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Tag: Robin Sloan

At Last — A Clean, Mean eBook App: Robin Sloan’s Fish

Posted on April 9, 2012 by David Dobbs · 8 Comments

Novelist and blogger Robin Sloan had something he wanted to say about three things he loves — writing, reading, and the Internet. He wanted people to really absorb it. Seems safe to say he wanted us to love it. The usual path to such love is to write a great blog post, then track the […]

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This is How We Think: We Make Constellations From Stars

Posted on March 22, 2012 by David Dobbs · 4 Comments

A recent conversation on Twitter between @TimCarmody and @RobinSloan alerted me to this brilliant post from Tim Carmody (who can also be found at Wired’s EpiCenter). It’s a lovely description of how we make sense of things, finding patterns in what’s presented to us, both in science and in everyday life. The thing is, even the […]

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Maybe The Coolest Dance Film Ever – Or Is It Film Dancing?

Posted on March 15, 2012 by David Dobbs · 1 Comment

The film comes straight via the invaluable Snarkmarket. It looks like something out of film class, but the video itself is undoctored: The dance is shot as it appeared to the audience, without cuts or angle changes. But as the audience’s excitement makes clear, it came off the stage as it comes off the screen here: as something […]

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I write features, reviews, and essays for The New York Times, National Geographic, Aeon, Mosaic, Slate, and other publications. I am also the author of three books, as well as the Atavist hit My Mother’s Lover, the true strange story of my mother's secret wartime affair, which became a # 1 best-selling Kindle Single, and which readers of the longform publisher The Atavist selected as their favorite Atavist publication. You can keep track of me at Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, and Facebook. For my reading recommendations in my daily newsletter, Read Two of These and Call Me in the Morning., sign up either here or in the form below.

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