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A Conversation with a Soldier
Note: All names have been changed. Major Mark Ross is currently home from Iraq. He has had two tours of duty and will redeploy in a year. He knows he suffers from PTSD and that returning to battle is unhealthy,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Behold the Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator. (via Gerry Canavan.) Sheep: not nearly as dumb as THE MAN would have you think. Good news for Catholics on the go: the church has endorsed the official confession booth iPhone app. Also, here…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This might be a good time to talk about snake legs. Spinach will save us all. Oh, that’s what I was looking for, meat-eating furniture. Cuba has some neat building interiors huh?
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Spelling Bee for Cheaters in San Francisco
On Thursday, February 17, 826 Valencia is presenting its first-ever Spelling Bee for Cheaters at the Herbst Theatre. As its name implies, this will not be your average bee. No, Spelling Bee for Cheaters is “a tournament that tests not…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
We need language to understand numbers (I still do not understand numbers). What does history look like? Long story short: people love toys and have for sort of a while. Of great importance: it is a bad idea to rob…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #73
THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the Large Hadron Collider.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Adorable news to start your Monday: Dog Show pig! Hurray! Rejection the Gertrude Stein way. Soviet space secrets are the best kind of secrets. National Geographic looks at the Paris catacombs, which is basically my favorite thing (I have a…
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Helping the Descendants of Henrietta Lacks
“I first envisioned it as a foundation for education, but I realized that the people who were affected the most were her kids, and they needed some medical care and dental care,” Ms. Skloot said from her home in Chicago.…
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Judging a Book by Its Cover
I’ll admit that I’ve used cover art as a deciding factor in purchasing or not purchasing a book. For instance, I do not buy books that have had their covers changed due to a movie tie-in. This week’s lesson on…
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Welcome to Sunday
Due to AWP-fueled exhaustion, I will be leaving you in the hands of LaToya Jordan today. Until next week, here is a video of Douglas Kearney giving an incredible reading. I saw him at the Fence event last night (which…
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Tandem Reading: J.G. Ballard and Tom McCarthy’s Remainder
Remainder by Tom McCarthy can only lazily be compared to Kafka or Murakami, Ionesco or Calvino. Really, there is an English dryness about it that is more like Graham Greene having a surrealist fit. Or Iris Murdoch as edited by…
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The Lay Of The Land
As a writer trying to write about “America,” my biggest struggle has been fully grasping the variety of spaces that is contained within America. Which is why I’ve been an avid supporter of the Center For Land Use Interpretation for…