A Guy Named Frank
...them as well as by the people who sell them. As he puts it, “trying to count out singles and quarters is extra pressure that a professional just doesn’t need.”...
Hi Haters!
...me! predominates over Look at this! In Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl, the French ultra-left theory collective Tiqqun describes this sort of self-promotion through cool as being...
The Streets of Spain
...is a determination to show people are happy to keep working, that the infrastructure still functions, the trains run on time, and capital perseveres in the face of narcissistic union...
Beauty Blogosphere 5.17.13
...are proving to be in it for the long-term in North America and Europe. Is it sustainable in markets with developing internet infrastructure and a lower per capita income? ...
Beauty Blogosphere 8.24.12
...elaborated on his tootsies I think this gets a pass. So: Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, gets pedicures. Ta-da! More important: Cory Booker's people must be pretty phenomenal. How many...
Cell Culture and Science Culture
...book, The Astonishment of Experience, explores how citizen scientists tackled the observational problems of psychology and challenged the boundaries of professionalization around the turn of the 20th century. More information...
Snake Plissken’s Letter to Sallie Mae Student Loan Services
Snake Plissken, reluctant protagonist of Escape from New York, explains to Sallie Mae why he will not be repaying any of his accumulated debt and why they can burn in hell.
Snake Plissken's Letter to Sallie Mae Student Loan Services
...not in relation to having borrowed it. Sure, it’s the origin story, the compounding root of the matter, and it can make one sick with worry. It can make one...
How Can You Watch That Stuff?
...sport itself. Fighters are not so much professional athletes as individuals who have entered into an ironclad moral contract to sacrifice themselves for whatever the UFC deems maximum entertainment. This...
Matchmaking
A good online-dating profile strategy, like a strong brand, turns a suspect into a prospect, and a prospect into a buyer
Organized Plunder
In the absence of the tax dollars city governments rely on, American are now funding themselves by fining the poor instead of taxing the rich.
The Victorian Women Whose Writing Popularized Watching Birds Instead of Wearing Them
...| Public Domain) Neltje Blanchan’s 1897 Bird Neighbors featured photographic color plates, one of the first books to do so , created by the Nature Study Publishing Company based on...
Nicole Kristal, Writer and Bisexual Advocate, Los Angeles
...at LGBT festivals internationally. (You can rent it for $2 at BuskFilms.com , and I suggest you do exactly that.) Author, yes—her (hilarious) book, The Bisexual’s Guide to the Universe...
Editors’ Note, Vol. 62: Posers
Posers get glory while incurring little to no pain. Isn't that the dream?
Info Wars
...of counterterrorism objectives in Afghanistan, the United States government infuses modern digital infrastructure with old-school counterinsurgency tactics. In February 2012, for instance, the State Department posted a grants notice for...
Osmic Frequencies
...public popularity and the hostility of the community of scientists who study smell. In “How to be Antiscientific,” Steven Shapin, a historian and philosopher of science, describes how science closes...