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Business Beat

This just in: Borders is on the verge of closing all 399 of its stores. From the short article: “In + more

Brilliantly Creative or Gratuitously Offensive?

Depends on whether you have a Y chromosome, apparently. More here.

Happy Bastille Day!

We’re not exactly Francophiles here at the last word, preferring Philip Roth over Michel Houellebecq, Leszek Kolakowski over Jacques Derrida, + more

Nixon Now!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kniMjb–Ids&feature=youtu.be But wait—there’s more…

Fluid Dynamics, Fractal Geometry, and the Art of Jackson Pollock

If you thought Jackson Pollock’s painting technique was simply a matter of him “wiggling his hand in a sinusoidal way,” + more

Fun with Sterotypes

It’s hard to look at this without remembering John Derbyshire’s observation that “stereotypes are, in fact, merely one aspect of + more

The word of the day? Degree. D-E-G-R-E-E.

If you’re looking for a job, EWU has an opening for a GetLit! Festival Program Coordinator. You’ll need a bachelor’s + more

“You hear that, Mr. Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability.”

I’d have bet money that Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ on a Prayer” would easily destroy the competition, but apparently science has + more

Day Off

I spent last Friday checking out a small portion of the Columbia Plateau Trail with my son Jake. From the + more

Why Books Matter

Johann Hari has some thoughts on e-readers that we hadn’t considered in our June 14 post. He’s not opposed to + more

Save the Date

Fancy the good old days when the swastika didn‘t symbolize a murderous regime? Looking forward to joining others in welcoming + more

Frankenhorn!

This, my friends, is what happens when you leave a trombone player unsupervised for a couple of weeks. It’s probably + more

If You Have to Preface It with an “E,” It’s Not a Book

To this list of the five reasons why e-books “aren’t there yet,” I—AMD’s resident Luddite, apparently—would add a sixth: they’re + more

Monday Miscellany

“The only way to write is well,” said A. J.  Liebling, “and how you do it is your own damn + more

Right-Handers of the World, Unite!

A new study confirms what I’ve long suspected: left-handed people are no more likely to be gifted than their right-handed + more

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