April 2012
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Thinking about Levon Helm this morning. Yesterday...
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“Writers and video producers live in dread of the wandering eye. Audio producers...”
– Julia Barton on Nieman Storyboard (via mialobel)
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My gmail is down. Is yours?
[I use it for work, masking my return address depending on who I’m emailing…]
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“For me, it’s all fly poop on white paper.”
– Han Bennink, on musical notes. [Bennink doesn’t read music. He drums. And drums. And drums. Watch. ]
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“Literally two days later, she started feeling better and a couple weeks later,...”
– Carl Zimmer wrote about a patient infected with the Clostridium difficile bacteria, which causes severe diarrhea and can frequently return, even when treated with antibiotics. The patient was treated with a transfusion of gut microbials from a healthy individual’s fecal material to restore the...
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Anonymous asked: heaven on earth excerpt
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“But as everyone should know by now, liberties begin to erode when you have laws...”
– Sadakat Kadri on the movement to ban Shariah law in America.
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“I’m not quite high on life, just slightly dead.”
– A lyric from Loudon Wainwright III’s new album Older Than My Old Man. Ken Tucker review here.
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“One thing I realized when traveling around the Muslim world is how closely these...”
– Sadakat Kadri on interpretations of the Shariah over the last 40 years.
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“The argument just tends to get so confused these days between people who attack...”
– On today’s Fresh Air, English barrister and historian Sadakat Kadri describes 1400 years of Islamic law and how it’s changed over the centuries.
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