Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
I’ve always had a teensy bit of penis envy. It’s not that I don’t value my chromosomes. Estrogen has its perks—amiright, ladies? And who wants to clutch their crotches in fear every time a baseball hurtles by? or deal with embarrassing teenage erections? Ew. But the lack of certain equipment makes my XX world more challenging. Stake…
It started out well enough. Tens of thousands of people gathered in Montreal’s Victoria Square, the heart of what’s left of its financial heft, waving banners, shouting slogans, hugging, smiling, high-fiving, smoking weed, all with the intent of sticking it to Quebec’s Liberal premier, Philippe Couillard, and his austerity budget. Thursday’s march was the apex…
Following a disappointing finish at last week’s Call of Duty Championships, Matthew “NaDeSHoT” Haag, one of the most recognizable individual eSports stars, is stepping down from his captaincy of top Call of Duty team OpTic gaming and leaving competitive video gaming, but only temporarily, he says. “I felt my passion to win wasn’t high enough to…
If you’re looking for advice about getting pitches accepted, there’s no better person to ask than the editor of the publication you want to write for. Sure, there are pitch templates. And other writers may be able to offer some counsel, but even they won’t know all the nuances of what a particular pub wants…
The Duke o’ Death is a unique, super-powerful car in Grand Theft Auto 5‘s single player mode that isn’t meant to be found or driven in Grand Theft Auto Online. Some folks found an exploit, however, that allowed them to illegally import it like a Nissan Skyline. They are being dealt with. Hilariously. Rather than just…
google_ad_section_start A memorial outside the Tulane University School of Law on February 2, 2015. Student Sara LaMont was allegedly shot … Late last November, as Tulane’s campus was winding down for Thanksgiving break, University President Michael Fitts sat on an airplane, reading through a sheaf of documents. In his hectic first year on the job,…
SHARING BUTTONS CONTENT OF THE POST GhostofAlyeska says he was “simply curious who Fox News’ science reporters are. I wanted to know what kind of scientific backgrounds they might have.” Here’s what he found: NPR’s science correspondents include: Shankar Vedantam, who has been honored by the American Public Health Association, is the author of The…
It was “rape week,” which is what law students across the country jokingly call the section of introductory criminal law class that covers sexual violence. Julia, a public defender who was then at George Washington University Law School, watched as her professor asked a male law student to answer questions from the perspective of a…
As we increasingly outsource our memories to devices, we may be forgetting the pleasures of imperfect recall. What if Marcel Proust had kept an Instagram account? What if he’d used a smartphone to snap a photo of every evocative morsel he’d ever eaten? Would he still have written “In Search of Lost Time,” his multivolume…
Nonfarm U.S. payrolls added only 126,000 jobs in March, more than 100,000 less than economists predicted. The U.S. economy created only half of the jobs that experts projected it would create in March, the weakest showing in payroll additions 15 months. The economy added 126,000 new nonfarm jobs last month, the smallest gain since December…