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Improving Us From Above 25 Aug 2013 | 04:40 pm
The academic Robert Skidelsky shares with Observer readers his vision of the good life. Or, more accurately, his vision of How Other People Should Be Made To Live™: Society would be organised so the a...
Friday Ephemera 23 Aug 2013 | 04:14 am
Admit it, he’s cooler than you. // Cleaning windows in New York City. // The owl and the pussycat. // Carnivorous caterpillar of note. // Things taken apart. // 100,000 digits of Pi. // The U.K.’s pow...
Another Blow to the Patriarchy 21 Aug 2013 | 06:57 pm
Giant 12-metre screaming vagina installed in women’s prison: Joburgers have a chance to stroll through a huge walk-in vagina thanks to an art installation erected at the old Women’s Jail in Hillbrow, ...
Three Snippets from One Paper 20 Aug 2013 | 12:53 pm
Author and doomsayer Hal Niedzviecki highlights a gathering of great import: This weekend the Sustainability Centre in Hampshire will be home to Uncivilisation 2013, which describes itself as “a gathe...
Too Feeble for Freedom 16 Aug 2013 | 02:01 pm
FIRE co-founder Alan Charles Kors discusses free speech, freely. “What a terrible price students are paying now for the idea of comfort.” Or just the promise of power over others.
Friday Ephemera 16 Aug 2013 | 04:11 am
The cat in a shark costume riding a vacuum cleaner returns. In night vision mode. // Pond water inhabitants. // Your very own drinking horn. // Nazis on the Moon? // Quote of note. Explained in detail...
Not Hearing His Own 12 Aug 2013 | 12:47 pm
While we’re on the subject of odd Guardian articles - odder than usual, I mean - here’s another. Owen Hatherley, formerly a contributor to the Socialist Worker and Socialist Review, is today telling h...
Sweating From The Effort 9 Aug 2013 | 02:03 pm
Apparently it’s the duty of every female Guardian contributor to air her feminist credentials at regular intervals and to find a feminist angle for pretty much anything that moves. So you can imagine ...
Friday Ephemera 9 Aug 2013 | 04:14 am
A cat in a shark costume rides a vacuum cleaner. // Rule the skies with OstrichCopter. (h/t, Julia) // PandaCam, obviously. // A mirror for couples. // How to make Pimms. // The poetry of Mr Eugenides...
A Certain Newspaper in a Nutshell 7 Aug 2013 | 05:57 pm
A debate ensues.
