May 2012
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April 2012
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WatchOfficial NPR.org ant farm.
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Warren Buffett Says He's Got Prostate Cancer →
“To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway:
This is to let you know that I have been diagnosed with stage I prostate cancer”
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March 2012
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Fernando French Publishing: The return of Mark... →
Joy!
My dog-eared copy of My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist and I can hardly wait.
fernandofrench:
The New York Times:
There is a clip online of the Charlie Rose show from 1996, in which Rose invited three young novelists to talk about the future of American fiction… [the] panel comprised David Foster Wallace, promoting “Infinite Jest”; a young and anxious-looking Jonathan Franzen… and…
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Choire Sicha To Chris Hughes: Publishing Is Not... →
Choire Sicha dispenses sage advice to the new owner of TNR. Read the whole post. It’s not long. A taster:
Oftentimes the editor and publisher hold hands and walk in the town square, looking at all the other fun pieces of meat, but more often it’s argument and pushing and pulling and sometimes some wig-snatching. Don’t do this. (Also the editor-in-chief and publisher usually...
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February 2012
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Watch
I sure hope the place doesn’t close. Would be a serious bummer.
Christie’s Jamaican Patties, a staple of the Prospect Heights restaurant scene, might be closing its doors after more than 40 years of business. The owner, Paul Haye, reflects on what the possibility of closure means for him.
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January 2012
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“People who don’t own guns really need to think about this: it’s just darn fun to...”
– Paul Barrett, on taking shooting lessons. (via nprfreshair)
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Water-breaking research: Woman gives birth to a...
Why?
ivanoransky:
“Push!” Image copyright AJOG
It’s the obvious next step in the distinguished line of scientific inquiry that had author Kayt Sukel orgasm in an MRI by herself and scanned a couple having sex in such a device: German researchers have reported on what happens when a woman gives birth in an MRI.
The scientists were standing on the shoulders of giants, they note in their...
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From The Romney Victory Party In Iowa
Yesterday evening, as we wandered around the second-floor ballroom of the Hotel Fort Des Moines, the site of Romney’s quasi-victory party, we had a thought: how many people, we wondered, were working for the campaign with the sole motivation of catching the eye of one of Romney’s more attractive sons? Your blogger had taken many a college seminar with such motives—and for less attractive...
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Samuel L. Ipsum: Outstanding!
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Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That show’s called a pilot. Then they show that show to the people who make shows, and on the strength of that one show they decide if they’re going to make more shows. Some pilots get picked and become television programs. Some don’t, become nothing. She starred in one of the ones that became...