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4 Copy Editors Killed In Ongoing AP Style, Chicago Manual Gang Violence

I’m particularly tickled by the MLA reference. 4 Copy Editors Killed In Ongoing AP Style, Chicago Manual Gang Violence | The Onion

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Neil Gaiman’s Journal

This is great advice for everybody.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.

Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something.

So [...]

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How To Gain or Lose 30 Minutes of Life Every Day

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If you smoke two cigarettes, you lose 30 minutes of your life. Exercise for 20 minutes, and you gain two units of microlife. Over time bad habits accelerate your aging, and good habits slow it down… – Scientific American.

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Explore – Laconic history of the world in a typographic map…

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Explore – Laconic history of the world in a typographic map….

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Why Students Today Complain About Grades—and How We Can Fix It

I periodically get emails from former students who thank me, several years after a class is over, for challenging them in a way that prepared them for life after college. I don’t get so many grateful comments while the students are still in college.

I don’t blame my students, but a certain proportion does seem [...]

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Snow Fall: Finally an articulation for the digerati of what a big, expensive newsroom can do

Yes, the NYT multimedia “Snow Fall” was wonderful, and my new media colleagues are excited by it. But it took 11 staff members 6 months to publish. Is this really what new media journalists should emulate? How can I scale this down to the classroom?

The future of journalism is about speed, volume, rough and [...]

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After Hours – Why The Star Trek Universe is Secretly Horrifying

After Hours – Why The Star Trek Universe is Secretly Horrifying

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Fathers disappear from households across America

A touching bit of balanced storytelling, without editorializing, via selection of quotes and telling descriptive details.

“I know dads that say they ain’t their kids. I see dads being disrespectful of the mothers. And I see ones who take other men’s kids to football games because they know their fathers aren’t around,” said Mr. McManus, [...]

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30 Web Designs Featuring Vintage Style Typography

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30 Web Designs Featuring Vintage Style Typography.

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Minimalist Graphic Interpretations of Philosophical Concepts — Prints by Genis Carreras | Society6

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Art Prints by Genis Carreras | Society6.