October 2011
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Ed Shevlin Polishes His Irish While Collecting the... →
AGE 51.
WHERE HE’S FROM Lifelong resident of the Rockaways, Queens.
WHO HE IS Biker; sanitation man; speaker of Irish, a language that Unesco has declared to be “definitely endangered” with just 44,000 speakers.
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When You’re Strange →
Should we consider Jim Morrison, rock’s Bozo Dionysus, a real poet?
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“His hug is his beer in a frosted mug.”
– Patsy Cline
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“As it is, the film has turned a subtle, intricate and beautiful work of art into...”
– The atrocity of Spielberg’s Tintin
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“I used to tell stories to Mary, stories of my childhood and immigrant...”
– Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project
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Hemingway Reports Spain →
On the front in the Spanish Civil War
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THE Q&A: DAVID ENSMINGER, PUNK HISTORIAN →
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THE LUCK OF THE IRISH →
Flann O’Brien, not so lucky. Editors of the world, quit being lazy and using that stupid headline.
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Haiti Doesn't Need Your Old T-Shirt →
The West can (and should) stop dumping its hand-me-downs on the developing world.
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The Last Of London's Darkrooms →
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“If we convert energy into metric tons of coal equivalent, the American economy...”
– Energy: Friend or Enemy? by William D. Nordhaus | The New York Review of Books
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The Scent of Your Thoughts →
Although we are usually unaware of it, we communicate through chemical signals just as much as birds and bees do.
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Missed Connections →
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“I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it...”
– Ada Lovelace
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Happy Ada Lovelace Day! →
Ada Lovelace Day aims to raise the profile of women in science, technology, engineering and maths by encouraging people around the world to talk about the women whose work they admire.
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E.P.A. Task Force Issues Strategy on Gulf Coast →
