The Interference Archive went on a Wikipedia edit-a-thon to help balance gender inequality on the site, which is overwhelmingly edited by men. Our own Sonya Chung writes on how to write across gender.
Correcting Gender Inequity
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Carl Wilson, author of Let's Talk About Love: A Journey to the end of Taste (a book length study of Celine Dion's megablockbusting album of the same name), revisits the enduring and sort of nauseating classic from Titanic's soundtrack in The Atlantic.
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Morgan Spurlock’s Guide to Comic-Con
Supersize Me director and star Morgan Spurlock's latest project has released its first trailer. Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope profiles the atmosphere and attendees (including Seth Rogen and Kevin Smith) of San Diego Comic Con. It will release this April. (via)
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Microscopic Tears
Photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher uses powerful scanning electron microscopes to provide “an unexpected view of [a] familiar subject: … human tears.”
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Cities
The Atlantic asks, "Why do cities matter?" In its own way, n+1's City by City series can be read as a response.
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The Story Behind the Letter
Letters of Note posted an incredible letter from a former slave, and Kottke rounded up some more info he and others uncovered about the letter writer.
The Tournament of Books Declares a Winner!
The Tournament of Books declares a winner! It was down to two in the last round: Jonathan Franzen's Freedom (called "big, messy, flawed, enraging, and engrossing" by C. Max Magee, one of the final round judges) and Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad (which "ached with feeling and tension...") Find out who won at The Morning News!