Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Very important science news: orange cups make your hot chocolate taste better. The Atlantic takes you inside Chernobyl’s abandoned hospital (which is cool). Everyone loves WWI propaganda posters. Perhaps you…
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Copy Editors Are Your Friends
Proper copy editing includes examining the focus, dredging the main point up from the tenth paragraph to make it more prominent. Proper copy editing addresses the language: rooting out cliches,…
The Dish Ran Away With the Andrew Sullivan Readers
Andrew Sullivan is lighting out on his own, hoping his blog The Dish will make enough money to stay afloat without the assistance of the Daily Beast or any other publication.…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The universe is a bummer: maybe going to mars will give astronauts Alzheimer’s. Perhaps being overweight is good for you (no it is absolutely is not). It is tragic when…
“Our Education”
I think that most of us believe that time doesn’t really exist outside of the school. Or at least we act like it does not. This is to say, we…
Listening Love
Pitchfork wrote about our recently concluded Real Man Adventures series, which featured eight original songs inspired by chapters in T Cooper’s new memoir-cum-literary scrapbook. Thanks, Pitchfork, we love you back! If you missed…
On Being A “Vile, Loathsome, Despicable Pig”
Via Verge‘s best-of-2012 list, here’s an essay by Meghan Daum about the lakes of vitriol that make up so many online comments sections. She compares the unfavorable reaction to a somewhat…
What’s the Deal With Seinfeld’s Dedication to His Craft?
The ’90s were so saturated with Jerry Seinfeld’s brand of humor that it’s easy to think of him as hacky. He’s not.
Dan Weiss’s Morning Cofffee
And what, pray tell, does 2013 hold in store for outer space? It’s always exciting to consider what should have just become public domain. Did I already link to these…
Free Books Still Rad
Rumpus interviewee/contributor Scott Hutchins on the importance of libraries: “I’m from a town with no bookstore, so there would have been no option for books except for the library. The…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
It’s good to be back, I hope you’ve all made it safely to this side of the temporal divide. 2012 in science and bad science. Meanwhile, what are the guiding…
Goodreads Did Really Well in 2012
Goodreads has an end-of-the-year infographic that can only be described as nifty. Visually represented stats range from the book with the most popular quote of 2012 (The Fault in Our…