From the Archive: The Dark All Around Us
There is still light in the dark. This is the paradox that Little Bear has to accept in order to fall asleep.
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Posts Tagged: dinosaurs
Poetry as Archeology: Talking with Roy G. Guzmán
Roy G. Guzmán discusses their debut collection, CATRACHOS.
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The Planet Will Survive Us: A Conversation with Liz Breazeale
Liz Breazeale discusses her debut story collection, EXTINCTION EVENTS.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “In the Realm of Vanished Beasts”
Our experience has not been curated; we make of it what we want.
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Weekly Geekery
The plot thickens: literary fiction may not affect empathy after all. China’s solution to producing entrepreneurs? Science fiction. Kids of all races prefer black and Latinx teachers to whites. Science says: everything you learned about sexuality is wrong. Take back dinosaurs from the children!
...moreWhoever Has the Most Toys Wins
Randy Knol loves toy dinosaurs. Just how much does he love them? Jackson Landers reports for Smithsonian on this unique and massive collection.
...moreDinosaurs, Aliens, and Rappers
In its infinite wisdom, VICE has produced a show for the company’s TV channel, VICELAND, where Action Bronson and his friends smoke themselves into oblivion while they try to grapple with the immensity of history and the cosmos as communicated by cheeseball history documentaries. In the first episode of Traveling The Stars: Action Bronson & Friends, Schoolboy Q, Earl Sweatshirt, Alchemist, […]
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Armored in Cars and Driving Unseen
America is a beautiful country and it was beautiful before we got here. I’m not sure yet if we, the ancestral echo of colonizers, are a beautiful people. I often have doubts.
...moreWorld History Plot Holes?
A meteor killing off the dinosaurs was obviously a cop out because the author didn’t know where to take the story. This was just one of several responses on Reddit’s thread “Assume all of world history is a movie. What are the biggest plot holes?” that are good for a few chuckles. Grist for the […]
...moreBlow Your Mind with These Timelines
Using a series of timelines that represent increasingly large amounts of time, this blog post puts everything in perspective. Everything. It starts out simple—timelines of the last 24 hours, the last week, and so on—and works its way up through recorded history and human evolution from apes all the way to the existence of the universe. […]
...moreWelcome to the Clone Zone
Via Longreads, a Carl Zimmer story on his National Geographic blog about bringing lost species back from extinction. Dinosaurs are probably out of the question because their remains are too old to contain usable DNA, but according to “an expert on mammoth DNA at McMaster University in Ontario,” recreating woolly mammoths is “just a matter of finances now.” Of course, […]
...moreRadioactive Mongolian Dinosaurs and the People Who Love Them
Here are some subjects with which this (extremely long) New Yorker article concerns itself:
...moreMorning Coffee
Behold the (wildly impractical) coffee-powered car. Still more vintage matchbook covers (these ones have animals on them!) The Maldives have commissioned the building of several floating star-shaped islands. In related news: the Maldives evidently are totally awesome. The Maskatorium. Take a look inside a chinese toy factory. In the name of starting your Monday off […]
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Wednesdays can be hard, so its either this or reading the GG Allin Wikipedia page in its entirety. Literally the best thing NPR has ever been responsible for (and that includes every episode of Car Talk): dinosaurs vs snakes! Neatorama ponders one of the less talked about casualties of e-book business. Sometimes I really like […]
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Today is MLK Day so perhaps you’d like to kill time with first person Tetris? Behold the sleep suit! Alligators and birds breathe similarly! (psst… this is actually about dinosaurs, don’t tell anyone.) The history of the ampersand. “I’d really like to read an article about planets being created.” Well ok then.
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Welcome Back. Check out this sweet door. NY Times brings you the most commonly stolen books. In utero animals, kinda gross, kinda adorable! New Scientist looks back at a year of prehistoric monsters. Hella meta: Metafilter brings us a gallery of metaphotography.
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This is about as festive as I get, Australian Tesla Christmas tree! A very serious problem this Christmas season. These pictures were taken by creating a fake company. They are pretty rad. Astronaut catches satelite!
...moreScience Saturday
Space photography gets me every time. Maybe it’s because for the last six years I’ve lived in places where I’m lucky if I see a handful of stars because of all the light pollution, or maybe it’s all the Star Trek I’ve watched over the years, I don’t know, but photos of nebulas and sunspots […]
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OMG new dinosaur!!! (which helps solve evolutionary mysteries of the t-rex, or something, whatever). The History of Jobs in America (a graph). “On the asking of favors from established writers.” I’ve often wondered what the internet and digital technolgy has done to the experiencing of stumbling upon things you’ve forgotten about. Biscuit tin has an […]
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