Recent Articles
February 4, 2012
“Rainbow Potato Day” Has a Nice Ring 0
by Nick Moran
Gaia, Pale Blue Dot, Lonely Planet, etc… It’s time for a new addition to Earth’s list of aliases: the rainbow potato. A new map of our planet’s gravity field reveals the variations in gravitational pull depending on your geographic location.
February 4, 2012
In Case You Were Curious 0
by Nick Moran
Baratunde Thurston, stand-up comedian and director of digital for The Onion, stops by NPR’s Fresh Air to read from his new memoir and satirical self-help book How to Be Black.
February 4, 2012
Facebook’s Hype 0
by Nick Moran
The Facebook IPO was this week’s biggest story. The social media giant, which boasts 800 million members, is seeking a $75-$100 billion market valuation. But hold your horses, investors. A lot of that optimism could be empty hype. After all, look at the site’s requested valuation as a percentage of its 2011 revenue, and compare [...]
February 4, 2012
Fre-books 0
by Nick Moran
Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows (which was a favorite of Jonathan Safran Foer), floats a new idea to publishers: give away your e-books for free!
February 3, 2012
Dyer on Unusual Histories 0
by C. Max Magee
Ahead of the forthcoming release of Zona, Geoff Dyer rounds up five unusual histories for The Browser.
February 3, 2012
My Twins: On First Children and First Novels 2
by Ramona Ausubel
I just had twins. One of them is human — fingers and toes, eyes and ears. The other is a hardcover — 346 pages long, eight years in the making — my first novel. These are very different creatures, yet they were both made somewhere inside me, gestating over months or years.
