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02.21.12Gleanings: February 21, 2012Spirit of a Racer in a Siberian Husky’s Blood Winnie’s breed does not have royal roots, but her lineage is fierce. It dates to what some consider the finest feat in dog-and-human history, a 1925 race to deliver lifesaving diphtheria serum to icebound Nome, Alaska. The event gripped the nation and later became an inspiration for the Iditarod race. Read the full story ...War of 1812 important because it kept out U.S. politics – and Snooki Americans see it as a war that produced ...
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02.15.12Gleanings: February 15, 2012Portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln Is Deemed a Hoax When he died less than a year after the painting’s public unveiling, an obituary in a Reading, Pa., newspaper noted that he “dabbled in oil paintings.” Apparently he dabbled more than anyone at the time realized. Read the full story ...Mind-Blowing Charts From the Senate's Income Inequality Hearing A major source of inequality in the tax code comes from how it treats investment income. Just ask Mitt Romney, who paid 13.9 percent of his income ...
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02.11.12Gleanings: February 11, 2012The Shirley Temple – Graham Greene Connection How a review that pointed out the creepiness of Shirley Temple movies led to "The Power and the Glory" Read the full story ...Cindy Sherman talks to Simon Schama Sherman is often mistakenly thought of as a one-note impresario of the grotesque, working in a range from neurosis to horror. For sure, the eloquent, impish person I’ve been talking to has always had a yen for the weird and the wondrous, but I tell her how struck I ...
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02.09.12Gleanings: February 9, 2012RIP John Christopher (Samuel Youd), author of the Tripod books Read the full story ...Shadow and Smoke by Charles Wright Live your life as though you were already dead Read the full story ...American writers alive today are expected to work as if Gertrude Stein never existed. Gertrude Stein, in her time, had that same problem. Read the full story ...How to Officially Forget ...
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02.08.12Gleanings: February 8, 2012Florence Green, Last World War I Veteran, Dies at 110 “It seems,” she remarked to The Independent last year, on the occasion of her 110th birthday, “like such a long time ago now.” Read the full story ...
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02.07.12Gleanings: February 7, 2012Rabbis oppose Minnesota marriage amendment "Throughout history the Jewish community has faced discrimination, and therefore we will not stand by while others are targeted." Read the full story ...The Downward Mobility of the American Middle Class But Romney and other Republicans have cause and effect backwards. The reason for the rise in benefits is Americans got clobbered in 2008 and many are still sinking. They and their families need whatever help they can get. Read the full story ...How Modern ...
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02.06.12Gleanings: February 6, 2012Two Deaths: A Poet And A Beetle : Krulwich Wonders... : NPR She'd wake up like we do, look out the window just like us, rummage through her days, but somehow what caught her attention — a grasshopper's hop, an infant's fingernails, plankton, a snowflake — when Wislawa Szymborska noticed something, she noticed it so well, her gaze reshaped the thing she saw, gave it a dignity, a vividness. Read the full story ...Why publishers should give away ebooks Buy the atoms, get the bits ...
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02.04.12Evening Harvest: February 4, 2012The Millions : I Greet You in the Middle of a Great Career: A Brief History of Blurbs It’s tempting to look back no further than the origins of the word “blurb,” coined in 1906 by children’s book author and civil disobedient Gelett Burgess. But blurbs, like bullshit, existed long before the term coined to describe them (“bullshit,” in case you were wondering, appeared in 1915) Read the full story ...Feet In Smoke: A Story About Electrified Near-Death Another of the nurses, when I asked ...
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01.31.12Evening Harvest: January 31, 2012Have Your Cake And Eat Its Package Maybe in the future you’ll be able to sip some juice, and eat the package. Read the full story ...Major undertakings. Read the full story ...No More E-Books Vs. Print Books Arguments, OK? We should worry less about how people get their books and — say it with me now! — just be glad that people are reading. Read the full story ...
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01.30.12Evening Harvest: January 30, 2012The Dilemma of Being a Cyborg - NYTimes.com This is the dilemma of being a cyborg: It's not just that everything we once committed to memory we now store externally on devices that crash or become obsolete or are rendered temporarily inaccessible due to lack of coverage. And it's not that we spend a lot of time storing, organizing, pruning and maintaining our access to it all. It's that we're collectively engaged in a mass conversion of what we used to call, variously, records, accounts, entries, archives, registers, collections, keepsakes, catalogs, testimonies and memories into, ...
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