Category: words

  • npr: Comic books from several discrete decades get mashed up in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, while swaths of real estate — uninhabited swaths, we’re repeatedly assured — just get pulped. But no text is quoted more directly than The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller’s influential 1986 tale of an over-the-hill Batman coming out…

  • npr: Comic books from several discrete decades get mashed up in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, while swaths of real estate — uninhabited swaths, we’re repeatedly assured — just get pulped. But no text is quoted more directly than The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller’s influential 1986 tale of an over-the-hill Batman coming out…

  • I am going to be rather hard-nosed and say that if you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps you should not be writing what you’re writing. And if this lack of motivation is a constant problem, perhaps writing is not your forte. I mean, what is the problem?…

  • I am going to be rather hard-nosed and say that if you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps you should not be writing what you’re writing. And if this lack of motivation is a constant problem, perhaps writing is not your forte. I mean, what is the problem?…

  • superheroesincolor: Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes  by Adilifu Nama “Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and sweeping cultural trends in American politics and pop culture, which reveals how black superheroes are not disposable pop products, but rather a fascinating racial phenomenon through which futuristic expressions and fantastic visions…

  • superheroesincolor: Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes  by Adilifu Nama “Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and sweeping cultural trends in American politics and pop culture, which reveals how black superheroes are not disposable pop products, but rather a fascinating racial phenomenon through which futuristic expressions and fantastic visions…

  • What you think about Millennials says a lot about you, nothing about them

    mostlysignssomeportents: Adam “Ruins Everything” Conover was asked to give a keynote to a conference on marketing to millennials, and he brought the house down with an amazing speech about the absurdity of generalizations about generations, and about how all of the generalizations hurled at millennials have been slimed over every other generation, too. Moreover, all…

  • What you think about Millennials says a lot about you, nothing about them

    mostlysignssomeportents: Adam “Ruins Everything” Conover was asked to give a keynote to a conference on marketing to millennials, and he brought the house down with an amazing speech about the absurdity of generalizations about generations, and about how all of the generalizations hurled at millennials have been slimed over every other generation, too. Moreover, all…

  • cinoh: Harvard researchers develop a new origami-inspired material that changes shape. Borrowing bits from the Hoberman Sphere and the origami-based concept of snapology, where interlocking strips of paper snap together to create rigid structures, Overvelde and his team at Harvard have created what they call a metamaterial: an expandable structure that can be used on…

  • cinoh: Harvard researchers develop a new origami-inspired material that changes shape. Borrowing bits from the Hoberman Sphere and the origami-based concept of snapology, where interlocking strips of paper snap together to create rigid structures, Overvelde and his team at Harvard have created what they call a metamaterial: an expandable structure that can be used on…