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An excellent article at the NY Times that combines good writing, detective work, music and video to tell the story of how John Jeremiah Sullivan tracked down the identity of a couple of otherwise unknown blues artists - Elvie Thomas and Geeshie Wiley.
Read the story here: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/13/magazine/blues.html?_r=0
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A well written article on the ethics of pawnbrokers. Having had to frequent these places in my financially chequered past, I can assure you the picture he paints is probably on the kind side...noteworthy how he started off in Calgary, and ended up becoming a professor of philosophy...
Link: http://laphamsquarterly.org/swindle-fraud/we-buy-broken-gold
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Now this is sexy. Note that it may require you to login and verify your age:
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Pretty girls. Books. And...how could you go wrong?
This is why I like girls than can read.
Find the rest of the set here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQuT-Xfyk3o - 10 Girls/Women, 10 Readings.
Part of the Bibliothecaphilia exhibition at Mass MoCA. If you're in Massachusetts it would be the thing to check out.
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An interesting map of the US, based on what residents of each state are most likely to be searching for. In Alaska it's milk, in Tennessee it's a DNA test, in Florida it's an abortion...
View an embiggened version of the map and article here: http://www.fixr.com/blog/2015/02/27/cost-obsessions-us-map/
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The Collected Aphorisms of Aaron Haspel, via Boing Boing.
A few favorites:
"It is often only slightly more trouble to do a thing well than to do it badly."
"If you want to kill your marriage, talk about it."
"No-brainer, n. An idea that is extremely persuasive provided that you don't think about it."
"I might have had a proper education if I had not been forced to spend so much time in school."
"He who can, writes books. He who cannot, writes books for children."