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Because I’ve got revisions due to one editor tomorrow, and to another later in the week, and so haven’t time for much else. This from Wislawa Szymborska: So long as that woman from the Rijksmuseum in painted quiet and concentration keeps pouring milk day after day the World hasn’t earned the world’s end. Continue reading A one sentence poem, from a Nobel Laureate…
This from a roundtable discussion between David Carr and Andrew Lack, moderated by the dean of Boston University’s College of Communications. Carr said: The dirty secret: journalism has always been horrible to get in; you always have to eat so much crap to find a place to stand. I waited tables for seven years, did writing on … Continue reading A very sad day for journalism
So I think we’re still quite a long ways off from sending humans to Mars. But apparently we’re not so far off that some people haven’t begun seriously thinking about it. Back in 2012, when Mars One, a non-profit dedicated to making interplanetary travel a reality, announced that it was accepting applicants for the first manned flight to Mars (room … Continue reading Meet the people who’ve volunteered to die on Mars…
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