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A semi-weekly list of stuff worth reading
What the Steamship and the Landline Can Tell Us About the Decline of the Private Car – Emily Badger – The Atlantic Cities The car is already dead.
How to double science research What if your advisor didn’t spend 70% of her time chasing/administering grants?
I kind of hate TED talks I do hate TED talks
cydwoq – stadium
Following Frida
That mono-brow wouldn’t work today.
Girls wax the in-betweens, the ups and
downs, smooth, smooth. Sometimes,
the greenery around the hacienda
itches so much we sneeze and tickle,
create unnecessary frowns, a slippage.
There’s always Dr. Death, of course,
his bright smile, that happy mouth
inviting us to pout and make kiss shapes.
Kiss, kiss! Kiss, kiss! he urges. His short needle
makes cushions of our worries. Little prick here,
another there, there, there,
it’s all right darlings, growing old
needn’t hurt so badly.
The hairs remind us, marching to link brow
to brow, shadowing our lips.
We want to be Frida, earnest with hair,
mocking Dr. Death’s short needle
before it punctures our flesh.
Old, old! we shout the words he hates,
loose and old, not tight and old!
Senses, raging, in need of colour
as we behold ourselves, mirror-wise,
the women we always were,
just older, looser, still there.
by Mary O’Donnell
from The Ark Builders
Arc Publications, Todmorden, 2009
via 3QD
A semi-weekly list of stuff worth reading
We’re All Bystanders to the Sandberg-Mayer Mommy Wars “But I’m sick of every conversation about women and work subtly morphing into a conversation about corporate-track moms.”
A Morning Person After All? A Return to Normal With Ritalin Who are you without the illness?
The children: Why a generation is putting itself on the line for the climate Because we don’t want everything to be terrible forever
A semi-weekly list of stuff worth reading
How the Italians Do it: Furniture design for 400 square feet This furniture makes me happy
Trying Ritalin for Migraine Prevention… and Loving It A lot of preventative migraine meds do a shit job of actually preventing migraines and have an annoying propensity to make you stupid & tired. At least with Ritalin you get a bit more done in the few hours you make it out of bed.
This bizarre-looking bike went 127 miles per hour
Data calls the model’s bluff Or, stop overfitting.
How the Dutch do it: Slide to the Train How to avoid getting behind the slow walkers on the way to the train
11 Wonderfully Violent Soviet Work Safety Posters
Some people think of mosses as weeds or eyesores in a lawn Those people are wrong