What’s Invisible At Harvard: A Conversation

by S.J. Culver and Kaya Williams

Tobias Wolff And The First Novels That Writers Wish Were Forgotten

Out of pique or posturing authors occasionally disparage their early work. Saul Bellow referred to his pre-Augie output, Dangling Man and The Victim, as his Masters and PhD, respectively; “I find them plaintive…

If You Can’t Stay Indoors…

So, this is happening:

The National Weather Service has issued an Excessive Heat…

Pablo Dylan, “Top Of The World”

The Most Hilarious Clarence Thomas Opinionating Yet

Horrible ‘Times’ Spam Farm Gets What It Deserves

About.com, the content farm owned by the Times and one of the worst things on the Internet, looks like it’s finally in trouble, due in large part to Google taking action against the Garbagenet. (These outfits depend on search results.) And also…

Local Man is Irritated: In Defense of Tallahassee

“No person or entity maintaining, owning, or operating an establishment dealing in alcoholic beverages shall encourage, allow or permit any person to appear nude or to expose to public view his or her genitals, pubic area, vulva, anus, or any…

The Science Of Glassing

British Science takes on glassing!

Engineers at the University of Leicester have for the first time created a way of measuring how much force is used during a stabbing using a broken bottle. The advance is expected to have significant implications for legal…

Science Explains Kanye West

“Our research didn’t find a huge effect, and we certainly aren’t claiming that all creative people are insufferably arrogant but, on average, people with a lot of creative accomplishments were less humble and modest.”
 — University of North Carolina psychology professor Paul…

So Long, Space!

Today the brave and wasteful decades of the American space program as we have known it come crunching to a halt. From its beginnings as wildly adventurous jaunts to its ghastly end as porters and bellboys to the International Space Station, 30 years and 135 space shuttle missions later, we are…

Is It Friday Yet?

Is it Friday yet?