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Arin Greenwood

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Arin Greenwood is a writer (and, alas, lawyer) living in Alexandria, Virginia. Arin's stories have appeared in Slate, the Washington CityPaper, the American Bar Association Journal, Asian Geographic, and and many other places. Arin also does private LSAT tutoring, think tank fellowing, and has an unpublished novel - Tropical Depression - that she'd love to tell you about, so don't be shy about getting in touch at aringreenwood@hotmail.com.

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Strange Objects Under the Sea

Kristian von Homsleth is a Danish artist who aims to sink a giant, metal, star-shaped sculpture – that will have at its center a cylinder filled with (donated) human blood and hair – in the Marianas Trench toward the end of this year. Hornsleth – who considers the sculpture to be a meditation on life, eternity, and the imperviousness of large-scale art projects – expects the sculpture will remain sunk for 10 to 15 thousand years. It got us wondering what else has been purposely sunk in the... READ ON

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Recent Inventions in Our Battle With Snow

As you no doubt heard, we had somewhere between 50 and 50 million inches of snow in Washington, D.C., this winter. All a person could do for much was sit around and look at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's website for inventions that could make all this snow more bearable next year. Something like underwear with built-in... READ ON

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DID YOU KNOW? Marlon Brando hated memorizing lines so much that he posted cue cards everywhere to help him get through scenes. He even asked for lines to be written on an actress's posterior. (That request was denied.)