December 2010
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“I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it:...”
– Charles Bukowski
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Skirt! Writer Series: Julie Klausner →
So I got to interview Julie Klausner for the Writer Series on Skirt.com a few weeks ago. I randomly picked up her book, I Don’t Care About Your Band, after walking around Barnes & Noble for half an hour trying to find a decent book published in 2010 to write a review on for a class last spring. (I was drawn to the title, OBVIOUSLY.) She’s hilarious, and the book is damn good. Plus, it’s nearly...
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“We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise...”
– Gloria Steinem
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“MODERATOR 1: Okay. Which designers do you prefer?
SECRETARY CLINTON: What...”
– Hillary Clinton is asked what designers she wears moments after making point about sexism. (via rachelinbrooklyn)
NASA Finds New Life - on Earth! →
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colleenosaurus:
At their conference today, NASA scientist Felisa Wolfe Simon will announce that they have found a bacteria whose DNA is completely alien to what we know today. Instead of using phosphorus, the bacteria uses arsenic. All life on Earth is made of six components: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur. Every being, from the smallest amoeba to the ...
