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In Love Online
A little snapshot of love stories from around the web. One of my all-time favorite love stories told at the Moth podcast: Mike Destefano recalling his love for Franny in Franny’s Last Ride. Calvin Trillin, who always wrote about his…
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The Revolution Has Begun
Dear writers and readers, Finally! The inaugural post for the new Rumpus column Funny Women can be read here. This is just the beginning. You, the writers and readers, will be generating the content each week. I’ll keep the Funny…
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“We Got Off on Being Puppeteers.”
Tamler Sommers of The Believer recently interviewed Dr. Phil Zimbardo about his infamous Stanford Prison Experiment. The 1971 experiment randomly assigned intelligent, normal, healthy young men to the role of prisoner or guard. What began as an investigation into the…
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Morning Coffee
Giant rat discovered in secret volcano. The new species of rat doesn’t have a name yet, if anyone has any ideas. Slate on new bubble technologies. Man accidentally fires a cannon through neighbor’s house. Buddha shaped pears are a pretty…
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HAPPY LABOR DAY: AN OXYMORON
Labor Day. The Rodney Dangerfield of holidays. Nobody knows why it’s treated like the runt of the celebration litter. Maybe it has to something to do with our biological clocks being stuck on elementary school time. Deep down in our…
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Morning Coffee: Labor Day Edition
The season is drawing to a close and with it we bring you our favorite MC links of the summer. Life takes you inside a fish hospital (my heart breaks everytime I see that goldfish taking its shot). Atlas Obscura…
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Putin Scares Pants Off Condé Nast, Gawker Saves Day
Did you know that GQ recently published a groundbreaking story which questions “the official line” on the 1999 bombings — supposedly committed by Chechen rebels — that Vladimir Putin used as a springboard to put himself in charge of Russia…
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
When I came across this first link, my immediate reaction was “we need an anthology of the sonnet?” Apparently we do. I’ll be checking this one out. Rebecca Wolff can smell the youth on a manuscript. Robert Lee Brewer explains…
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A Suggestion to all Marketers
I understand the difficulties that marketers face. They have to make a splash in an over-saturated media market, and it’s difficult to divert peoples’ attention away from not just their day-to-day, but away from all the other things that command…
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A Brief History of Economics
Two weeks in a row now I’m doing a blog post on the upcoming feature story in the NY Times Magazine. This won’t become a habit–they get plenty of attention on their own. But it’s such a good article on…
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Science Saturday
It’s time to release my inner geek. Okay, not so inner. Behold the cannibal galaxy! Triangulum, your day is coming! The nonprofit Solar CITIES is installing solar power systems in the poorest parts of Cairo. Global warming science is complex,…