Condolences
It was with great sadness that we heard the news this morning of the passing of Emily Rapp’s son Ronan. Ronan suffered from Tay-Sachs, a genetic disease caused by the…
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Books Through Time
Writers might be interested in yesterday’s installment of Dinosaur Comics, about the development of books through history. If talking clip-art dinosaurs can’t figure it out, what hope do the rest of us…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here is everything you need to know about tonight’s asteroid flyby. Update: weaver bird’s nests are pretty neat. The Big Picture takes you inside Sun City, Arizona. Average age: 72.4.…
A 20th Century Pied Piper of sorts
Fade in: small, American Midwest Town. Melton Barker walks into town, film kit in tow. So it went in at least 40 towns across the country, starting in the 1930s…
Monomania: Why Writing All By Your Lonesome Kind of Sucks
Over at the New York Times “Draft” blog, Benjamin Nugent, author of Good Kids, breaks down the romantic notion that locking yourself away in the “primeval hush of the Midwest”…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Happy whatever. Sometimes you just need to look at the best dogs. Hello there, new owl. Any occasion is a good occasion to revisit the most impressive crossword puzzle of…
What’s The Deal With Massive Open Online Courses?
MOOC’s are a word for forgetting that universities have never grown without being planted, for trusting that just as students can teach themselves, universities will magically grow themselves, too. In…
Why the Civil War Is Still Worth Talking About
Byliner’s list of spectacular nonfiction articles of 2012 highlights two complementary essays from the Atlantic‘s Civil War issue. First, Yoni Appelbaum uses a hyperrealistic “cyclotron” painting of the Battle of Gettysburg…
Whale: 1685, Kitten: 1
Ever thought, “I know Herman Melville was talking about a whale but how much, really, did he talk about a whale?” This cool page will answer your question with its graphical representation…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I am pretty sure the internet was invented so I could look at things that fit perfectly into other things. Fare thee well world’s scariest airport. Not to get all…
Books Elissa Bassist Thinks You Should Read
The Equals Record asks Funny Women editor (and writer/motherfucker) Elissa Bassist what she’s reading offline. She responds with a whole shelf’s worth of books, from David Foster Wallace’s masterpiece Infinite Jest…