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  • Seattle band Fleet Foxes is launching an arts and literary journal, The Unified Field<\/em><\/a>. Quoth the L<\/em>, \u201cRound one features a journal entry penned by recently freed West Memphis 3 member Damien Echols on adjusting to life after eighteen years on death row, an excerpt from Gloria Steinem\u2019s forthcoming book, a photo essay on adolescence by noted rock photographer Autumn de Wilde, a contribution from SPIN<\/em>\u2019s Charles Aaron, and another from Animal Collective sister\/visual collaborator Abby Portner, among 30-plus other pieces.\u201d Proceeds benefit nonprofit 826 National<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  • During the sixties, the FBI kept a file on suspected communist sympathizer Ray Bradbury<\/a>. According to the bureau\u2019s then-source, \u201csome of Bradbury\u2019s stories have been definitely slanted against the United States and its capitalistic form of governmental.\u201d <\/li>\n
  • Kindles don\u2019t have a soporific effect<\/a> according to one study: \u201ca two-hour exposure to light from self-luminous electronic displays can suppress melatonin by about 22 percent \u2026 Stimulating the human circadian system to this level may affect sleep in those using the devices prior to bedtime.\u201d <\/li>\n
  • The Marriage Plot<\/em> hits the small screen<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  • Across languages,\u00a0\u201cthe fundamental colour hierarchy<\/a>, at least in the early stages (black\/white, red, yellow\/green, blue) remains generally accepted. The problem is that no one could explain why this ordering of colour exists. Why, for example, does the blue of sky and sea, or the green of foliage, not occur as a word before the far less common red?\u201d<\/li>\n

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