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We can’t assume loving a boy band prevents a girl from thinking critically about her experiences and the experiences of others. Don’t assume teenagers can’t understand complex social theory. Pay attention to teenage girls; they just might change the world. Ferguson, One Direction, Tumblr, and Why You Need to Pay Attention to Teenage Girls —…
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Samuel Beckett Quad
Samuel Beckett Quad
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Crux, a sequel to Nexus – bioethical technothriller
mostlysignssomeportents: I loved Nexus, Ramez Naam’s 2012 debut novel about biohackers who produce a nano-based party drug that installs a networked computer inside your brain, and quickly turns into a war-on-drugs bioethics thriller about the free/open transhumanists and mirthless, ruthless drug enforcement agents. In Crux, the sequel that comes out today, Naam rips through 550+…
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Rosie Revere, Engineer: picture book about intergenerational makers
mostlysignssomeportents: Rosie Revere, Engineer is an absolutely wonderful kids’ picture book about a young girl who loves to invent, but finds herself crushed by the laughter of adults — until her great aunt Rose explains the relationship of failure, invention and perseverance. Written in delightful verse and filled with sneaky histories of women in aviation,…
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I know exactly where I was: sitting on a tattered couch in the living room of my rental house in Austin, Texas, 1989. The ninth issue of the experimental comics magazine RAW, edited by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly, had been released, and I’d bought it at a local comics shop and brought it home…
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magictransistor: The Texas Zephyr, 1940.
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Nalo Hopkinson’s Report from Midnight
mostlysignssomeportents: PM Press’s Outspoken Authors series is a wonderful line of chapbooks introducing the work of radical science fiction authors; each book is a short mix of essays, interviews and novellas and short-stories (they honored me by producing The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow, based on my work). The newest volume is Report from Midnight, by…
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tmagazine: David Freid for The New York Times Esteban Cortazar on Where to Eat, Sightsee and Shop in Cartagena See more here
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Touching Media
ourrisd: In the Center for Integrated Technologies (CIT), Kmee Kim MFA 16 DM (pictured above) and Yeahyun Shin 15 GD use a keyboard to control the fluttery movements of a two-dimensional bird attempting to cross a digital landscape filled with natural obstacles. Once the bird lands safely on the edge of the computer screen, a fictional email is fired…