I'M REVOLTING

Loneliness does not come from being alone, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important, said Carl Jung.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness, said David Foster Wallace.

We're all in this alone, said Lily Tomlin.

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Intersex people aren't allowed to serve in the U.S. military >> more

Art idea #21: Pour a glass of water to look at. Brilliant >> more

Five cent shopping bags and behavioral economics >> more

Is this work of art really "uncollectable"? Or just always on sale? >> more

Rebel artist's tragic ending >> more

After five years of deliberate spending, works by women now account for 17 percent of Centre Pompidou's collection >> more

Top corporate and special-interest donors to federal-level politics >> more

In the history of material culture, the Makapansgat pebble represents "the birth of want" >> more

What typeface are you? >> more

History of the ampersand >> more

"Can we ever find 'perfection' or 'certainty' or 'truth'? No! Then let us stop using such words in our formulations.": An argument for eliminating all forms of the verb "to be" >> more

How to guarantee your luggage won't be lost >> more

There are 35,000 stray dogs in Moscow. Some have even learned how to ride the Metro >> more

New book about the Getty: "Chasing Aphrodite: Decline and Fall of the World's Richest Museum" >> more

Snowballs made by wind >> more

In defense of a "general and massive easing-up on widows and orphans" >> more

How to be insulting without being ill-bred, or, the only thing written by Bertrand Russell that I've ever wanted to read >> more

Bravo announces new reality show competition for artists >> more

Roman dialect has word to describe the act of stabbing someone in the butt >> more

Neanderthals wore make-up and were thus "capable of symbolic thinking" >> more

On art projects that are never completed: "It is the “unbuilt” or unfulfilled nature of the future that drives manifestos" >> more

Helvetica in Arabic >> more

State of Illinois sued for serving prison inmates too much soy >> more

Dim sum visual dictionary >> more

Say what you will about Adam Gopnik, this line is sticking: "To trust in luck is to be courageous, and courage, the one essential virtue, on which all others depend, is also the one ambiguous virtue . . ." >> more >> more

"Life Before Death": Walter Schel's photographs of people before and right after they have died >> more

The morality of selling babies >> more

Sensor-studded clothing that records domestic violence >> more

The only writer to graduate from Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters >> more

"I will seriously consider eliminating the penny," Obama said >> more

Walking drunk vs. driving drunk vs. biking drunk >> more

Journalism corrections of the year >> more

Is art blogging really that bad, asks Christopher Knight in the Los Angeles Times >> more

Michael Stipe's capsule line for Maison Martin Margiela >> more

Idi Amin and gallerist Robert Fraser had a sexual liaison? >> more

Italian anthropologists to run DNA tests on Caravaggio's exhumed remains >> more

Terranaut II: A fish-powered bicycle >> more

First time there will be live nudity at the MoMA >> more

Duke University Press publishes two-decade-old doctoral dissertation by S. Ann Dunham, Barack Obama's mother >> more

Switzerland bans minarets >> more

Was just debating this the other day: The fashion trends for which this decade will be remembered >> more

Bush's lawyer in Bush v. Gore leading Prop. 8 legal challenge >> more

Forty-six percent of people who own a fake designer handbag buy the real thing within two years: "People were becoming increasingly attached to the real brand even though they never possessed it at all." >> more

The Paradox of Choice, revisited >> more

Maybe this is why art matters: People are willing to pay a lot for it >> more

Should conservatives reappropriate the term "teabagger"? >> more

Gallery show opens at 1 p.m. today. At sundown, all the art will be set on fire >> more

What's the world's most-stolen artwork? >> more

PETA considered "domestic special-interest terrorist" organization by U.S. government >> more

"Eternal Sunshine": Drug wipes out single, specific memory in mice while keeping others intact >> more

Filler words such as "um" and "like" in different languages >> more

I can't believe I hadn't seen this before. A three-way tie on Jeopardy! >> more >> more

Corduroy skirts are a sin >> more

Coalition of artists files FOIA to reveal which songs were used to interrogate detainees: "Mohammed al Qahtani, the so-called twentieth hijacker, said that whenever he fell asleep, the guards would crank up Christina Aguilera" >> more

