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Bulletin Board The 2012 South Dakota Festival of Books kicks off Friday. You can download a program or register for the 10th anniversary event. Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes Your brain on pseudoscience: the rise of popular neurobollocks (“The dazzling real achievements of brain research are routinely pressed into service for questions they were […] Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes Politico-psychopathology (“Not that politicians and pundits are mentally ill in a clinical sense, but politics in American national life today can only be presented in pathological form. Politics no longer involves the public use of reason; it is instead a matter of psychopathology…”) (via) On Cursing (“There […] Bulletin Board This is a sort of double edition as travel before and during the Labor Day weekend kept me from posting last Saturday. Thus, a couple items are a bit older than usual. Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes The village where people have dementia – and fun (“It’s not the sort of slow, […] Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes Dear Mr. Akin, I Want You to Imagine… (“Did you honestly believe that rape sperm is different than love sperm, that some mysterious religious process occurs and rape sperm self-destructs due to its evil content?”) (via) Bookish Linkage Where do dead books go? (via) Sam Sacks is against […] Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes Prog Spring (“The death of real rock ‘n’ roll began one morning in 1964, at the Organ Center in the southern England city of Portsmouth.”) What some people call idleness is often the best investment (“The cult of busyness extends far beyond grumpy bosses and line managers. It […] |
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