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BREAKING NEWS

Ordinarily, I don’t post anything on Fridays. But my source in Cambodia just sent my this story, which, for men + more

“I was just blouse…browsing.”

Not sure about the somewhat, um…provocative photo accompanying this story, but there’s a lot of truth in what John Sturgis + more

Miscellany

Electronic Beowulf? For reals??? Guess my weekend’s settled, then. In the meantime, I’ll be re-reading Maryann Corbett’s masterful take on + more

Fight the Matriarchy!

“Younger women have closed the pay gap or are outpacing their male counterparts [emphasis mine] in nearly two dozen U.S. + more

Miscellany

I suppose it’s cheating, but I always skip ahead on stuff like this—because the number-one pick will tell me how + more

“I’m Susie. She’s me.”

This is like that Seinfeld episode where Elaine’s coworker mistakenly refers to her as “Susie,” and Elaine decides it’s easier + more

Math Is Hard

In addition to self-reflection, common decency, and basic infrastructure maintenance, we Americans are apparently really bad at demographic math. “When + more

Quote of the Day

Karl Ove Knausgaard: “The expectation of an answer runs so deep that it is presumably fundamentally human, the most characteristic + more

Pi Day Plus 1

Kind of cool that Archduke Eduard of Austria—Hungarian ambassador to the Holy See and the Sovereign Order of Malta—took to + more

“Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…”

I felt pretty good about the state of the world after reading this piece over at Axios this morning. No, + more

Old Man Yells at Clouds

Today is the 35th anniversary of the release of U2’s The Joshua Tree. I was in college studying music at + more

Happy IWD

So it’s International Women’s Day today. If you’re curious as to what it’s all about, I recommend not visiting the + more

Fight! Fight!

“Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics,” said Wallace Sayre, “because the stakes are so low.” + more

[sad trombone]

Color me shocked: Everything we in the West think we know about China’s famed Shaolin Temple dates all the way + more

Miscellany

Spokane: “We’ll try to get the city plowed in three days.” Montréal: “Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!” + more

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