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Pimp My Novel: Two Households, Both Alike in Dignity "The sample sizes aren't quite identical yet, folks (232 votes this round compared to 342 last round), but currently 54% of those of you who responded own an e-reader, as opposed to only 42% in June 2010. Granted, this is an entirely…
Charlie Rose - An interview with David Foster Wallace A 1997 interview, when Wallace was promoting A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, covering a wide range of topics. (tags: video writing books literature movies humanities academia society culture) In Which Your Host Witnesses a High-…
How to Get Tenure at Almost Every Other Research University | Cosmic Variance | Discover Magazine A useful counterpoint to Sean's post about tenure at top-tier research universities. (tags: academia jobs blogs science physics cosmic-variance) A Lament for Diana Wynne Jones « Bookselling with…
Journalism has always been communal Top Google queries about scientists: should we be surprised? Getting more out of scientific content Telling tales... The Science Reader: A Crowd-Sourced Profile Journalism and the public understanding of how science works. A suggested remedy. So what do the…