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You Need More Sleep
“Now, new research is showing that sleep also seems to reorganize memories, picking out the emotional details and reconfiguring the memories to help you produce new and creative ideas, according to the authors of an article in Current Directions in…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Save the date, Poetry Book Club Members–Monday January 3, 9:00 p.m. EST, 6:00 p.m. PST–for the chat with Aimee Nezhukumatathil about her book Lucky Fish. You’ll get the link and the password in your email as the date approaches. Alizah…
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Artists Respond to Smithsonian Censorship
This is what happens when an art museum caves in to political pressure–artists and foundations decide to walk away from you. The Smithsonian Institution pulled a an AIDS-themed video from an exhibition after pressure from professional blowhard William Donohue and…
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Announcing the January Pick for The Rumpus Poetry Book Club
January’s pick for the Rumpus Poetry Book Club is A Beautiful Name for a Girl by Kirsten Kaschock. It’s from Ahsahta Press, and it’s Kaschock’s second collection of poems. For a sample of her work, follow me below the fold.
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Science Saturday
Watching high speed laser welding with an x-ray camera–what part of that description isn’t awesome? Solving the Pioneer anomaly. Voyager is approaching the boundaries of the solar system. Lunar eclipse! Science Friday has the viewing tips. Ancient Maya temples may…
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Saturday Morning Links
I’ve been flirting with one for days, ever since the end of the semester, but I think today I actually have a full-blown hangover. Take it easy on me, would you? If this works–and I haven’t tried it out personally…
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Ted Wilson’s Holiday Gift
“Too many Rudolphs Glowing noses terrify Wake up in a sweat” Our very own Ted Wilson is offering free holiday haikus to anyone who emails him at iamtedwilson AT gmail.com. We highly recommend it.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The Big Picture’s annual year in review make the years worth living. Map collages! Item: Chinese scientists want you to walk through walls. This is what it looks like when you combine a years worth of Vogue covers into one.…
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Poor Malchik
In Tokyo, at the Shibuya Station, there is a statue of a dog named Hachiko who would come and greet his master every day after week, even after his master died.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #35: Alex Behr in Conversation with Terri Manning
In the late 1980s, Terri Manning and her sister, Barbara, lived in one of San Francisco’s painted ladies near Golden Gate Park. This lady, a huge, rambling Victorian with peeling paint, opened its door to touring bands, local musicians, artists, and…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Flavorwire kindly directs to the best scientific images of 2010. Did you read the New Yorker profile on Shigeru Miyamoto? I did. . . Here are some very simple illustrations of complex scientific concepts for you. We all want to…