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Hey Walden fans, I recently published a special edition of Walden for Kindle complete with an essay on Thoreau by Woolf. Check it out! http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VGZA5BM

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If you’ve made it all the way through any of these, give yourself a pat on the back. Bonus points if you actually understood what you were reading.

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Former Daily Show funnyman John Oliver's Net Neutrality rant led to the FCC's servers shutting down for hours.

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Just learned that Linda Greenlaw, who is the only female swordfish captain on the East Coast and who later became famous after she was featured in the book and movie "The Perfect Storm," is also a bestselling author.

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Audiences and creators know that on one level or another, there’s an inherent gender bias in the movie business -- whether it’s the disproportionately low number of films with female leads, the pro...

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"Why doesn’t America read anymore?" NPR asked on Tuesday.

Wait how did I miss this? Amazing.

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Jon Stewart returned from a week-long break Monday night to pillory CNN for its MH370 coverage, saying they had about a minute of good coverage before going, Oh sh*t, we've got 23 hours and 59 minutes left to fill. F*ck it, let's go nuts!

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In 1926, J.R.R. Tolkien, who would later go on to write The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, completed his own translation of the Old English poem Beowulf. Eighty-eight years later that work is going to be published for the first time

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Those who attack cartoonist Alison Bechdel's now-famous criteria for evaluating films have misunderstood its very purpose

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Talk show hosts Piers Morgan and Chelsea Handler got into an epic blowout on “Piers Morgan Live” on Monday.

After Morgan spent the commercial break tweeting from his phone, noticeably irritated guest Handler slammed Morgan as "a terrible interviewer" and said “maybe that’s why your job is coming to an end," about the recently canceled show.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/chelsea-handler-rips-piers-morgan-as-terrible-interviewer-on-live-tv-2014-3#ixzz2vlpgolc1

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The Trews: True News with Russell Brand Ep. 10 Including... Including... Cheryl Cole's circuit of manufactured reality Does the NHS have too much money? Bob ...

Watch Russell Brand analyze the news

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Yesterday Rebekah Brooks revealed in court she was a founding member of Women In Journalism, an advocacy group working for sex equality in news media, set up in 1994. But 10 years on, what's changed?

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New post on my History of Massachusetts blog! Check it out!

William Dawes was a Boston tanner and one of the riders sent by Dr. Joseph Warren to alert John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the approaching British army on the night of April 18th, 1775.

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“Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.”

John Adams

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Opinion: The piecemeal response to mobile internet consumption by publishers is reminiscent of the music industry ten years ago. If things stay as they are, the future of publishing looks bleak