Holing Up
...wearing the best outfit: a pretty ruby dress with pockets. These illustrations in particular are perhaps in dialogue with Burton’s life as a professional dancer and aquarium keeper, because nobody...
Extremists in The Mainstream
...biographical glimpses of professional politicians and analysts from across the spectrum, with a street-heavy field methodology, involving detailed descriptions of uncountable protests and riots, both right-wing and left. For Blumenthal,...
A Game Is Being Beaten
...infrastructure in your car like a fly in a trap, flicking against the game’s invisible boundaries and awaiting the end. The only other choice is to shut the game off....
A Predictive Policing Syllabus
How the past becomes the future
Thoughts on a Word: Glamour (Part II)
... * * * Virginia Postrel, author, columnist, and speaker who is currently writing a book about glamour, to be published by The Free Press in early 2013. She explores...
How to Win Tinder
...of pleasure and pain, a violent passage beyond the bounds of identity, meaning, and law.” One would think that’s the point of Tinder, the way to play — just enjoy...
Beauty Blogosphere 6.7.13
...the fact that there are eye-tracking firms that track people's eye movement]. Tipoff: Bloomberg Businessweek breaks down exactly what the Professional Beauty Association is lobbying for tax-wise: Basically, the...
Not for Teacher
...a question society prefers not to ask out loud: How can we trust someone with so much yet pay them so little? Now that women hold half of American professional...
Reputation scores and hedged friendship
...recently, reputation-management companies like Reputation.com are eager to help with this, offering to monitor mentions of you and develop mop-up strategies for problems. They also hope in the future to...
no sex, no rimming, no happy ending, no electricity, no blood sports. just lamecore stuff.
...of some help to you. Best regards, Rosa Kerr (This completes the text of The Truth about Rosa Kerr. You are encouraged to consult other materials similar to this.)...
Posers
...her interview with editor Tiana Reid. They talk about sexism in the poetry scene, the tediousness of professionalism, radical self-consciousness, and self-consciousness about being radical. And in her latest advice...
Scenes Resembling Civil War
...in the anti-nuclear movement’s militant wing. The West German coalition government of liberal and conservative parties viewed industrial infrastructure as integral to Cold War policy and began building nuclear power...
Dens of Bureaucracy
...would complement them by eliminating smaller businesses from the trade and enshrining the professional authority of licensed manufacturers. While the Harrison Act of 1914 initially lacked teeth, by the 1920s...
Beauty Blogosphere 4.6.12
...situation: The latest Turkish shampoo spokesman: Adolf Hitler. Boycott: A major Norwegian retail chain, VITA, stops carrying Ahava products, joining a Japanese distributor in boycotting the company based in the...
How Ought We Die?
...bed surrounded by professional strangers in white coats. It was a communal process where mourning as well as contemplation could be done together. Later versions of the Ars Moriendi changed...
The Science of Life as Art and Dissent
...silence any potential for radicalization, reform, or protest. In many ways, Pitt’s government was informed by Enlightenment principles, which sought to free intellectual culture from the tyranny of nature, superstition,...