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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Good news: there are more pictures from Mercury. Behold the stupid orchestra. Maybe I am missing something, but why do you need a wind turbine to be solar powered? I love illegal architecture, do you?
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National Poetry Month Day 4: “For the City that Nearly Broke Me” by Reginald Dwayne Betts
For the City that Nearly Broke Me Listen for echoes. Now bury what you lost in the wind’s silence.
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100 Years Ago at The New York Times Magazine
“Reading articles 100 years after they were published means that the topics are often surprisingly relevant. For example, when today’s media was talking about the 2010 census, I posted a Times Magazine article about how the 1910 census was counted…
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Book Reports on Christianity
Houston Judge John Clinton thought it would be a good idea to replace community service with book reports. Nine defendants were sentenced to reading a book of the judge’s choice and reporting back to court in a month to talk to him about it.…
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National Poetry Month, Day 3: “Why I Did Not Make Love to Your Dead Body” by Kirsten Kaschock
Kirsten Kaschock’s A Beautiful Name For a Girl was the Rumpus Poetry Book Club’s January selection. You can read the book club’s interview of her here, and you can find an extended bio at her webpage at Ahsahta Press. Why…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
I’ve already said this a lot, but it’s April, so expect it a lot more. You can follow our National Poetry Month poem-a-day project by visiting this post every day. I’ll be updating it every morning and adding a new…
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Great Movie Review? Or Greatest Movie Review Ever?
Denial Depot reviews Jaws from the perspective of a climate change denier. It’s as awesome as you might imagine. Here’s a taste. “Synopsis A group of so-called government funded “experts” whip up alarmist fears of a killer shark off the…
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Here’s How You Answer an FOIA Request
At least, this is how you answer it if you’re a university. Here’s some brief backstory–Wisconsin Republicans want the emails of a University of Wisconsin professor because he wrote a blog post critical of Governor Scott Walker’s anti-union bill. Here’s…
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Science Saturday
I want to start today’s roundup by noting that doing this the day after April Fools is tough, because scientists have diabolical senses of humor, and I’m not generally smart enough to know when they’re yanking my chain. In other…
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Saturday Morning Links
It’s day two of National Poetry Month, which means it’s day 2 of our poem-a-day project. Today’s poem is from Sandy Longhorn, and you can get to all Rumpus Original Poems here. The Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant is now leaking…
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National Poetry Month, Day 2: “The Starving Saint” by Sandy Longhorn
The Starving Saint Encased in silver, the feet of the saint crack and splinter in the first hard frost.