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Psychopathic Presidents
PsychCentral covers a study that claims presidential candidates benefit from psychopathic behavior. It is purported that traits such as “fearless dominance” can help the Chief lead to their best abilities: “In fact, he noted that fearless dominance, linked to low social and physical apprehensiveness,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Oh hello, new monkey. Here are some soviet schoolbooks for you. It begins: scientists implant false short-term memory into rodents. Lightning-caused hallucinations are the worst kinds of hallucinations. As always, hurrah for bioluminescence.
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Support Anti-Bullying Organizations
You can help support Hold On Another Day and Project Believe In Me, two largely youth-run organizations that fight bullying, by contributing to the production of their compilation album, “Songs For Project Believe In Me.” Once the album is completed, the…
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Trouble In Nipple Paradise
The New Yorker recently posted a cartoon which features a naked, and post-coital, Adam and Eve to their Facebook page. What resulted was a kerfuffle between the magazine and social media site over their nudity regulation policies. Specifically, Facebook took issue…
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“The 13-Week Background Check”
At The Daily Beast, Andrew Sullivan links to last week’s essay by Patrick Walsh, “Guns and the American.” Thanks, Andrew, we love you back!
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“What They Came For Was To Kill Me”
Maybe if I’d participated more when I was a student, I’d have had a well formed outlook about who people really are, and I would have better grasped evil. I wouldn’t have committed as many errors as I have. I…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Way to have the best color in the world, tiny African berry. Maybe you’d like to have a bacteria portrait. Have I linked to this before? I am linking to it again: the cephalopoda! Worthless animals need love too. It…
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Thanks, The Millions
“As an NYC neophyte, it seemed to me that The Rumpus really does love New York. And from my vantage at the back of the crowd, enjoying some of my favorite authors (and decent drinks) while rubbing elbows with fellow…
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FUNNY WOMEN #84: An Open Letter to Thomas the Tank Engine
Let me be blunt: you’re a train with human attributes. Who are your parents? From what monstrous act were you conceived?
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The Violet Flowers Motel
The Violet Flowers Motel is located in Brantford, Ontario, and is considered by some to be home to drug dealing and prostitution; to others, the motel is the site of violent murders; some think it a nice place, just off…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This week in ephemera: monocle hats, Titanic ads, and the Dunkley Pramotor. In the future airplanes will fly in flocks. Meanwhile, today, grandmothers are giving birth to their own grandchildren. It is very important to acknowledge how adorable Curiosity is…
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Checking In With The Curiosity Rover
Using a camera on its arm, the Curiosity rover took a break from its Mars excursion to snap a self-portrait. Maggie Koerth-Baker documents the picture and explores how time passes on Earth versus how it passes on Mars, for Boing…