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“I’ve got to be puffing and sipping.”

– Truman Capote (via theparisreview)

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It was the first book to teach women about sex,... →

This is a fascinating look at how the evolution of society has forced an iconic, once progressive book to change. But has it changed enough and is is still relevant? What makes the text still an important educational tool? “In the beginning, it was about educating women about what they didn’t know,” says Kiki Zeldes, the book’s senior editor. “But it’s become more about helping women sift...

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We are all about bats today. Here’s some video of Brazilian bats looking for dinner.

Sep 29th

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Twitter Confirms That Late Day Slump →

Sociologists at Cornell University studied updates from millions of Twitter users, analyzing tweets on an hourly and daily basis. After breakfast, moods from Dubuque to Dubai start going downhill. The sociologists analyzed more than half a million public updates from 2.4 million Twitter users in 84 countries over a two-year period. They divided the updates into groups by hour of the day and...

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theatlanticvideo: How NASA’s Kepler Plans to Find Another Earth Kepler is NASA’s first mission capable of finding habitable planets orbiting other stars in our galaxy. This overview from NASA explains how Kepler works, and why it matters.

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