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Recycling-Plus!
Scientists in Japan have discovered a way to create edible steaks from human feces. No, I’m not shitting you. “Mitsuyuki Ikeda, a researcher from the Okayama Laboratory, has developed steaks based on proteins from human excrement. Tokyo Sewage approached the…
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This is not a joke…
Though in a saner world, the people who made this decision would be considered one. “A Jerusalem rabbinical court condemned to death by stoning a dog it suspects is the reincarnation of a secular lawyer who insulted the court’s judges…
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The Last Poem I Loved: “somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond” by E. E. Cummings
“Somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond” is not only the Last Poem I Loved, it also is actually the first. The way its writer (of whom I shall elaborate later on) likens one fine woman to flowers (and to a…
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Science Saturday
We’re not quite halfway through the year and this has already been one of the most extreme weather years on record. And hurricane season just started. Nice collection of images of this week’s lunar eclipse. A third of people say…
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Saturday Morning Links
Very often I will begin this link roundup with a joke about being hung over. None today, because I actually am hung over. Amazon’s Kindle store is selling spam, among other things. A British student is fighting extradition to the…
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Revenge of the Prey: How a Deer Killed My Dad
I always hated Father’s Day. Did I need to be reminded that I couldn’t remember my father?
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“The White House Wants to Get Him”
I’m still stunned from reading this story on the front page of yesterday ’s New York Times. Officials in George W. Bush’s White House, James Risen reports, directed the Central Intelligence Agency to dig up damaging personal information on Juan…
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Eat Your Sprouts
“Any potential act of terrorism simply feeds the system, creating new opportunities to add yet more layers to one bureaucracy or another, or to promote new programs of surveillance, control, and war-making.” Guernica Magazine’s Tom Engelhardt discusses terrorism in the…
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“Take Me Home”
The Rumpus Proudly Presents: “Take Me Home” Click Here to Purchase Tickets! July 11th, 7pm, The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco. Featuring spoken word performer Rich Ferguson and authors Meg Day, Alexandra Teague, Jesse Ball. And the comedy…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The best kinds of animals are transparent animals. Admittedly we should have linked to this yesterday: Nabokov maps out Bloomsday. Here is a website that is in french but that includes video of the library of the future!!! Letters of…
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For Those Without Travel Plans
Feeling down about the stagnant state of your summer? These essays on failed vacations and un-fun trips will make you glad. Stories feature David Sedaris and David Foster Wallace, and other great authors. The perils of Disney World, the deep…