Summaries
Scalloped sand dunes in the southern hemisphere of Mars (click for full size), displaying seasonal frost on the south-facing slopes. Photo taken by HiRISE, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on board NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), which has been orbiting Mars since 2006.
More Martian landscape photos here.
The Wild Things by Dave Eggers— a signed, special edition volume available only through Powell’s “Indiespensable” subscription club, which “delivers the best new books, with special attention to independent publishers. Signed first editions. Inventive, original sets. Exclusive printings…. Every six weeks, another installment to read and admire.”
More info here.
Balding female bears at Germany’s Leipzig Zoo are baffling vets working to figure out the condition’s cause— especially since the normally fluffy brown bears should now be growing a thicker coat to keep warm during the winter.
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The Furnace Review - Fall 2009:
New issue went live today for this literary magazine I help out with as a fiction editor.
“I just remembered something that happened in a high school course on civics, on how our government worked. The teacher asked each of us to stand up in turn and tell what we did after school. I was sitting in the back of the room, sitting next to a guy named J.T. Alburger. He later became an insurance man in Los Angeles. He died fairly recently. Anyway— he kept nudging me, urging me, daring me to tell the truth about what I did after school. He offered me five dollars to tell the truth. He wanted me to stand up and say, ‘I make model airplanes and jerk off.’” - Kurt Vonnegut, “Self-Interview” within Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
