Zoë Lance.

  • Link Party: 5/11-5/15

    A few exciting things happened this week, which I’m really excited to tell you all about soon. In the meantime, here’s what I read this week: 1. Alex Herns gets a lot of emails that aren’t meant for him. 2. Will art save the future generations from radioactive waste?  3. This writer took her mom…

  • Link Party: 5/4-5/8

    I’m very, very sorry that I’ve been MIA this week. I have to tell you, it’s been a rough quarter in terms of scheduling: I don’t get home most weeknights until 6:30 or 7 p.m., and by then my brain is mush. But I have a lot of ideas for posts next week, and things…

  • Link Party: 4/27-5/1

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. A fascinating mini-profile on Louis Sarno, a musicologist that lives amongst the Bayaka in the Central African Republic. 2. It’s okay to run through The Six with your woes and then cry about it, Drake. 3. What the new Twitter Highlights tells us about Twitter and ourselves. 4.…

  • Link Party: 4/20-4/24

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. Avocados are very important. 2. This is what happened when the Washington Post sent its food critic to critique a restaurant 80 Yelp users have rated 1-star. 3. Emoji are also very important, especially on the linguistics front. 4. Mallory Ortberg‘s advice to her younger self is wonderful.…

  • Link Party: 4/13-4/17

    There were a few things I wanted to blog about (like my last capstone paper and the Time 100 list) that I just didn’t have time for. #TeamNoSleep, but that’s what next week is for. Anyways, here’s what I read this week: 1. The importance of coffee for Icelandic culture. 2. It’s comforting to know…

  • Link Party: 4/6-4/10

    I was actually really productive this week — must be the Week 2 recharge. Anyway, here’s what I read: 1. A four-in-one about how the restaurant business is reinventing food waste. My personal favorite is the photo essay about the aprons. 2. I also would like to attend the Audubon Society’s school for sick burns.…

  • Link Party: 3/30-4/3

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. These are the emails you get from Twitter when you don’t Tweet, follow anybody or log into the account. 2. This guy tried to analyze 18 years of his email, which amounted to nearly half a million messages. 3. The history behind and surrounding the Mark Rothko murals…

  • Link Party: 3/23-3/27

    Here’s what I read this week: 1. This really interesting comparison between evil soliloquies in Shakespeare and Robert Durst’s hot mic. 2. If you’ve ever been curious about how shows like The Daily Show with Jon Stewart get specific sound bites from news broadcasts and stuff like that, this is how they do it. 3. Ephemera…

  • Link Party: 3/16-3/20

    For it being finals week, I’ve had an incredibly productive week — I could get used to that. Here’s what I read this week: 1. A really interesting look at the life of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Pioneer Girl. 2. A good argument for bringing texting back. 3. A story about two data designers who…

  • Link Party: 3/9-3/13

    A brief bit of unsolicited advice before I get to the link party: I just want to tell all of you that there is absolutely nothing that limits you from teaching yourself whatever you’re interested in and seeking out additional educational avenues. I wasn’t getting the writing experience I wanted from my academic classes or my job, so…