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SPACE AVALANCHE: Wilson

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Weekly Geekery

Video game anti-heros.Technology is making everything beautiful.One way technology is making everything awesome (as discussed above): A video of deans losing their cool.Another opinion: Get technology...

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Apollo Revisited

Tom Hanks (yeah, that one), lands his short fiction debut over at the New Yorker:I’ve been around great storytellers all my life and, like an enthusiastic student, I want to tell some of my own. And I...

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The Value of an Education

A graduate of Chabot College, Tom Hanks defends President Obama’s new community college proposal, explaining the benefits of his free education in the New York Times.Related Posts:Handwriting...

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You’ve Got Mail and the Internet of Ordinary People

The Internet taught me how to type, and FOMO—fear of missing out—remained my biggest motivator. I was in middle school and I wanted to keep up with the conversational flow in eighteen-and-under,...

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A Man’s ABCs of Miscarriage

A is for Alphabet. Long before Patty got pregnant, my Facebook friends populated my newsfeed with articles discussing the importance of words in a child’s development. So when, a couple years later,...

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Notable San Francisco: 12/14–12/20

Wednesday 12/14: McSweeney’s presents Emily Carr (Whosoever Has Let a Minotaur Enter Them, or a Sonnet). Free, 7 p.m., Alley Cat Books. Michael Chabon reads from his new book, Moonglow. Free, 7 p.m.,...

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Just Chaste Me

Beverly Hills, 90210 taught me how to have sex. In the penultimate episode of the first season, back in 1991, Brenda Walsh (Shannon Doherty), the seventeen-year-old female lead, lost her virginity to...

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FUNNY WOMEN: Other Contenders for 2017’s Word of the Year

Merriam Webster announced that the Word of the Year for 2017 was “feminism.” Here were the German contenders for Word of the Year. Whewkerpow: The consolation that people are talking about a beloved...

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Notable Los Angeles: 11/12–11/18

Monday 11/12: Margo Sorenson discusses and signs Secrets in Translation. 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore. Karina Longworth discusses her film book Seduction, with Mark Olsen. 7:30 p.m. at Skylight Books....

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This Week In Indie Bookstores

Bookstores in the Latin Quarter of Paris are being priced out. Check out this bookstore, founded in 1979, that’s had nine locations in its lifetime. Workers of The Strand bookstore rallied in protest...

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