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Five diseases on their way to worldwide eradication: at the New England Journal of Medicine.
Brilliant article in The Washingtonian about the challenges of curating the artifacts that people leave at The Wall in D.C.
I know rydra_wong will appreciate this discussion of pullups.
And the wails of "Aspect ratio!" from the Vidding community come even to the ears of Randall Munro...
You can apparently age a liquor for too long.
I am amused by this discussion regarding writing movies for the SciFi SyFy Channel.
Sherwood Smith has an interesting reflection on when the white fire strikes, or when creative efforts strike unexpected success.
Sly Wit has a wonderful writeup of a bunch of early screwball comedies.
The Nation has a thoughtful piece bringing together the question of paid work on the internet and the phenomenon of the Veronica Mars Kickstarter project.
Wow, the FBI says it knows who stole all those paintings from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990. Fascinating!
Sophia McDougall has a really chewy discussion about using "reality" as justification for all the rapes of women in your storytelling. She makes points I'd never seen before, quite cogently. (Possibly triggering for the explicit way sexual violence is discussed, however.)
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James Fallows on the ten-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq: Invading Iraq was an unforced, unnecessary decision to risk everything on a "war of choice" whose costs we are still paying.
Holy cow: one-third of the town of Woonsocket is on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (aka food stamps). I grew up in that area, and while Woonsocket wasn't known as a wealthy city, it wasn't anywhere near this desperate. Rebecka had read once that nobody starved to death in America, and she believed that was true. But she had also read that the average monthly SNAP benefit lasted a family 17 days, and she knew from personal experience the anxiety headaches that came at the end of every month, when their SNAP money had run out, their bank account was empty and she was left to ply Woonsocket's circuit of emergency church food pantries. Saint Agatha's on Mondays. All Saints's on Tuesdays. Saint Charles's on Thursdays, where the pantry opened at 10 a.m. but the line of regulars began forming at 6. (Long Form)
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.
Brilliant article in The Washingtonian about the challenges of curating the artifacts that people leave at The Wall in D.C.
I know rydra_wong will appreciate this discussion of pullups.
And the wails of "Aspect ratio!" from the Vidding community come even to the ears of Randall Munro...
You can apparently age a liquor for too long.
I am amused by this discussion regarding writing movies for the SciFi SyFy Channel.
Sherwood Smith has an interesting reflection on when the white fire strikes, or when creative efforts strike unexpected success.
Sly Wit has a wonderful writeup of a bunch of early screwball comedies.
The Nation has a thoughtful piece bringing together the question of paid work on the internet and the phenomenon of the Veronica Mars Kickstarter project.
Wow, the FBI says it knows who stole all those paintings from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990. Fascinating!
Sophia McDougall has a really chewy discussion about using "reality" as justification for all the rapes of women in your storytelling. She makes points I'd never seen before, quite cogently. (Possibly triggering for the explicit way sexual violence is discussed, however.)
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James Fallows on the ten-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq: Invading Iraq was an unforced, unnecessary decision to risk everything on a "war of choice" whose costs we are still paying.
Holy cow: one-third of the town of Woonsocket is on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (aka food stamps). I grew up in that area, and while Woonsocket wasn't known as a wealthy city, it wasn't anywhere near this desperate. Rebecka had read once that nobody starved to death in America, and she believed that was true. But she had also read that the average monthly SNAP benefit lasted a family 17 days, and she knew from personal experience the anxiety headaches that came at the end of every month, when their SNAP money had run out, their bank account was empty and she was left to ply Woonsocket's circuit of emergency church food pantries. Saint Agatha's on Mondays. All Saints's on Tuesdays. Saint Charles's on Thursdays, where the pantry opened at 10 a.m. but the line of regulars began forming at 6. (Long Form)
Crossposted from DW, where there are
comments; comment here or there.