1. The Secret Life of Dust 2 hours ago   permalink

The Secret Life of Dust
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I'm reading The Secret Life of Dust by Hannah Holmes. I'm not a big fan of "scientific reading," but this book is fascinating! I had been completely unaware of exactly what is trapped in those pesky dust-bunnies that I'm constantly getting rid of in my home.

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Christmas books   —  From prizewinning poetry to bestselling thrillers, D-day to the credit crunch, Wolf Hall to a picturebook about a dying duck, our writers and guests pick the best of 2009 Julian Barnes Laura Cumming's A Face to the World (HarperPress) examines the subtleties of the transaction which occurs in the self-portrait: painters painting themselves, ...

2. Stalking millionaires 1 hour ago   permalink

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3. A Game of Fools 1 hour ago   permalink

The Web Comic List

Tomorrow I head off on a two week holiday on Bali. Unfortunately, this means there is a chance some of the comics over the next couple of weeks may be a bit late. I'm going to try my best to get them up on time - for the most part I should have quite a bit more spare time over there then I've had in the last month or so, and all the hotels should ...

4. Ford County 2 hours ago   permalink

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After 21 best-selling novels, John Grisham can do whatever he wants. And what he wants, at the moment, is to write short stories. Thus Ford County, the seven-story collection just published and set in the fictional rural North Mississippi enclave he created in his first book, “A Time to Kill.” ...

5. Little Women 2 hours ago   permalink

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I am reading Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. I have never read a classic. This is one of the most enjoyable books I have ever read.

6. Clock Quotes 2 hours ago   permalink

Clock Quotes
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The time comes when you realize that you haven't only been specializing in something - something has been specializing in you. - Arthur Miller Read the comments on this post...

7. Less Work, More Play 3 hours ago   permalink

Less Work, More Play
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Well, the weekend is here and so I have wrapped up most of the official part of my visit to Madrid. Lest you think that I spent most of my time eating (not that there's anything wrong with that), let me mention that I ended up, from Monday to Thursday giving about eight hours of detailed exposition at the board and fielding questions (the ...

8. Robotic Hamsters....Honestly? 3 hours ago   permalink

Robotic Hamsters....Honestly?
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By Sarah Yesterday, I did not attempt to leave my house except to take out the garbage and feed the neighbors' dog (though, much to our surprise as we padded through their house wondering at their wood fire, the neighbors...

9. Workers at work 4 hours ago   permalink

Workers at work
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Work is all I've been doing lately. Seen at Parliament and Carlton....

10. Поезд "Невский экспресс" сошел с рельсов 5 hours ago   permalink

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Примерно в 21:40 произошла авария во время движения поезда "Невский экспресс" №166, направлявшегося из Москвы в Петербург.

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11. Renounce your pomp! 6 hours ago   permalink

Renounce your pomp!
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I think I like this woman. Nell McCafferty rips into representatives of the Catholic church, asking, "What's holy about the Vatican?" and insisting that they ought to set aside the titles of "Father" and "Grace" and so forth, because they've betrayed them. I love the Irish when they get that fire in their eye! Read the comments on this post...

12. Katz 7 hours ago   permalink

Katz
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Felines worked part-time this week due to the holiday.... Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...

13. Daily Briefs 7 hours ago   permalink

Daily Briefs
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Happy Thanksgiving Weekend! Brian takes a small vacation away from his vacation to answer a trio of questions about, shockingly, the history of anime itself. 2009-11-27

14. Amazon Nominates Corpse Delivery Service for Award 8 hours ago   permalink

Amazon Nominates Corpse Delivery Service for Award
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The Amazon.com retail website has nominated Eiji Ohtsuka and Hosui Yamazaki's The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service volume 9 as one of the Best Book Covers from a Series for 2009. Bunpei Yorifuji designed the cover. 60 covers were nominated in 10 different categories. The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service volume 9 is the only manga that Amazon ...

15. 100 Notable Books of 2009 19 hours ago   permalink

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The Book Review has made these selections from books reviewed since Dec. 7, 2008, when we published our previous Notables list. It was not easy picking the winners, and we doubtless made mistakes. To the authors who made the list: congratulations. To the equally deserving ones who did not: our apologies.

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C. Max Magee / The Millions :   The Notables: 2009

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Literature in ... Macedonia Books of the Year: Part II   —  Andrew Gelman's Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do (Princeton University Press, £12.95) crunched data on rich and poor voters in rich and poor states, came up with a geek's delight: a book that gets past the old red state/blue state chestnut, using a wealth of statistical graphics to back up its ...

16. ASSASSINATION AND FUNERAL OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY 8 hours ago   permalink

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The network coverage of the assassination and funeral of John F. Kennedy warrants its reputation as the most moving and historic passage in broadcasting history. On Friday 22 November 1963, news bulletins reporting rifle shots during the president's motorcade in Dallas, Texas, broke into normal programming. Soon the three networks preempted their ...

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17. Top Ten Internet Videos Countdown: #5 9 hours ago   permalink

Top Ten Internet Videos Countdown: #5
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18. NIGHT OWLS - Nov 26 8 hours ago   permalink

NIGHT OWLS - Nov 26
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"The Night Owls" is a Detective Agency set in New York City in the 1920s and specializing in cases that involve the supernatural. Professor Ernest Baxter is the brains of the operation, utilizing his vast knowledge of all things weird to right the wrongs that leave ordinary police baffled! He's a bit of a bookworm, and allergic to sunlight, but ...

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19. Going Rogue by Sarah Palin 11 hours ago   permalink

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Jay Parini shudders at the thought of President Palin Sarah Palin is a figure of fun on the American left, easily lampooned as a know-nothing, gun-toting ex-beauty queen who loves God and the red, white and blue above pretty much anything else except for Todd, her macho husband, who races snowmobiles across the Alaskan tundra. To the American ...

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Going Rogue by Sarah Palin Dumbass Quote of the Day   —  From the obviously senile Billy Graham, through his son , about Sarah Palin: "He's followed her career and likes her strong stand on faith," said son Franklin Graham, who was present for the 2 1/2-hour get-together. "Daddy feels God was using her to wake America up." Well, it worked. America woke up to the possibility that such an unhinged shrew ...

20. The manuscript has been submitted for crowdsourced peer review 10 hours ago   permalink

The manuscript has been submitted for crowdsourced peer review
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Our good blogfriend DrJ&MrsH has prepared a manuscript for your review. It contains such observations as: Despite no obvious size disparity, Righty consistently delivered more product than Lefty. Across all observations (n = 50), Righty matched or outpaced Lefty (Fig. 1). Our data were consistent with this finding (Fig. 3), although the fucking ...