can take the high road or there is always the low road, which you may pass on the way to slurring slums, and then there’s the insult inferno. Navigate the pathways…
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Humiliation is for Everybody
NPR Books is dissecting humiliation in this author interview with Wayne Koestenbaum (whose has a very recent book aptly titled “Humiliation”). Humiliation is the only way to describe certain life experiences—it’s both familiar and completely unavoidable—but it turns out it’s…
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Filming The Police
Phones and other devices have given people the ability to record and expose police misconduct. Sometimes, these recordings provide evidence for bringing charges against brutality, such as in the case of Oscar Grant. However, as this article explores, existing wiretapping…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Sperm whales have the biggest brains and they know how to use them. Is your baby already asking for a touch screen? We may have more doppelgangers that we can count, but still be all alone in the universe. Speaking…
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WHERE I WRITE #15: The Hospital Room
I’ve only rarely worried about death. The one time I actually was dying in a hospital for a while, I wasn’t worried about it.
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A Night of Facial Hair
Walter Green, the designer behind our beloved Write Like a Motherfucker mugs, graphically profiled Whiskey Waxing at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, a night dedicated to facial hair, in its multitudinous forms, appreciated by many-a-Bay Area folk. Check…
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“Getting bin Laden”
Nicholas Schmidle’s article in the New Yorker delves into the details of the night in Abottabad when Osama Bin Laden was killed. The band of 23 Navy SEALs concealed within two Black Hawks, modified to fly undetected into Pakistani territory.…
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Travel Fail?
You know that pervasive storyline that says that travel will transform you, change your life, and help you find yourself? What if that does not happen; have you “failed” at travel? This essay considers that question, and takes notice of…