The Questionably Healthy Habits of Highly Creative People
Do you work better during the morning or the evening? With a shot of espresso or a mug of green tea? An intriguing little Slate series documents the work habits of…
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Is The Great Gatsby Worth Seeing?
Want to see the new film version of The Great Gatsby but afraid it won’t live up to the book? At The Millions, five English professors pass judgment on the success…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Venezuela is out of toilet paper. Behold the Alternative Limb Project. If I’m reading this correctly, I could really use some electrical brain shocks. And now you’re midcentury design for…
Yo Mama So Old She’s a Scandinavian Root Word
These etymological origins of words related to insults are so strange and wonderful that some of them almost seem made up. For example, it seems there used to be enough people…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Watch out for the solar flare you guys. On plate tectonics and the origins of monkeys vs apes. Children of the 1980s build the city of the future. We all…
Is Neuroscience the Future of the Humanities?
As science and technology dominate our lives more and more each day, those of us in the humanities find ourselves increasingly on the defensive. One way to demonstrate the humanities’…
The Death of Chick-Lit?
Are the days of chick lit finally over? The Atlantic seems to think so. There’s a new genre in town, and it’s called farm-lit. Novels about women who abandon their…
Brooklyn Public Library’s Hurricane Sandy Oral History Project
The Brooklyn Public Library is inviting all Brooklyn residents to participate in its Hurricane Sandy Oral History Project. News articles and statistics don’t equate to personal narratives recounting the emotional…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The time has come for vintage Swedish movie posters. Perhaps there is a submerged continent off the coast of Brazil. I imagine we’ve all wondered what New York City would…
The Next Letter for Kids: Kristen Kittscher
The next Letter for Kids, going out tomorrow, is from Kristen Kittscher! Kristen is the author of The Wig in the Window and The Tiara on the Terrace, the first two books in…
Props from a Fellow Funny Woman
Poet, memoirist, and Beat figure Hettie Jones is, like most of us, unhappy about sexism in the publishing industry. In a blog post on the subject, she discusses VIDA statistics,…