Substance Meets Swankiness
a: Drudge report ~
b: the love child of 2 disperate peoples
What: "Matt Drudge is a sort of spiritual protege of Walter Winchell (1897-1972). He even poses like Winchell over a microphone wearing a dark fedora, the signature attire of the mid-20th Century American newspaperman slash gossip columnist whose syndicated articles were once read by fifty million people worldwide, until he moved too close to the fire around Joe McCarthy and got burned. The Drudge Report is like a child born to a casual encounter between The National Enquirer and The Christian Science Monitor. Part tabloid. Part respectable."
Writer: Lee Cary
LCC:
Where:
Date: Mar 8 2013 3:57 PM
a: left hemisphere ~
b: a serial processor
What:
"Or, to steal a metaphor from Jill Bolte Taylor, the left hemisphere is like a serial processor, while the right is a parallel processor. (My shriveled little inner computer geek, who surely lives in the left brain, loved this idea.)"
Writer: Bolte Taylor
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Where:
Date: Feb 21 2014 3:30 PM
a: Messenger rna ~
b: a genetic order form
What: "RNA polymerase uses the patterns in the bases as a guide for building a third compound: messenger RNA. Messenger RNA is like a genetic order form--it carries the recipe for a protein from the DNA to protein-building factories outside the nucleus."
Writer: Michael Purdy
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Where:
Date: Feb 24 2014 4:33 PM
a: baked potato ~
b: eating paper
What:
"It's time to write about something that is obviously of utmost importance. Baked Potatoes. Baked potatoes are ruining my life and countless meals I have had to endure through. Let's be honest. Eating a baked potato is like eating paper. There's no flavor, the texture is obviously more redeeming then paper but is not exciting either. Baked potatoes alone are bland and awful so my husband said, "That's why you put all that stuff on it." Oh ok so let's take a piece of paper and put chili and sour cream and cheese on it and I say we get the same results..awfulness. I'm serious people. It's time to wake up! We can't keep eating baked potatoes and taking a bite and say: "My what a lovely baked potato!" False. There is no such thing."
Writer: Cody Paige
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Where:
Date: Dec 14 2014 8:20 PM
