Muckrakers, Inc.
...asked him what his college mascot was. “I went to Brooklyn College,” he said. “So, the gefilte fish.” Send your thoughts to [email protected] Whatever your politics—and mine, I admit, aren’t...
Beauty Blogosphere 3.9.12
...down? Pocket change: Shine.com breaks down exactly how much it costs to look like Jennifer Aniston (cloning not included). The grand total? $141,037. Girl in Front of Mirror, Pablo Picasso,...
Variations on a Theme: #Ferguson
...com. -Marshall "Eddie" Conway, Marshall Law For me, I found that from my experience in the [Black] Panther Party, that counter-intelligence program, federal government, local police departments, politicians: they do...
Assemblage Required
...clock projects a round harmony. Myles imagines an inchoate alternative: a necessarily incomplete temporality to come. Send your feedback and responses to [email protected]. Behind the lectern, Myles achieves the same...
Power Loss
...retrofitted bug-out vehicles, wired off-the-grid electrical systems, and hauled thousands of pounds of rocks for avalanche booby traps. The dating website for survivalists, Survivalistsingles.com, boasts over 5000 members. Almost three-quarters...
The Work of Art in the Age of Xerox Reproduction
...medicine and provides an accessible and inclusive platform for writing about women on the web. For more articles, information on pitching, and to subscribe to our newsletter, visit ladyscience.com....
On Modeling as Modern-Day Physiognomy
...link to AskMen.com. , of course, but our faces also telegraph something to the world just by dint of how they’re formed, even though—sorry, all readers who believe in physiognomy—that...
African Poetry: Introduction
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com I received a review copy of Eight New Generation African Poets: Tatu, a collection of chapbooks selected and edited by Kwame Dawes and...
Talking Like a “Princess”: What Speaking Machines Say About Human Biases
...Digital Youth with Disabilities (MIT Press, 2014) and Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality (MIT Press, 2017). She can be found on Twitter @merylalper and online at merylalper.com....
Sunday Reading
...Academic Job Market CUNY Declares War on Rebel Faculty Painkiller Post What Happened to Shulamith Firestone Telegraph Avenue http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/09/how-coal-brought-us-democracy-and-oil-ended-it-lessons-from-the-new-book-carbon-democracy.html http://www.nextnewdeal.net/rortybomb/romney-will-solve-crisis-exact-same-gop-plan-2008-2006-2004 Debt Resistors' Operations Manual The Worst Teacher in Chicago No,...
Hot or Not?
...disaster is when faced with an object, good, or commodity that can never be taken for granted but always is. This water is deliciously hot. By sheer randomness I have...
Playing With Death
...focus. True, Real Lives is an outlier, a worthy exception in a world of shooters and sports games. But similar systems are finding their way into commercial titles like X-Com:...
Emily Warren Roebling, the Woman Who Built New York
...took over the role of Chief Engineer, and three years later, he fell ill and became completely dependent on Emily. Washington often referred to her as his “strong tower.” Through...
Gotta Have a Code
...Donnie would live forever). When I asked for his email, he quickly replied, ‘It's donnell loves fran at [...] dot com.' Real recognizes real, as he used to say....
Twilight of the Mentors
Or how I learned to stop worrying and love my gatekeeper
The Union Jack and the Southern Cross
...emphatically, "Politics should stay out of sport." An All Blacks marketing campaign by Adidas in 2008. The website, www.thisisnotajersey.com, gave fans the opportunity to have their name literally etched onto...