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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 and Joseph Paxton tried to determine whether honesty was a…
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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) Peerscribe describes itself as a social network by writers, for…
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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 that right, serves cocaine, it’s constantly on the move. For…
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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 this has happened–in fact, it’s not even unusual anymore–but it…
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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 stuff. But I rarely have much more to add to…
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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. Willard Wigan does some of the most jaw-dropping art I’ve…
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Saturday Morning Links
Welcome to Saturday everyone. Warning: following this link might make you question humanity for the rest of the day. Hint–it involves Twilight and a dildo. Via Slog the Stranger. More Edward Cullen madness at Geekologie. For crying out loud, some…
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Morning Coffee
Howard Hughes’ un-flyable plane makes for a pretty great boat. One bank is letting people with good credit deposit checks by phone. Ohio is a piano for some reason. Trying to photograph Raymond Chandler’s LA. New Scientist on bomb-throwing deep…
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An Unknown Master Of Horror
“Sometimes there would be an isolated house hanging onto the edge of an open field of shadows and shattered glass. And the house would be so contorted by ruin that the possibility of its being inhabited sent the imagination swirling…
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Random Media Notes
The Seattle Times covers a fascinating story: “A mystery man awakes in Discovery Park.” O’Reilly/NBC feud takes a new turn. Jayson Blair, “best known for foisting plagiarism and fabrications into the pages of The New York Times,” is now a…
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The Longest “Poem”
“Good Morning world.. out grinding to get mine, and I will get mine.. “i totally recommend the newest Iron and Wine “The Freshman and Juniors were awesome in class today. “dentist appointment AND optometrist appointment. NERD DAY!” Andrei Gheorghe is…