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Journals do open access like gramma does email
An elderly relative once sent me a card in the mail letting me know that she’d sent me an email. When we try to use a new tool without understanding the purpose of the tool, we can end up looking silly. Which is fine if you’re my Great Aunt Dorene forwarding me every email that’s […]
While you’re waiting for the bus April 13, 2013
Stuff worth reading CoutureSQD launches its ‘Netflix for clothing’ service (exclusive) I really like this business model. Also Mary Wu is kind of awesome. Magnolia season has begun I don’t know which botany professors enjoy more: tricking students, or complaining about students for being tricked. Either way, botany profs are the best ever. when engineers […]
While you’re waiting for the bus April 10, 2013
Stuff worth reading Death of a Revolutionary Firestone was incredible Flying worst class: Air travel is about to get bumpier and barfier Ways climate change will make your life worse, flying edition When does human life begin? A botanist discusses the new law in Kansas A Massacre By Any Other Name: From Ft. Hood to Wounded Knee War is […]
While you’re waiting for the bus April 6, 2013
Stuff worth reading Arkansas town in lockdown after oil spill nightmare But Keystone XL will be different! Mainstream green is still too white Separating environmental justice from environmentalism is wrong and counterproductive. Humans aren’t separate from or above ecosystems: we’re part of them Rising global temps not keeping pace with soaring greenhouse-gas emissions This would […]
Advice for migraines getting you down
Even when everything in your life is as close to perfect as it can get, migraines will make you feel like it is all nothing. On such occasions, I recommend going to bed, immediately, and making a very fancy breakfast when you wake up.
While you’re waiting for the bus March 30, 2013
Stuff worth reading What to tell a partner who wants you to remove your pubic hair Shared for the spectacular snub line: “he should be so lucky to pick one of your pubic hairs out of his teeth.” Also for the good advice
Saturday poem
If you forget me Pablo Neruda, trans. Ochoa Pérez Isaac I want you to know one thing. You know what it is like: if I look at the crystal moon, the red branch of the quiet autumn through my window, if I touch you by the fire the impalpable ashes or the shriveled firewood, everything draws […]