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Tweet Your Way to an MBA
How long did it take you to write your college essay? Or your grad school essay? I know I agonized for months over the perfect 500-800 words that would make admissions people fall in love with me. 140 characters is…
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On Marriage Equality
“If marriage equality launches a widespread flight to the culturally sanctioned form of partnership, have we lost a history and a field of experience that the rest of the world might well have benefited from?” —At The Boston Review, Jason…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Apparently romance novels are getting us knocked up and giving us STD’s and making us enter unhealthy relationships and the list goes on and on and on. (via) “It may not be due to any particular deficiency in the magazine,…
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Erase to the Top
Another miraculous educational turnaround, another example of rampant cheating. I think we’ve seen enough of a pattern now of school districts doing a quick turnaround only for the numbers to be fishy that now when a politician starts claiming “miracle!”…
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Have you seen?
I don’t think I’m bragging too much when I say that we have one of the best comics sections on the interwebs, but I think it gets ignored sometimes because you have to scroll down to see it. But make…
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Grow Your Own
Earlier this year, I saw this episode of Nova where they discussed growing replacement organs for people who need transplants. Transplant surgery is always tricky both because finding donors is hard and because the body rejects transplanted organs. Recipients have…
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Science Saturday
The Stanford Alumni magazine revisits the Stanford Prison Experiment forty years later, and catches up with some of the participants. I wonder if anyone will refer to this bear as the mitochondrial Eve of polar bears? Somehow I doubt it.…
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Saturday Morning Links
This time next week, I’ll be living in Des Moines, Iowa. Anyone want to help me unload a truck? I had some minor food allergies as a kid, and I carried an inhaler back when that sort of shit got…
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The Last Poem I Loved: “Rick” by Jericho Brown
Poets fall in love with poems all the time, so much so that the question “what poem did you love last” isn’t really a question, but an invitation to wax poetic about the current darling in your eye. Because the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Don’t forget to wish Neptune a happy first birthday next week! I love you chocolate printer. Let’s talk about the times of day crimes are committed, shall we? All polar bears are Irish, so there is that. It is pretty…
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First Amendment Porn
Kyle Richards, the Midwestern 21 year-old whose bank-robbing tendencies landed him in prison, now finds himself in the middle of a whole different controversy. Richards was denied his right to possess pornographic magazines in prison, which disregards his First Amendment…