A Field Guide To Military Urbanism
“I mean, when you’re forced to smuggle, by sheer necessity of survival, due to forces completely outside of your own control, when the power to decide your own destiny has been taken from you (as a...
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Space photography gets me every time. Maybe it’s because for the last six years I’ve lived in places where I’m lucky if I see a handful of stars because of all the light pollution, or maybe it’s all...
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Morning Coffee
Important science news: the universe is delicious!Need a good hideout? Al Capone’s is for sale.The American Girl homeless doll is surprisingly expensive. Or maybe not surprisingly, I don’t even know...
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I just finished this really interesting article on bionics at National Geographic, but for some reason, the link has gone wonky on me. Head over to the main page and find it–it’s worth the...
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Morning Coffee
Today’s theme is things that are good.These appeal to me on at least three levels: 1980′s subway photography.The top fonts of 2009.“The primary goal is to change the attitude towards living on a...
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Morning Coffee
Clothing for the discerning clergyman.Sometimes people are really into typefaces but also have too much free time; those people do things like this.Hella sweet pictures of astronauts and such (warning:...
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Morning Coffee
Department of The Japanese are Better Than Us: polar bear clouds!Also on the Asian whimsy front, in Thailand you can have food served to you by a samurai robot.Gerry Canavan has kindly pointed us...
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Actually, according to this Atlantic blog post, in space, you can’t really cry at all.Astronauts can, certainly, tear up—they’re human, after all. But in zero gravity, the tears themselves can’t flow...
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THE BINS: Space Parents
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Space sex!The science of being twitterpated.iPads can’t fix everything.The religion of technology.Need to police the police? There’s an app for that.Related Posts:Weekly GeekeryWeekly GeekeryWeekly...
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Grumbling about technology.Reddit users can report harassment. Will it help?The New York Times and Buzzfeed published directly to Facebook, just like your mom.Is technology destroying men?Pooping in...
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The Saturday Rumpus Review of The Martian
Ridley Scott’s latest release, The Martian, is a spectacularly filmed, well-acted, technologically astute movie. Unfortunately, its technophilia almost takes over. You will spend a little over two...
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Just Some Jokes
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Nietzsche the Space Man
In twenty years the physicist has been obliged on three or four occasions to rebuild his reason from scratch and, intellectually speaking, refashion his life. It is essentially this shift of reason...
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This week, we have two stories of time machines and space stations, but mostly of people who clean up messes. Amber Sparks’s second collection of short stories, The Unfinished World, published on...
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Tinfoil Astronaut
My mother made me an astronaut helmet out of tinfoil, and cardboard, and a leftover pipe from when she fixed the leaky toilet. I got a supermarket brand “NASA Shuttle and Launch Pad Play Set” that...
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Syria, or, “Day in the Life”
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This Week in Books: Generation Space: A Love Story
Welcome to This Week in Books, where we highlight books just released by small and independent presses. Books have always been a symbol for and means of spreading knowledge and wisdom, and they are an...
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My Weekend with the Harakakukua
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This Week in Essays
Over at The Walrus, Fatima Syed looks to build space in popular culture for depictions of different types of Muslims. With a sinking feeling, Kristen Arnett looks inside herself and finds nothing but...
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