Happy Friday all! This is Cassie, bringing you what I’ve been reading this week. I actually have today off, but hopefully these links will provide you with a bit of entertainment as you wait for the weekend to officially begin.
As I’m sure you all know, George Carlin died on Sunday. Here’s his last interview. He will be missed.
They found ice on Mars!
Congrats to the following OUP authors who made Foreign Policy’s list of The World’s Top 20 Public Intellectuals: Abdolkarim Soroush, Tariq Ramadan, Bernard Lewis, Richard Dawkins and an honorable mention for John Esposito.
I’ll admit it, I usually wish I was British. I love the accent. But this makes me rethink that a little.
Joyce Antler, OUP author of You Never Call! You Never Write! was given an award by Brandeis University. See her amazing work profiled here.
Want to see what’s filming in New York right now? Check out this list from the Mayor’s Office of Film and go crash a movie set!
What you’ve always secretly wanted to know: how to survive Doomsday.
And finally, my favorite webcomic, starting with the very first strip. This one’s good for hours of entertainment.
I do like these links. Especially this post, because I’d never seen Unshelved before. After going through a good 30-40 strips in one go, it is now my second fave webcomic, after Sequential Art:
http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.html