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Historians Blog Too
“The point is that while we cherish open-ness or dialogue, we relish our closed structures and cordoned-off and privileged hallways. Academic blogging, to this graduate student, was a way out of this clubbiness.” Bookslut’s interview with historian Manan Ahmed praises…
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Atlantic ♥
Atlantic senior editor Ta-Nehisi Coates calls Alex Gallo-Brown’s recent “Where I Write” essay “awesome sauce.” Thanks Coates, we love you back! Update: You can read our interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates here.
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Preserving Books
The Internet Archive is now setting its sights on physical space, aiming to preserve one copy of every book, record and movie they obtain. As Google Books makes it increasingly easier to discount the importance of physical books (and the…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
All roads lead to the philosophy wikipedia article. The NY Times wants us to think about Jellyfish. Ok! Men in high heeled shoes in art. Can we all agree that the entirely azure Moroccan city is pretty cool? Also some…
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Welcoming Profanity
Profanity can be somewhat polarizing, but why not appreciate all the incidentally humorous and intensified moments that come from the foul parts of language? This essay is an ode to a certain four-letter word and praises the use of the…
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French Faux Pas
A twenty year-old French law that sought to keep the news media from promoting commercial enterprises is being newly reinforced. This means that using “Facebook” and “Twitter” on air is strictly forbidden. This seems like a good way to stave…
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The Optimism of Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall speaks with Bill Moyers about the work she has done, not just with chimpanzees, but with creating a better world for our children and grandchildren to live in.
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FUNNY WOMEN #54: Thomas Hardy Isn’t Jane Austen; Get Over It
They hated the ending. I knew they would. They always hate the ending. “They” means my university students. “The ending” means the last chapters of Thomas Hardy’s novel Far From the Madding Crowd (1874).
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
How did I miss NASA’s new deep-space vehicle? On the dark art of Heavy Metal umlauts. (via @SandiV.) The Venice Biennale has the best ATMs in the world. Hollywood’s gunslinging craze, 1956.
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Where I Write #10: Nowhere, Everywhere
Most often, I don’t. I watch basketball instead. I check my e-mail. I cook dinner and make love to my girlfriend and read magazine articles about the financial crisis. I move constantly, from Brooklyn, New York, to the Pacific coast…
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Eating Your “Cultural Vegetables”
Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott evaluate what is boring and why, in the context of film. They discuss the films that are deemed boring because they don’t distract enough from the passing of time and the ones that incite a…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #89
CARS 2 ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Cars 2.