November 2011
“Ms. magazine was a crucial publication, and I read every issue of it up until...”
– How the Blogosphere Has Transformed the Feminist Conversation
by Emily Nussbaum in NYMag
October 2011
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WatchWhere Did Halloween Come From?
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Roger Ebert on Fellini (who died this day in 1993) →
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Cool, Ghoulish Tech Gadgets →
American Routes: Saints and Spirits →
npr:
americanroutes:
Listen to this week’s show!
Explore the spiritual realm of New Orleans and South Louisiana through words and music on this weekend of All Souls’ and All Saints’. Our very own, Ninth-ward, R&B buddha, Fats Domino, drops by and unveils his personal spirituality. Visit the tomb of Voodoo…
Do you listen to American Routes? It’s great! —Wright
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Kristen Wiig joins The Comedian
-saturdaynightlive:
Kristen Wiig has reportedly joined the cast of Sean Penn’s upcoming directorial feature, “The Comedian”. Wiig will star alongside legendary thespian Robert De Niro in the film, which tells of a has-been comic sentenced to community service for headbutting a heckler. While there, he falls in love with Harmony, a woman who turns his life upside down. While it has yet to be...
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42 images of Brooklynites at home in the late '70s →
The 70s were fearless
Watchsciencecenter:
Hilarious segment on The Daily Show - “Science: What’s it up to?”
This is a great parody of the sort of criticism science gets from the anti-intellectual right in this country. Aasif Mandvi does a great job of getting his interviewees to agree to ridiculous incriminating statements. This one was my favorite:
Aasif: What’s the point of teaching children facts if it’s just going...
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creepout of the day...seriously →
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The Neuroses of New York →
As long as the terms “neurotic,” or “high strung,” or “nervous breakdown” have been around, they have been inextricably linked with this city. As Evelyn Waugh put it, “There is [a] neurosis in the air which inhabitants mistake for energy.”
New York Observer sticks to the bigger neuroses, and looks at how they’ve changed in the 75 years since Karen Horney published her original list.
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Why Digital Talent Doesn’t Want To Work At Your... →
rachelinbrooklyn:
Digital talent won’t want to work at your company if:
Every element of their work will be pored over by multiple layers of bureaucracy. Even if that’s how the rest of the company operates, it can’t spill into the digital department. In a technology environment, new products and businesses spring up daily and a new endeavor can go from conception to launch in a matter of...
“Fox added she and Henderson were afraid viewers would not understand the...”
– The Badger Herald has the scoop on Feminist Ryan Gosling. (via markcoatney)
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Horror Stories From Space →
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Nigerian King Sues Shell for $1 Billion →
A Nigerian tribal king filed a $1 billion lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell at the federal court in Detroit, Michigan last week.
The US Supreme Court plans to consider the lawsuit in what the AFP called “a landmark case that could make companies liable for torture or genocide committed overseas.”
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TV Fact-Checker: Inoculating "House" Against Bad... →
jtotheizzoe:
“There are different levels of ways to link two things together. If somebody has a twitching finger and you want to get to his brain, you might say he’s having a seizure in a certain part of his brain that might be linked to a tumor up there. That’s a well-known clinical relationship, though. If no such relationship exists then what I generally do is fall back on mechanistic...
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WatchIt’s National Pumpkin Day!
So, here’s a look at the wonderful, wonderful gourd-like squash.
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“…the troubled 27-year-old suffered “death by misadventure”
– Alcohol Killed Amy Winehouse, Coroner Rules
This coroner is a poet.
(via jennyjennybobenny)
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WatchArchaeologists have uncovered more buildings that made up a slave village where Frederick Douglass once lived. Jorge Ribas visits the dig.
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