January 2011
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Brain Sex Test by BBC →
Not that kind of sex, you dirty slut/manwhore. ;) On this loosely “scientific” but completely fun test, I scored a big fat zero, a completely androgynous brain. It has six parts, but each section takes only a few minutes. You’ll need a metric ruler or else you’ll have to convert inches to millimeters. No, they don’t ask you measure that. Anyways, I’m curious to...
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Law Schools Now Require Applicants To Honestly... →
NEW YORK—A growing number of law schools have begun requiring applicants to specify in writing whether they do, in fact, have some desire to attend law school, or are just using it as a predictable last resort. “We want to separate those who actually see themselves becoming attorneys from those who just want to put off joining the adult world for another three years,” Fordham Law...
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“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, not...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lapham's Quarterly: Every Book on an LQ Editor's... →
laphamsquarterly:
Yes, taking a picture would have been easier, but a list is much more servicey. Have I read all of these books? No. Have I read most of them? Yes, I think I you could say that. These books are on my desk because I’ve planned to use, tried to use, or just won’t give up on using them in one of our…
First finding The Economist here, now discovering that Lapham’s...
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“Two fonts walk into a bar. Bartender says: “We don’t serve your type...”
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oranc:
Bach: French Suite, for keyboard No. 2 in...
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“We don’t know why the Tucson killer did what he did. If he is like Sirhan, we’ll...”
– James Fallows (via technipol)
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Pronunciation patterns of place →
bobulate:
A professional linguist presents an addictive map of American English Dialects with over 600 sound-samples:
Some people collect stamps. Others collect coins. I collect dialects. …. For many of the cities or towns on this map, you can listen to an audio or video sample of speech of a native (more specifically, someone who was raised there, though not necessarily born there, and whose...
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Where is Art Now? →
If you’ve ever asked yourself,
excerpts from Rick Poynor’s essay, reprinted in the Design Observer Group website from issue 4 of Elephant magazine:
Does it matter whether art exists?
I don’t mean art in the ordinary sense of “visual forms of expression.” This kind of visual output clearly exists in abundance…But what about “art” in the more particular sense of something that...
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