It’s raining outside, everything is going to be ok. Let’s get straight to the point: a new David Attenborough series is a thing to be celebrated. Swedish architecture porn: Evolver!…
Last week Alexis Madrigal wrote a fascinating article on Wired.com about terrestrial astrophotography; that is to say, photos of the night sky taken from the ground. Most such photos that…
Mike Webster, “one of the greatest players in N.F.L. history,” went on to become a recluse who slept on the floor at an Amtrak Station. Terry Long, who played for…
THE ROCKVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the Rockville Public Library.
Rumpus Editor Stephen Elliott discussed The Adderall Diaries in an open forum interview that took place in the comments section over at Gawker. The interview was moderated by James Frey.…
50 years of space exploration (I’m sorry if you’ve seen this five times already, but man is it pretty). Yesterday was the 50th birthday of Goma, the first gorilla ever…
Life falling short in the “technical drawings of german zeppelins” department? You’re welcome. Don’t pee on airplanes! Photomicrography. NY Times on kosher elevators and other elements of 21st century Orthodox…
“… Professor Sandel says a “philosophically frank” university should tell those it rejects that “we don’t regard you as less deserving than those who were admitted” and that “it is…
The Sycamore Review paid someone for a poem. It cost them a quarter and the poem was written on a bar napkin. Sounds like a worthwhile trade. Kent Johnson on…
The jokes write themselves sometimes–on the same day that the sitting President of the US wins the Nobel Peace Prize, we bombed the moon. To be fair, we had warned…