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FACE SCIENCE DAY: fungus dept
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“an inch of hair that represents infinite evil”:
vanity fair’s rich cohen attempts to reclaim the “toothbrush”[…]

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geezesthetix ii: fvck da hataz
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apologies for talkin abt chocolate bars on a FOOD BLOG but here is an IMPORTANT WARNING
if like me you are in a small turkish cornershop of a morning queuing for ANADIN EXTRA cz you hf 1 x HORRIBLE PRESSURE HEADACHE, and you spot the woman behind the[…]

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my eyes! my eyes!
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these are, in fact, my eyes! DO YOU SEE? (click to enlarge)
healthy yay! — the whitish crescents on the optic nerves are a sign of short sight, as are the “dark matter” tesselations patching the red areas[…]

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never off
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what film is most often shown on UK TV? i vote tremors — and i know bcz i watch it EVERY TIME (and so does my dad)[…]

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richard cook (1957-2007): some memories
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RDC was my editor at NME, and predecessor at the Wire, which has just put up a page of tributes from people who worked with him, including mine[…]

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food science (zoology dept)
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animals i et bits of last night inc.
i. autruche
ii. ane
iii. sanglier
iv. cerf[…]

the politics of naming: the decade right now passing
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various attempts bin made, nothing stuck yet: the noughties, the naughts, the 00ze…
oddball composer, pol-blogger and er “hayekian leftist”* stirling newberry suggests: the thousands, embedded in this (interesting, hyper-compressed,[…]

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warning sign off now
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seems like everyone i’ve ever been in love with has been a bergman lover, some of them fixating on films which shd maybe have pressed the panic button WELL in advance… on the other hand joan tate, who wz the first (i wz maybe 5 when i fel[…]

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“world’s only reliable newspaper” to close :(
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the weekly world news will be no more come august
my favourite story: two-headed woman pregnant! one head wants to have the baby — says the other, “absolutely not!”[…]

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The Freaky Trigger Top 100 Tracks Of All Time: No. 57 ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS – “Oliver’s Army”
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I semi-remember just two lines from the NME’s (Charlie Shaar Murray’s?) review of “Armed Forces” (secret unused title “Emotional Fascism”). One was that one of the other songs resembled ELP “jamming in the bo[…]

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