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The Electric Literature blog has a post by Nora Fussner on a new iPad app of The Waste Land, which includes the poem read by Eliot, Ted Hug...

Languagehat has a post which includes a quotation from the Autobiography of the Protopope Avvakum. "Protopope" in Cyrillic: прото...

Tribrachidium was a strange genus of ediacara which has been found in Russian, Ukraine, and Australia.  Tribrachidium has been described as ...

The humour, while probably more easily appreciated by seasoned birdwatchers, isn't restricted to in jokes. [Does Jonathan Franzen know a...

There's an interview of Ryan North at Smithsonian.com . Why dinosaurs? And while the T rex . is a natural, why two other, more obscure d...

Interview with Mitzi Akaha in Axiom Magazine .

How far should revolutionary thinking be allowed to go? Everything Luxemburg touched she pushed to an extreme – jusqu’à outrance , ‘to the ...

1986 was not the year I discovered Roland Barthes. That had been at least a year earlier, and (allowing for the tricks of memory) possibly ...

Noam Lupu and Jonas Pontussen (PDF) have a piece on the relationship between inequality and distribution in the new American Political Scie...