Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Sin Cities
A team of researchers at Kansas State mapped the seven deadly sins. This one shows lust, according to registered STD cases. Red is deadly. Green is heavenly. Find the rest here at WIRED.
Saturday, September 26, 2009
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
A find by explorers of the world's largest garbage collection, a cluster of waste twice the size of Texas that floats in the northern Pacific. More images and commentary here.
Friday, September 18, 2009
Women and Happiness
Gallup researcher Marcus Buckingham breaks down the trends in aging and happiness for women. It's not looking good.
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
For the Love of Sentences
A sentence is like a tune. A memorable sentence gives its emotion a melodic shape. You want to hear it again, say it—in a way, to hum it to yourself. You desire, if only in the sound studio of your imagination, to repeat the physical experience of that sentence. That craving, emotional and intellectual but beginning in the body with a certain gesture of sound, is near the heart of poetry.
--Robert Pinsky, on sentences and George Herbert, who wrote them well
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