I Taught Jonah Lehrer Every Word He Knows About Love

by Rikki Barrett

From time to time, The Awl…

Woman Best

Country Fucked

• “We don’t know a lot about how the government spies on us, but we know some things. We know the FBI has issued tens of thousands of ultra-secret National Security Letters to collect all sorts of data on people — we believe on millions of people — and has been abusing them to spy on cloud-computer…

18 Things To Do This Weekend (With 3 Chances To See Erykah Badu)

New York City, June 6, 2013

★★ The good spell left, with polite reluctance, taking its time but nevertheless steadily fading out of range…

Broken Social Scene, “Almost Crimes”

Why To Not Get Jane Austen Characters Wet

“We may laugh at Jane Austen and her heroines susceptibility to dampness. But the reality is we still cling this idea that going out without shoes or going to bed with wet hair means we could catch our death of cold. At the time no-one treated the cause…