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Science Saturday
Radioactive mercury splits unevenly during fission. It’s a completely new form of asymmetric fission. This picture of the Nile at night from the International Space Station is nothing short of stunning. There are three times as many stars in the…
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Saturday Morning Links
So, December. So you’re starting a PAC and you need a name for it, something bland and generic and completely de-emphasizing your plan to replace all the caffeinated coffee in the world with decaf, you evil bastard. Here’s a name…
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Cagle’s Appeal
Rumpus cartoonist Susie Cagle has a new weekly editorial cartoon at the SF Appeal. Her first comic ran today, check it out.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
No aliens, but arsenic life is pretty cool right? Wikileaks! The Musical! Everyone loves a good french sculpture exhibition now and then. And we’ll end the week with a pair of links from our buddies at Bibliodyssey: depending on if…
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The Millions “A Year In Reading”
Don’t miss it! The Millions “A Year In Reading” is underway with contributions from John Banville and Lionel Shriver, among others.
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Fire In My Belly
For me, having been inculcated with pictures of a bloody, naked man nailed to a tree since I was five, any discussion of obscenity, homo-eroticism or sexual violence begins with Jesus, or at least the Jesus that hangs in churches,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Truthfully I’m still pretty distracted. Gerry Canavan has kindly brought us the image of the day. Dear anyone, please buy me a Swiss Army axe. Thanks. Here is some NASA art for you. Who doesn’t love it when little girls…
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The Gray Side of The Moon
I heard Bucky Sinister read this poem at the Quiet Lightning reading series and it was so beautiful I asked him if we could publish it here. – Stephen Elliott
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
How am I supposed to concentrate when there might be aliens? Here is some art or something. No but seriously you guys, aliens. Everything else seems ungodly boring. A L I E N S
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Steaming Mug
So a decade ago, hack advertisers needed to make everything cyber-this and i-that. Fifty years ago, everyone was selling a Space-whatsit, and a hundred years ago it was all radium-whatever. Radium Razor Blades! (I’m serious.) But let’s say it’s 1848: now…
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Chats With Random Men #11: Amit
Singer Alina Simone chats with random men on her Facebook page — and occasionally fights with random men … meet Amit.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Scientists have figured out how to make your DNA un-age itself (maybe). 1800s coffee packaging. Let’s talk about crazy-ass Brazilian sculptures and the bugs that inspire them. Children drawing the monsters of H.P. Lovecraft. Here is your food clothing photography…