science
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Weekly Geekery
The Apple watch says you aren’t good enough. The tension between sex and science. Are rage clicks a thing of the past? What the Internet needs is a vigilante. Schools still have an equal access problem. When it comes to…
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Neanderthals in 3D
The Public Domain Review examines “the masterpiece” that is Marcellin Boule’s L’Homme Fossile de La Chapelle-aux-Saints, a book published in 1911 that includes early 3D images.
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How one troll came to repent for his sins. Speaking of trolls, they probably all have bad hearts. There is real symbiosis between science and fiction. There is also symbiosis between medicine and literature. Why we shouldn’t fetishize “makers.” Awkward online?…
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Writing Helps Writers
Powerful writing might be just as moving for the writer as for the reader. New research is demonstrating that the old advice about writing through your problems might actually be based in science. Researchers in various studies are gauging how…
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Weekly Geekery
Science knows exactly how you feel right now. How the good enough get better. Intimacy and vulnerability on the Internet. Why women don’t comment online. Internet philistines are why we can’t have nice things.
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Weekly Geekery
Building an academic audience. The technology of your childhood. Academic innovation and the blame game. Pain and your brain and gain. When Reddit and journalism collide.
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The Rumpus Interview with Jeff VanderMeer
Jeff VanderMeer discusses the environment, his childhood, and the conception and conclusion of his Southern Reach Trilogy.
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Word of the Day: Vaticinate
(v.); to prophesy or foretell the future; from the Latin vati– (“seer”) + -cin-, combining form of canere (“to sing, prophesy”) “Louisiana, Louisiana, They’re tryin’ to wash us away. They’re tryin’ to wash us away.” —Randy Newman, from “Louisiana 1927.”…
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Weekly Geekery
The final frontier of stories. What the government did with content will shock and delight you. The science of your confident stupidity. Twitfic is just getting started. Slate hosted a talk about Amazon, books, literature and the future. Here is…
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Weekly Geekery
The Internet hates women. Emily Gould’s e-book start up. The rich and powerful find revenge. What’s worse: Your thoughts or getting shocked? Twitter is still better for conversations than dinner with your family.
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From Metaphor to Consciousness
Neuroscientists are examining metaphors and finding that they’re essential to language. Modern brain scanning has allowed scientists to look at brain activity as the brain employs metaphors from language. What has been found is that the brain interprets metaphors literally.…
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The Unteachable Dark
Writers Rivka Galchen and Zoë Heller, over at The New York Times, discuss the question that will never go away: can writing be taught? They raise valid points about whether teaching writing is fundamentally different from teaching something like science and the…