Aglitter in the net: reading, writing, genes, and leaving your desk
Category: Brains and minds
What caught my eye the last few days
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I write articles on science, medicine, nature, culture and other matters for the New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Slate, National Geographic, Scientific American Mind, and other publications, and am working on my fourth book, The Orchid and the Dandelion, which expands on my recent December 2009 Atlantic article. In August 2010, I'll be moving to London for a year to work on the book. I'll also serve as a senior fellow at City University London's MA science journalism program.
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The New York Review goes bloggy
Category: Art
The New York Review of Books, a longtime favorite of mine, has a blog stable offering everything from Iraq to Visconti.
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Locals & tourists living mashed all together
Category: Art
http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/sets/72157624209158632/detail/
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Gleanings: mayfly radar, tennis memoir, et alia
Category: Art
Mayflys on radar, Agassi's memoir, climate change doubters, psycho theory of mind, and passing the buck to your genes
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Scientific excuse for favorite snail jokes
Category: Art
A press release about Snails on methamphetamines works for me. The story is about memory. The jokes are about snails.
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Gleaned: Mechanical brides, lying about lying, traumatic growth, and bubba v bubba
Category: Art
At Biophemera, Jessica Palmer takes a look at Mechanical Brides of the Uncanny. Actually a couple look to me a...
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Werner Herzog asks: Where's Waldo?
Category: Books
Go now. Take the journey. There you will also find Herzog reading Curious George and Madeleine.
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Live at the Barbicon! Zebra finches play some Jimi
Category: Art
it doesn't get better than this. The part at about 1.45 where he gets the stick stuck in the strings: Really takes off there. <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/89Kz8Nxb-Bg&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/89Kz8Nxb-Bg&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object> © Extracts from Ariane Michel's film, Les Oiseaux de Céleste.
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Luscious: Architecture via film, the 3d & 7th arts. x
Category: Art
This is quite beautiful.
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Avatar smackdown!
Category: Art
I respectfully differ from Mr. Lehrer: In Avatar, Cameron has not deftly realized the potential of his medium; he has deftly exploited its crudest powers of visual seduction while leaving its full potential untapped.
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