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Mashup Score: 1
Artist/Tolkien devotee Jenna Kass and TV Critic/fantasy philistine Dylan Roth are a married couple who have joined forces to review the new Amazon Prime original series The Lord of the Rings: The R…
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Mashup Score: 3How Creative Thinking Can—and Should—Inform Medical Science - 2 year(s) ago
Let’s consider Jill L, a well-dressed woman who comes to a busy, inner-city ER late one Saturday night with vague symptoms that include chest pain and shortness of breath. She’s easily the best-dre…
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Mashup Score: 1Remember: Dirty Dancing demonstrated the best response to a guy pushing Ayn Rand on you. - 2 year(s) ago
Dirty Dancing has given us many things. A love story. A drama about class. An argument for legalized abortion. A million classic wedding songs. “No one puts Baby in a corner.” And of co…
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Mashup Score: 1Somebody finally fixed the ending of The Giving Tree. - 2 year(s) ago
This weekend on Instagram, I discovered something I never knew I always wanted: a helpful update to Shel Silverstein’s psychotic parenting allegory The Giving Tree, in which a tree gives up e…
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Mashup Score: 2Why We Need More Writers Practicing Medicine (and Vice Versa) - 2 year(s) ago
In 2003, Rivka Galchen received her M.D. from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Once she was finally a doctor, she turned away from medicine forever. Seeing patients was not her calling;…
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Mashup Score: 0Some Practical Notes for Publishers on Readers with ALS - 2 year(s) ago
I’m an avid reader with ALS—a bad combination. My reading was turned upside-down in 2008 by a diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, often known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Without cure, its symp…
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Mashup Score: 2
Having come of age in the San Francisco Bay Area and in New York, both with dense immigrant populations and tourists, I’ve always taken it for granted that at any given moment, in any given bakery …
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Mashup Score: 3A Close Reading of the QAnon Shaman’s Conspiracy Manifesto - 3 year(s) ago
The “QAnon shaman”—Jacob Chansley, the tattooed dude having an Excellent Adventure in Mike Pence’s Senate chair on January 6—put a photogenic face on the insurrection, and on Trump’s Idiocracy. Bar…
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Mashup Score: 1How Vincent van Gogh’s Favorite Works of French Literature Influenced His Art and Identity - 3 year(s) ago
Vincent van Gogh loved writers as much as he loved painters. It was partly by immersing himself in literature that Van Gogh developed the singular, elegant voice that makes his letters such an impo…
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Mashup Score: 0Check out the original 1851 reviews of Moby-Dick. - 3 year(s) ago
On the occasion of its 170th publication anniversary, here are the very first reviews of Herman Melville’s leviathan-sized opus of obsession, revenge, and meticulously detailed whaling practi…
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This is an interesting discussion about episode 6 of the Rings of Power, between a Tolkien expert who feels increasingly left cold by the series and a Tolkien-naive TV critic who starts to like it. https://t.co/8ZsmIcXt8l