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Water on Lens celebrates the art of cinematic underwater photography. Chimpanzee masks make your crippling fear of breathing the air fun! What do optical illusions tell us about our brains?…
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Morning Coffee
Scientists capture giant squid in the Gulf of Mexico! (via MeFi.) Nicholas Gurewitz (of the completely brilliant Perry Bible Fellowship) has created a soundtrack to the fake Wes Anderson movie…
Postcards from Lagos
The other week, Juxtapoz photographer Chris Osburn published a bunch of photos from a recent trip to Nigeria, and he’s calling the series Postcards from Lagos. He reports that Lagos…
“I love you, Irene.”
“Nothing I can say can change the past.” “I done lost my voice.” “I would like to say goodbye.” “I want to ask if it is in your heart to…
Ted Wilson Reviews the World #2
MY BODY ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing my body.
Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #3
I think that’s a female grizzly, Doug. I heard somewhere that you’re supposed to expose your genitals so that she knows you’re a dominant male. I don’t know where I heard…
The Rumpus Interview with Trucker Desiree
“I really had nothing left in my life when I came to trucking, just the clothes on my back.”
Morning Coffee
It turns out Virginia Woolf was a big fan of science fiction. Corpses doing it. Go on. Click. What could go wrong? Its been said that the defining characteristic of…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Welcome to Saturday night. Hope you like what I’ve dug up for you this week. Okay, this first one isn’t technically poetry, but if you’re interested in Bright Star, Jane…
Question of the Day
Who will play Rumpus Editor Stephen Elliott in the seemingly inevitable movie version of The Adderall Diaries?* Cillian Murphy? Philip Seymour Hoffman? Demetri Martin? My money is on Mos Def.…
Expression So Vile
The First Amendment case that’s getting most of the attention this year involves Citizens United and political speech by corporations, in large part because most court watchers believe that the…
Science Saturday
Can a dead fish perceive humans and tell their emotional states? No, but the reason for the story is an interesting one. This is the world’s most awesome science fair…