October 2010
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Brother from the Richmond Planet →
It played out like a John Ford Western—the hero packing a pair of pistols and walking the streets of the dusty town in search of justice and the man who’d threatened his life. But instead of John Wayne in the lead role, the protagonist in this real-life case was a courageous, twenty-two-year-old, African-American firebrand named John Mitchell Jr. As editor and publisher of the African-American...
Jane Austen's famous prose may not be hers after... →
Amongst Austen’s grammatical misdemeanours was an inability to master the ‘i before e’ rule. Her manuscripts are littered with distant ‘veiws’ and characters who ‘recieve’ guests.
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“Usagists once scorned ovation (for “applause”) because the word “really” meant a...”
– Jan Freeman, I could care less
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“I apologize for calling gubernatorial candidate Kristin Davis a hooker in a...”
– New York Post columnist John Podhoretz
Watch Peter Root’s Ephemicropolis
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“The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the...”
– Walt Whitman (via oceanofmind)
“The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the...”
– Walt Whitman (via oceanofmind)
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WatchFrom a coffee bean, Times regular 12 point, to a carbon atom
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Philippines, Norway vaults play key roles in rice... →
In a greenhouse near the Philippine capital, botanists grow strange grasses that bear tiny seeds which are promptly flown to a doomsday vault under Norway’s Arctic permafrost.
The Norway deliveries are just the newest facet of a decades-old effort by more than 100 countries to save the world’s many varieties of rice which might otherwise be lost.
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WatchPowers of Ten, Flipbook
Virtual Water: The hidden costs
Virtual water
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“We have a system of education that is modeled on the interest of industrialism...”
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Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
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WatchWanderlust: Designer Stefan Sagmeister on finding happiness and design inspiration
