"it's going out to the mothership / wrap it out, ship it out, kick it to the mothership yeah"

[larryhammer]

Three New Yorker links. Sort of.

Jill Lepore considers how changes in communications have disrupted the American party system multiple times in history.

Steven Strogatz unpacks Einstein's breathtakingly elegant boyhood proof of the Pythagorean theorem.

Matt Diffee shares a cartoon rejected by The New Yorker for being a titch too tastelessly risque. Just a titch. (via, with links to others)

---L.

Subject quote from "Mothership," Kid Beyond. Yes, that's all beatboxing.

Comments

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

That cartoon may have been rejected because it's tasteless stereotyping. You'd expect the New Yorker to reject a cartoon hinging on an Aunt Jemima joke, too.

[larryhammer]

There are, I suspect, many reasons here.