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Wikileaks, Twitter, and the US Government
If you’re connected to Wikileaks, the US government wants to see your Twitter information. They might also want to see your Facebook account, your Google search history, and who knows how much other information. And it doesn’t matter who you…
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Science Saturday
There’s a lunar core? I thought it was just a hunk of rock. Ever seen a solar eclipse from space? Now you can. The Russians are about to drill into Lake Vostok. Why is that a big deal? Because it’s…
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Saturday Morning Links
The hardest part of starting any semester is deciding which essays to assign your students, not because you want them to find enlightenment, but because you want to figure out which ones will result in the least amount of pain…
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January’s Rumpus
At 7pm, on January 10th (this coming Monday!) at The Make-Out Room in San Francisco, The Rumpus proudly presents: “Warm Bodies, Cold Nights” Featuring authors Derrick Brown, Bucky Sinister, Andrew Nelson, Peter Orner, and Amber Tamblyn! A performance by Abe…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I’m sure you’re all sick and tired of reading about the Crab Nebula. This week in European pedestrian bridges. Lady tears be making dudes testosterone levels go down and such. Flavorwire has a handy slide show of great modern museum…
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Ishmael Reed On The “Jim Crow Media”
This last year Ishmael Reed published a book of satirical essays targeting the current American media: Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media: The Return of the Nigger Breakers. Despite being a MacArthur Fellow, a critically-acclaimed author of nine novels…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
If you are anything like me you want to know about caves in Nottingham. I am incredibly sorry, but I just keep thinking about all these dying birds (birds are the worst!) Evidently the combination of books and alcohol is…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here. Here are some pictures of birds flying. Here are some old Dutch maps. Here are some new developments on wrong assumptions about Mars. Here are some practice babies.
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USAF and Medusa
The only problem with naming your new weapons system “Gorgon Stare” as the Air Force has done: Medusa’s lapidogenic vision was actually used against her. In fact, it was classic asymmetrical warfare: the vastly more powerful Gorgon’s Stare against mortal little Perseus and…
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Junk and the American Dialect Society
Ben Zimmer makes a case for “junk” to be the word of 2010. (via TheBookBench)
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Cell phones are increasingly cropping up in prisons, giving inmates the resources to organize strikes and play FarmVille. Travel websites Expedia and Orbitz are creating controversy by dropping American Airlines flights from search results. Tech bubble 2.0: Facebook is worth $50…