The two main types of lists, according to Umberto Eco: "etcetera" and "everything included" >> more

Most of Australia's greenhouse gas emissions come from sheep burps? >> more

While growing up on Catalina Island, D.'s mom used to feed pickles to the wild bison. Now, those bison's descendants are getting contraceptive injections >> more

Two butterflies are born on the space shuttle Atlantis >> more

Has sleepwalking ever been captured on tape? Why researchers know so little about people who kill in their sleep >> more

The BBC's artist reality TV competition premiered this week. I'm scared to watch >> more

Pope urges artists to make works that are beautiful >> more

Is Design Within Reach in trouble? >> more

Yemen will be first country to run out of water >> more

Galileo's fingers discovered in a jar >> more

S. A. Andrée's ill-fated balloon journey to the North Pole >> more

How to choose a pen name >> more

Do assassinations matter? An analysis of all 298 assassination attempts from 1875 to 2004 and their political repercussions >> more

Creating the signage that will warn future generations about toxic waste dump sites: "There will always be someone who studies ancient languages." >> more >> more

Make your own Sriracha hot sauce >> more

The importance of a museum's permanent collection >> more

"Two Month's Salary" >> more

The two humanistic enterprises that most loudly declare their commitment to truth are barely on speaking terms. Why we need a Philosophy of Journalism >> more

Jeanne-Claude, dead at 74 >> more Daul Kim, dead at 20 >> more

Is there such a thing as a publicly owned image? Or are there only not-yet copyrighted images? >> more

President of Ultimate Fighting Championship becomes first head of major sports league to welcome openly gay athletes >> more

Discontinued McDonald's menu items, including corndogs and the Jason Kidd burger >> more

Morehouse College dress code bans men from wearing "clothing usually worn by women" >> more

Is Call of Duty 2 an anti-war game? >> more

TSA bans snowglobes in carry-on luggage >> more

Naming an aesthetic: "Modern Hemingway" or "New Antiquarian" or "Haute Americana"? >> more

An ongoing, eight-decade science experiment, unseen by anyone: "It took eight years for the first drop to fall." >> more

The 15 Fortune 500 companies run by women >> more

Revisiting the death of the American Dream >> more

Instead of a communal water font, machines that dispense single servings of holy water >> more

I ate my first mangosteen last month. I'm drinking bilberry tea right now. Next up: paw paw gelato >> more

The quest to create a new, rational language, absent redundancies and irregularities >> more

Top 200 artists of the 20th century to now, according to an online poll >> more

Paleontologists made stew from the neck of an extinct steppe bison that had been frozen for 36,000 years >> more

Mars Rover is stuck in a pit. "The choice on which way to drive will not be made lightly." >> more

Finally, a decent newspaper in San Francisco? Too bad the San Francisco Panorama is a one-off >> more

Twenty least powerful people in the art world. Rosalind Krauss makes the cut: "We couldn't remember who she is and we were too lazy to Google her." >> more

Claude Levi-Strauss is dead >> more

The weirdest people in the world? Great academic paper topic I can't believe hasn't been covered before >> more

Ron Artest raps about violence against women in Afghanistan, seriously >> more

Anti-rape condom >> more

Meatless Mondays in Baltimore's public schools has drawn ire from something called Pork Magazine >> more

Yale University Press refuses to publish controversial Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons in book about the controversy >> more

Economics experiment demonstrates benefits of backstabbing >> more

Royalties from The Great Gatsby totaled $8,397 in F. Scott Fitzgerald's lifetime >> more

"No Woman No Cry": Does this lyric mean "There is no woman that does not cry" or "Don't cry if you don't have a woman"? A philologist weighs in >> more

Slavoj Zizek lecture on new book, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, interrupted by bomb threat >> more

Editor of WaPo says he "failed to reconcile language with intentions." >> more

Tom Cruise was Christian Bale's inspiration for Patrick Bateman in 'American Psycho' >> more

ACLU considers destroying tapes of board meetings, claiming verbatim recordings are "working papers" not official record >> more

Genocide in Iraq against homosexual men and boys, who are publicly tortured, mutilated and killed >> more