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Wes Phillips
Swan Song
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 25, 2007  |  0 comments
On the disappearing great operatic diva.
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Wes Phillips
Real Life Superheroes
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 25, 2007  |  1 comments
I love Tothian: He "doesn't wear a mask because it blocks his peripheral vision, and says he doesn't wear a cape 'because capes get in the way of actually doing real superhero stuff.'"
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Let Us Now Praise Editors
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 25, 2007  |  0 comments
Me, I'm lucky—I work with a great editor and an even better copy editor. It's win-win.
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Stephen Mejias
Ins and Outs
Stephen Mejias  |  Jul 24, 2007  |  6 comments
Let's Play the Caption Game!
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Wes Phillips
Living Photographs
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 24, 2007  |  0 comments
Arthur Mole and John Thomas arranged thousands of soldiers, reservists, and nurses into various patriotic symbols and photographed them from above—a description which, while being accurate, doesn't prepare you for their work.
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A Prehistory of the Atomic Age
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 24, 2007  |  1 comments
There's a new biography of Leo Szilard, the physicist who proposed the Strangelovian "doomsday weapon."
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On Farting: Language and Laughter In the Middle Ages
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 24, 2007  |  0 comments
Who am I to critique somebody else's field of study?
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Robert Baird
Steamin' in the Rain
Robert Baird  |  Jul 23, 2007  |  1 comments
It's Monday. It's raining. And people, tourists in particular, (excuse me, why don’t you just poke out the other eye while you're at it!) cannot walk with umbrellas, so let’s talk Ticketmaster.
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Format Wars
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 23, 2007  |  0 comments
Woulda, coulda, shoulda—some "superior" formats just didn't achieve dominance.
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Why Do They Hate Us?
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 23, 2007  |  0 comments
Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, was asked on a book tour, "So tell me, sir. Why do they hate us?" Having spent half his life in America, the Pakistani writer had to think about who "us" and "they" were. This fine essay is the result of that thinking.
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