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Diagramming Writing
Here is a charming author venn diagram. Authors fall into one or more of three categories: those that write from the head, the mouth, or the heart. Whether or not you agree with the choices and their placement, it might…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Bjork likes biology and she hopes you do too. Literally, the truest contemporary linguistic assessment I’ve seen in a while. Ever been rejected? But not like this, right? Don’t let fear of thirst stop you from your next space journey.
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Seth Fischer, Editor Extraordinaire
Seth Fischer, our intrepid Sunday editor, recently relayed unto us his current house-sitting/writing endeavors down in L.A. His author interview on Neon Tommy covers the differences of being a writer in the two distant urban poles of California, his foray…
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Janine & Emily’s Girl Talk 2
Comedians Janine Brito (who made us keel over in a fit of laughter at our July event) and Emily Heller, are bringing back the funny for Girl Talk 2—everybody’s second favorite mash-up artist. Just kidding! It’s a follow-up to Girl…
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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…