Health Skills: Getting through it. ( H/T Dave Munger's latest research blogging round up.)
Working With Chronic Illness: 3 traps you can avoid
The Design Blog: ASUS Waveface Ultra: Wear your computer around the wrist like a bracelet (Slow-loading link, but very cool.)
Columbus Museum of Art Blog: CMA Executive Director Nannette Maciejunes and Bruce Harkey of Franklin Park Conservatory discuss their respective Dale Chihuly exhibitions on All Sides with Ann Fisher (Streaming audio available at the link. No transcript as far as I know; please leave a link in comments if I'm wrong.) Here are text links about the Franklin Park Conservatory's Chihuly Reimagined exhibit and the CMA's Chihuly Illuminated exhibit.
Tayari Jones: Upstate Girls. Jones discusses video essay "The Women of Troy" by Susan Sommers-Willet and Brenda Ann Kenneally. Jones labels the images in the video to which she links NSFW:
...not because they are sexually graphic, though there is a lot of skin. The photgraphs [sic] sort of give me the feeling that I am looking into people's private lives and I am not sure if it's okay for me to watch. [...] My real question is about the images. Are they too much? [...] Or does it matter who's looking? It seems that this is the precious question of 2010.Maud Newton via Laila Lalami on Twitter lets us know that The Boston Review has a 1975 interview with Susan Sontag up in celebration of its 35th anniversary.
Ben Zimmer: "Tweet" Named Word of the Year, "Google" Word of the Decade
Three-Toed Sloth: Books to Read While Algae Grow in Your Fur, December 2009
Not So Humble Pie: Science Cookie Round Up #1
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