Curiosities
June 17, 2013
The Mingle, Part III 0
by Nick Moran
Mark your calendars, New Yorkers. The third installment of Ryan Chapman and Jason Diamond’s inimitable networking shindigs will take place on Thursday, July 25th at the Tribeca Grand Hotel. Come for the craic and the free booze, but stay for the balloons.
June 17, 2013
Kids These Days 0
by Nick Moran
“The complexity of texts students are being assigned to read has declined by about three grade levels over the past 100 years,” says Eric Stickney, the educational research director for Renaissance Learning.
June 17, 2013
Quantum Invisibility Cloaks: For When Ordinary Invisibility Cloaks Won’t Cut It 0
by Nick Moran
This might come in handy if you’re trying to escape a bad review, or even avoid hanging out with your family. A team of physicists has developed a theory for “how to cloak a region of space from the quantum world, thereby shielding it from reality itself.” Take that, Harry Potter.
June 17, 2013
Why Are Writers Paid So Little, and Programmers Paid So Much? 0
by Nick Moran
“And so despite my esteem for the high challenge of writing, for the reach of the writerly life, it’s not something anyone actually wants me to do. The American mind has made that very clear, it has said: ‘Be a specialised something — fill your head with the zeitgeist, with the technical — and we’ll [...]
June 17, 2013
Tom Hanks Joins Dave Eggers Adaptation 0
by Nick Moran
Tom Hanks and Cloud Atlas director Tom Tykwer are reuniting for a cinematic adaptation of Dave Eggers’s Hologram for the King. Previously Walkmen lead singer Hamilton Leithauser named Eggers’s book in his most recent Year in Reading post.
June 16, 2013
Write a Turtle Story, Win a Turtle Diary 1
by Nick Moran
NYRB Classics just reissued Russell Hoban’s Turtle Diary, and in honor of that occasion Levi Stahl is giving away a free copy. All you have to do is write “the best turtle story” in his comments section before June 20th. Are you up to the task?