January 5, 2019
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Top 10 Design Flaws in the Human Body – Issue 24: Error – Nautilus
“T he Greeks were obsessed with the mathematically perfect body. But unfortunately for anyone chasing that ideal, we were designed not by Pygmalion, the mythical…”
January 4, 2019
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‘Pete the Groin Crusher’ has crushed 10,000 patients’ groins ‘without even a sweat’ | We The People
“Meet Pete Schiavo, a hemostasis tech at Pennsylvania Hospital who manually applies pressure to the femoral artery in patients’ groins, or the radial artery in…”
December 31, 2018
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One of my greatest regrets is that I ever found Louis C. K. funny.
December 28, 2018
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The Trouble With Designing a Book When Its Author is in Jail
“As a senior designer at Alfred A. Knopf, I feel incredibly lucky. Odds are, if I’m passed a manuscript to read, I will love it. And when I’m assigned a novel by…”
December 27, 2018
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Ready Player One (2018, Steven Spielberg)
I kind of liked the book while I was reading it, but I’ve grown less and less fond of it as time’s gone by. The book is problematic in many ways and I was willing to overlook that for the hit of nostalgia. The movie tries to address some of this but ultimately is just as empty a shell as the book. Eye candy yes, but I’m not that interested in eye candy right now.
December 25, 2018
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Roma (2018, Alfonso Cuarón)
Absolutely stunning. One of my top pics of the year. I’m a huge fan of Cuarón and he did not disappoint.
December 24, 2018
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It’s a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)
I’ve probably seen this over 25 times now. And I don’t tire of it.
December 22, 2018
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Bird Box (2018, Susan Bier)
People seem to be divided on this one. I enjoy “light horror” like this. It’s not really that scary and deals more with people’s ability to triumph over adversity. The ending is a bit hokey but hey, I’m okay with that. And I really like Sandra Bullock and I’m thankful when she’s in something that isn’t mindless schlock.
December 21, 2018
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White Christmas (1954, Michael Curtiz)
It is a long-standing tradition that I watch this lovely holiday music with the girls Christmas Eve. This year we did an early Christmas Eve as my youngest was off to Florida for the holidays, but it was still wonderful.
December 20, 2018
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Ghost Stories (2017, Jeremy Dyson, Andy Nyman)
An entertaining British indie flick. It’s been on my list for about a year and I finally managed to get to it. Not exactly a traditional Christmas tale though. 🙂
December 12, 2018
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“Every week, Spotify releases two-track EPs through its Spotify Singles program, recorded at various Spotify Studios locations around the world. It’s a foray…”
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How Amazon Prime will change the way our cities look – The Boston Globe
“After decades of banishing retail stores from residential neighborhoods, the nation’s real estate developers, city planners, and the general public finally came…”
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“MIND Headlines suggest that the genetic marks of trauma can be passed from one generation to the next. But the evidence, at least in humans, is circumstantial…”
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Widows, Black Panther, Suspiria, and the Year of the Elevated Genre Film
“Photo: Maya Robinson/Vulture and Photo by Fox Searchlight To refer to Steve McQueen’s Widows as “a heist movie” almost feels wrong. Sure, it has a heist in it;…”
December 9, 2018
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My Cousin Rachel (2017, Roger Michell)
Gothic romance/thriller with Rachel Weisz sounded like a good idea, but it didn’t really grab me as I’d hoped. Maybe too faithful to the original?
December 8, 2018
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Happy As Lazzaro (2018, Alice Rohrwacher)
This made me very happy. Other than the fact it was artsy, I didn’t know anything about this when I watched it, and that made it even better because I had no idea where it was going to go at any given moment.
December 1, 2018
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Memetic Tribes and Culture War 2.0 – Intellectual Explorers Club – Medium
““My friends, this election is about more than who gets what. It is about who we are. It is about what we believe, and what we stand for as Americans. There is a…”
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“Let me describe what I hear as I sit in a coffee shop writing this article. It’s late morning on a Saturday, between the breakfast and lunch rushes. People talk…”
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Criminal Incompetence | Inside Higher Ed
“About a year ago, one of my distant relatives found himself in trouble with the law, and not for the first time. He had allegedly stabbed somebody in the course…”
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Listening While Feminist: In Defense of “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” – Persephone Magazine
“Editor’s note: Please enjoy this featured post from our archives. I’m a pretty voracious consumer and critic of American popular culture. I’m one of those 3 rd…”
November 24, 2018
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The Pre-Internet Phenomenon of Boys Hiding Their Porn in the Woods – MEL Magazine
“I grew up in a New Jersey suburb called Basking Ridge , so named, we were told in elementary school, by the British Presbyterians who bought — cough — the land…”
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The Apophenic Machine — Real Life
“Image: Detail from The Test by David Delruelle. Think of a network graph. A simple one with just a few nodes and connecting lines spidering out. It makes…”
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The Most Misread Poem in America
“Everyone knows Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”—and almost everyone gets it wrong. Frost in 1913. From The Road Not Taken: Finding America in the Poem…”
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NASA Learns More About Interstellar Visitor ‘Oumuamua
“An artist’s concept of interstellar asteroid 1I/2017 U1 (‘Oumuamua) as it passed through the solar system after its discovery in October 2017. Observations of…”
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Why Standing Desks Are Overrated
“Supported by The New Health Care They’re not cures for anything, and standing is not exercise. Standing at a desk may offer some conveniences, but it’s not a…”
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“Introspective is the odd album out from Pet Shop Boys’ fabled “imperial phase”. It’s also, says David Bennun, the best thing they ever did Here’s a thing I…”
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The pop culture references that separate millennials from baby boomers
“Have you heard of Post Malone? If so, you probably aren’t a baby boomer. According to data collected by the polling company YouGov, only 17% of US baby boomers,…”
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In honour of director Nic Roeg who died today at 90.
November 21, 2018
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Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935, Roy Del Ruth, W.S. Van Dyke)
I get nostalgic for times long before I was born.
