Open Books: The E-Reader Reads You
...popular e-reader, the Kindle, connects silently and wirelessly with the Amazon.com mothership, communications over which the user has no control short of shutting off its wireless function, the main means...
Beauty Blogosphere 9.14.12
...consumer trends for 2012, as per trendwatching.com. We shoulda seen this coming, really. Hostess with the leastest: For the season premiere of The Talk, cohosts and guests went makeup-free. I'm...
Not for You
...In 2015, Avengers 2, Jurassic World and Star Wars brought a slight rebound, but that year’s sales remained below 2013’s numbers. Nonetheless, theater owners’ and movie companies’ profits keep going...
Plants, Domesticity, and the Female Poisoner
...independent research includes topics in science and literature, especially overlap between the two. She blogs at The Virtuoso Blog. Contact Afton on Twitter @TheVirtuosoBlog or through email at [email protected]...
Speaking in Tongues
...slow Internet, I logged into chat rooms under names like Amber and Vanessa, pretending I was 18 and blonde and a model-slash-actress. There, with a little help from Literotica.com, I...
Beauty Blogosphere 6.22.12
...thought I had everyone fooled with my sensible beige sandals with contour support and comfort soles, but it turns out they reveal me to be a 36-year-old middle-class lady who...
Women Scribes: The Technologists of the Middle Ages
...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....
IVAN: The Reconstruction of Narcissism
...http://thenewinquiry.com/app/uploads/2014/02/Ivan-Trailer-.mp4 IVAN: The Reconstruction of Narcissism, a debut composition by POWERHOUSE, explores the notion of using architecture and design as a vehicle for self-transformation by holding the design...
Charity Assets
...vision of “market-based efforts that catalyze economic and social change,” GlobalGiving adopted a “hybrid model” involving a parallel for-profit company, ManyFutures, that provided a technology platform to support its charitable...
DNA-based prediction of Nietzsche’s voice
...Computational Modeling of Phonatory Dynamics in a Tubular Three-dimensional Model of the Human Larynx. Acoustical Society of America, 2012 Sep; 132(3): 1602–1613. doi:10.1121/1.4740485 [7] Li X, Cui R, Sun L,...
Then and Now and Never (Part 2)
...is this sense of human scale that most misfires in the Then and Now sliders, with an effect that would be comic in a different scenario, as giants stride up...
FIC.THE.SKY
Livestream fictioning from the Fierce Festival in Birmingham, United Kingdom
You Drank Some Darkness
...http://thenewinquiry.com/app/uploads/2014/09/Teju-Cole-You-Drank-Some-Darkness.mp3 Stand here and look out at the steady fact of the sea. Like a closed door, it gives you little. Behind you is the museum, and...
Dating Games
...efficiency. (And if you’re on a date through OkCupid’s new “Crazy Blind Date” app—which Jezebel’s Katie J.M. Baker recently called the “Worst Idea Ever”—then the pressure to perform is compounded...
Black Friday, Or the Circulation of Commodities
...Alibaba.com, sometimes known as "the Chinese eBay," connects shoppers looking to purchase commodities in bulk directly with manufacturers from across the world. The site encompasses more or less every...
You Are Too Much
...overlyattachedgirlfriend.com The Overly Attached Girlfriend's desire isn't oriented towards sex or even a boyfriend; both are just means to maximal intensity of feeling This is the age of...