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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
in 2011 violinists can duet with radioactive particles. Department of tiny things: look at these little fire escapes. Cabinet Magazine on how to make anything signify anything else. Also, waste incinerator as laser shooting ski ramp. Flavorwire rounds up famous…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #72
SHORTS ★★★★★ (5 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing shorts.
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Notable New York, This Week 1/31-2/06
This week in New York lots of literary events to make you forget that you’re not going to be at AWP: authors Maxine Hong Kingston and Leslie Marmon Silko introduced by Toni Morrison at the 92nd Street Y, Bomb Magazine…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I’ve been really fascinated watching the architectural proposals for “A Room For London” come in. Mainly because I am boring. If you are in need of some enlightenment perhaps you’d like to read Gandhi and Tolstoy’s correspondence. This week in…
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What’s Happening in Egypt
The New York Times is also live-blogging from Egypt, and columnist Nick Kristof is in Cairo as well. Anonymous provides 20 ways to circumvent the Egyptian government’s internet block. A friend of mine said this about Anonymous, and I have…
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“And you wonder why such kids grow up”
“Playgrounds for kids are often decorated with fairy tales, cartoon or just funny made-up characters. They are intended to bring joy to the children, but sometimes it is scary to look at them. Even for adults.” And now, the Internet…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
You really should buy my book, but if you were thinking of joining the Poetry Book Club this month, you’ll get it for free–signed and everything. We–I or The Rumpus–aren’t making any money off of it this way. It’s all…
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The Latest from Egypt
You can watch Al Jazeera streaming here. They’re going to be the best people on the ground to follow without a doubt. Here’s a profile of Omar Suleiman, the man President Hosni Mubarak has chosen as his new vice-President (for…
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Science Saturday
Ancient humans may have left Africa far earlier than we thought. And yet, only about 28% of public school science teachers “consistently and ‘unabashedly’ introduce evidence that evolution has happened, and build lesson plans with evolution as a unifying theme…
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Saturday Morning Links
Why don’t you buy my book? If you’re in south Florida and looking for something to do tonight, come by 18 Rabbit Gallery and check out the Sound Art show. I’ve seen some of the pieces already–my partner (and Rumpuser)…
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What’s Happening in Egypt
I’ve discovered, having done a number of these roundups for The Rumpus now, that The Guardian is one of the best anywhere at covering a story like this. Nick Baumann at Mother Jones also has good explanations of what’s going…