Don’t say “broken”: Should science writers refrain from using the B word to describe the current replication crisis in order to avoid stoking anti-science sentiment? Dan Engber wonders what his responsibility is.
Hero of a college town: Tyler Magill, who suffered a stroke after the violence in Charlottesville, is a quintessential blue-town fixture, an eclectic DJ, and curator of weird lefty culture, his co-worker Jordan Taylor writes. He’s just the type of person the right wing loves to hate.
A thing of beauty: The release of the probably-OK, maybe-just-mediocre movie Tulip Fever has been so epically mishandled—across continents, time, and space—that it warms Kyle Buchanan’s heart.
Limn this: Andrew Kahn put together a dataset of Michiko Kakutani’s work, and it’s a revealing portrait of criticism and literature over the past three and a half decades.
For fun: Very dangerous violence from everyone involved in last night’s Game of Thrones.
Fine people,
Rebecca
