FEATURED BLOG FROM THE EDITORS OF PURPLE STATE
One of the most profound pleasures of my life has been reaching across the aisle to John Marks at PurpleStateofMind.com. Almost everything about this project was experimental and accidental. It started with John's phone call, inviting me to take a look back at where we were as roommates at Davidson College...More
CRAIG'S BLOG
MUTANTS AND MYSTICS: A Mind-Growing Trip
How many kids reading comics, envision themselves flying? They may imagine making that single bound off the roof of their home, only to land with a deflating thud (and maybe even a broken arm)? Mutant and Mystics is a throwback to a time when comics and sci-fi first expanded our notion of what’s possible, when adolescent dreams were fueled by the visions of Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and Philip K...More
JOHN'S BLOG
PURPLE STATE OF MIND: A Farewell To Arms
by JOHN MARKS States are funny things. One minute, they're real, the next a memory. Purple State Of Mind barely registered as a thought in a few thousand minds, never found its way onto a map and had no claim whatsoever to legitimacy. Yet somehow, for four remarkable years, from October 2007 to December 2011, it came to have a life of its own...More
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Autopsy: Evidence of Marijuana in Martin's Blood
Medical examiners found evidence of marijuana in Trayvon Martin's system after he was fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer, an autopsy report released Thursday shows.
LIVESCIENCE LATEST RSS FEED
Steps of First Native Americas Traced From the Arctic
A genetic analysis of tribal human groups show how Native Americans made their way from Russia.
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Police: Boy, 13, Tortured And Abused In Front Of Bible Study Group
A California pastor's assault on a 13-year-old boy took place during a Bible study session as a circle of men watched, newly released court records say. The pastor has other legal problems as well.
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Arts & Letters Daily (17 May 2012)
Carlos Fuentes, prolific Mexican novelist, polemicist, diplomat, is dead at 83... NY Times... Wash Post... LA Times... NPR... Telegraph... Guardian... WSJ... Independent... Daily Beast... BBC... For Leo Strauss and his acolytes among political theorists, it is always September 1938, and we are always in Munich... more A scientist suffused with a sense of wonder is one motivated researcher. That entirely human feeling merits being at the very inception of scientific inquiry... more
