Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
There should be some big black hole information coming in a couple hours. This week’s ephemera: Victorian teens, the legs of the Paris opera, and early 20th century bathing machines.…
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“He hit Send”
The Millions discusses successful uses of technology in current fiction and those books that we must suspend disbelief for their plot lines to function. The article’s most eloquent insights, however, come…
Ted Wilson’s 150th Review of the World
Next week The Rumpus will be publishing my 150th Ted Wilson Reviews the World! To celebrate, I’ve decided to allow you, the readers, to decide what I review next. Please…
Making Sense of a Complex World
“For all its erudition and analysis, The Golden Bough has for more than a century helped cement the idea that magic is inappropriate, wrongheaded thought. Yet what separates magic from religion or…
An Alternative To The Euro
The Wall Street Journal covers a group in the Catalonia region of Spain that, in response to the country’s current economic crisis, has created an alternative form of currency – the Eco. “The…
Breaking News: Poets don’t do it for the money
Charles Simic, a poet himself, tries to explain the method behind the madness for the frustrated folks who just don’t get the place of poets in a capitalist society: “To…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The winner of this year’s New Scientist Eureka photography prize is everyone. Today’s bad ass of the week: astronaut/antarctic doctor Scott Parazynski. Oh hey look, it’s all the mars landings…
“Neighbor Boy”
Rumpus contributor Conner Habib continues his Guys I Wanted To Fuck in High School series — which chronicles his frustrated coming of age in small-town Pennsylvania — with a new entry…
Faces of Addiction Revisited
Back in March, we published a post on Chris Arnade’s “Faces of Addiction” project, which explores the stories of addicts living in New York City through a combination of photography…
An Interview With Austin Kleon
Rumpus contributor Andrew David King interviews Austin Kleon at The Kenyon Review’s blog. Kleon has a knack for altering a text to make it his own, and talks at length about creative originality: “I…
Open Access to Research is not the same as Napster for Music
There may soon be an end to borrowing the JSTOR password of your friends in grad school with the rise of Open Access peer-reviewed work, thanks to the Budapest Open…
Twitter Can Help You Steer Clear Of Potty Mouths
The Atlantic covers a recent study that uses twitter to analyze where the United State’s most profanity prone individuals reside: “The Ukrainian-based web development firm Vertaline, aiming to answer that question, scanned tweets…