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
...founder and chairman of eBay, has a personal wealth estimated at $8.5 billion, and has said that he is prepared to put $250 million into the project “for starters.” Compare...
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)
...all the more in a narrative that sees disasters as the occasion where social lines are crossed and communities pull together, all evidence before and after them to the contrary....
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
...online-dating sites—OkCupid! and Match.com—but also captures many people’s ambivalence toward the prospects they find on such sites: “okay” matches (if they’re lucky). In the game, players try to assemble a...
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...
Beauty Blogosphere 5.24.13
...in her cover-story interview with Allure makes it spike in lookups at Merriam-Webster.com. Sabbath Sharpie: Perhaps inspired by the recent case of an Orthodox Jewish woman suing Lancôme over the...
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...
Sarah Leonard Speaks at Occupy the Page
...the Indypendent, Sarah Leonard of DISSENT and The New Inquiry, and Nathan Schneider of Waging Nonviolence and occupywriters.com . Theodore Kerr of 12th StreetJournal, moderates. 12th Street is the award-winning...
Thank You for Shopping: Customer Loyalty Programs
...for…? Very important Beauty? Why, thankyou) if you accrue enough “points”. You get access to a VIB-only section of Sephora.com discussion forums; you get to attend private Sephora events. You...