Bike Art

The Brain Pickings blog features Maria Popova’s review of the recently published Bike Art: Bicycles in Art Around the World (Kiriakos Iosifides, Gingko Press). It looks like an attractive book, even if it doesn’t include the sculpture above.

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Good Science Always Has Political Ramifications

“Good Science Always Has Political Ramifications. Why? Because a scientifically testable claim can be shown to be either most probably true or false, whether the claim is made by a king or a president, a Pope, a Congressperson, or a common citizen. “

– from Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America by Shawn Lawrence Otto (Rodale, 2011).

More:

“Good Science Always Has Political Ramifications [Book Excerpt],” Shawn Lawrence Otto, Scientific American

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Sarah Palin Leaves 2012 Race; Now a Full-Time Fictional Character

Former Alaska Temp-Governor Sarah Palin disappointed Tea Party stalwarts by declining to enter the race for the 2012 Republican Presidential nomination. She made the announcement on CNN Fox News Twitter  mighty Cumulus Media Radio. After talking it over with God, Mrs. Palin explained to host Mark Levin, she’s decided to remain on the $100,000-a-pop personal appearance circuit, hawking her book-like objects.

Sarah Palin has always been more of a celebrity than an actual public figure, a creation of marketing image-makers. Now that she’s out of the presidential race, she’s become a full-time fictional character in the novel It’s Classified, written by former Palin media advisor Nicolle Wallace.

Banned Books Week

September 24 — October 1, 2011 is the thirtieth annual observance of Banned Books Week.  The freedom to read what we will is firmly rooted in the First Amendment, yet many who rant about upholding the Constitution would restrict our access to written art, enlightenment, and information. Celebrate liberty and literacy — read a banned book today.

Fire Sale

Download your summer cookout at a fire sale price. Mark Bittman’s Kindle Single e-book What I Grill and Why is on sale for $1.99 $0.99. Cooking tip: don’t put your Kindle too close to the grill or it will melt.

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Literary Hill Bookfest 2011

Literary Hill BookFest
Sunday, May 15, 2011
11:00AM to 3:00PM
Eastern Market, North Hall
7th Street & North Carolina Avenue SE
Capitol Hill, Washington DC 20003

If you’re in DC and like to read, stop by Eastern Market this Sunday and meet local authors Louis Bayard, Selene Benitone, Simon Conway, Kim Fellner, Lucinda Fleeson, Maggie Hall, Sharon M. Hannon, Margaret Hollister, Barbara Joe, Katy Kelly, Marguerite Kelly, Kevin R. Kosar, Nancy Lifset, Peter Manseau, Celeste McCall, Diana McLellan, Spike Mendelsohn, Jean Nordhaus, Mark N. Ozer, Erica Perl, Robert Pohl, Richard E. Rubenstein, Ariel Sabar, David Ian Shaman, Richard Treanor, Cathy Travis, Gene Weingarten, John R. Wennersten, Peggy Walton and Bonny Wolf.

More:

“The Literary Hill Goes Live!” Karen Lyon, Hill Rag

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What Men Think About

Shed Simove has published a book called What Every Man Thinks About Apart From Sex. Each of the book’s 200 pages is completely blank.

The book is a worldwide best-seller.

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Unblinking Witness

“The Kodak has been a sore calamity to us. The most powerful enemy indeed…. The only witness I have encountered in my long experience I couldn’t bribe.”
– Quotation from Mark Twain’s bitter satire “King Leopold’s Soliloquy” (1905) about the Belgian monarch behind unspeakable atrocities in the Congo.

Scott McLemee interviews NYU’s Susie Linfield, author of The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence in today’s InsideHigherEd.com

 

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Women Rock

Lucy O’Brien has an interesting post in the Britannica blog. Ms. O’Brien is author of She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Rock, Pop & Soul and She Bop II, and she reflects on the role of women in the music industry, and how it has changed in the past quarter century.

It’s a rich subject. If you agree, here are a few more titles to consider:

Charlie Sheen’s Worst Transgression

In the great news famine that accompanies a National Holiday, we caught up on celebrity scandals and discovered the awful truth about actor Charlie Sheen’s rampage in a Manhattan hotel. Mr. Sheen did something much worse than rough up a rented porn star, abuse booze (and perhaps drugs), froth at the mouth, and get rushed to the hospital. He destroyed the Eloise Suite at the Plaza. If Mr. Sheen ever faces a jury with American women on it, the television star is a dead man.