Would Tolstoy Get Tenure?
“Name of applicant: Rimbaud, Arthur “The candidate is not suited to a university environment except as an expellable member of a fraternity – if one would take him. The committee…
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Morning Coffee
The LA Times looks back on “Day of the Locust.” For some reason, placebos seem to be getting more effective. Take THAT science and medical advances! Atlas Obscura is a…
The Best Fake Holocaust Memoir Ever
Born (and undoubtedly circumsized) in 2001, Booklyn-based Heeb Magazine has been irreverently covering Jewish culture for nearly a decade. Recently they one-upped themselves in the hilariously inappropriate category with the…
You Don’t Know Me: Bomb, Opium, Gigantic New York Summer Soiree
Get ready to get your rocks off. Literary art mags Bomb, Opium and Gigantic are joining forces to host a night of short artistic/musical/literary programs this Wednesday, August 26th at…
Morning Coffee
Adaptive re-use of crashed starships. If presenting Wuthering Heights like a new Stephenie Meyer gets people reading, does it matter? Scientists draw squid using its 150 million-year-old fossilised ink. A…
Honest People Just Can’t Help It
Good news! Honesty, it turns out, may not be something that we can control. In a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists Joshua Greene…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Charles Bernstein tells us that the University of Alabama Press is having a recession sale on many of the titles in their Modern and Contemporary Poetics series. (Via Culture Industry)…
A New Take on the Movable Feast?
The Guardian has a strange (to me) story about the world’s cocaine bar, called Route 36. It’s in La Paz, Bolivia, and because it’s an after-hours club which, you read…
Coming Out of the Bog
Earlier this year, a couple of archaeologists pulled a barrel of butter out of a peat bog in Ireland, about 25 miles west of Dublin. It wasn’t the first time…
Science Saturday
In the months I’ve been the Saturday editor, I’ve noticed that a large number of my links and other posts come from science and technology sources: popular magazines, not hardcore…
Spend a Saturday Afternoon with Ted
We did this back in June, but there have been a lot of good videos posted from Ted in the last month and a half, so here’s a few highlights.…