“Eating red meat is associated with a sharply increased risk of death from cancer and heart disease, according to a new study, and the more of it you eat, the greater the risk…. each daily increase of three ounces of red meat was associated with a 12 percent greater risk of dying over all, including a 16 percent greater risk of cardiovascular death and a 10 percent greater risk of cancer death. The increased risks linked to processed meat, like bacon, were even greater: 20 percent over all, 21 percent for cardiovascular disease and 16 percent for cancer.”

“I first saw Mark on a dudeblog, someone reblogged a video of her and I was supposed to think what I was watching was bizarre/pitiful/gross/funny. Instead I felt better about everything I had ever been through, and I laughed, and felt bad for anyone too plain and typical to get anything positive out of it.” — Tumblr user “BRB Nightmares.”

According to friends, artist Mark Aguhar has died. Among other projects, Mark ran a blog called Call Out Queen. Aguhar’s MFA performance at the University of Illinois can be found here; an archive of drawings can be found here; an archive of performances and sculpture can be found here.

Update: There’ll be a memorial for Mark in Chicago, later this week:

March 17th 12pm-3pm
Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center
1034 N MILWAUKEE
CHICAGO, IL 60622

Rebekah Brooks, the resigned CEO of Rupert Murdoch’s News International, was rearrested this morning as part of an early morning raid regarding the company’s hacking scandal, this time on the charges of “conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.” And this time they took her husband too.

If you read just one piece of hysterical overheated lunacy today, although I certainly hope you read many of them, definitely make it third-generation rich man and Harper’s magazine funder John R. MacArthur’s rant about the Internet.

The dot com bust didn’t end my Internet travails. It wasn’t so long ago — maybe eight years — that I found myself trapped in a corridor at Harper’s, surrounded by a small mob of what I can’t help but refer to as “young people.” These youthful members of my editorial staff — one of them now the co-editor of Mother Jones Magazine — were imploring me, demanding even, that I meet the Internet revolution head on by posting free what they also described as “content” on our brand new Harper’s Web site so that it might be consumed by a huge reading public supposedly dying to read our longish essays, reporting and short stories. The Internet, I told them, wasn’t much more than a gigantic Xerox machine (albeit with inhuman “memory”), and thus posed the same old threat to copyright and to the livelihoods of writers and publishers alike.

The problem here being that he’s 75% unbelievably wrong — the ramblings on how terrible it was that SOPA was defeated! — but then also sometimes right.

The DIY Office Exorcism

Previously:

What If The Hunger Games Were Real?

Jon Methven is the author of This Is Your Captain Speaking, due out in 2012 by Simon & Schuster. He can be reached here, or follow him on Twitter @jonmethven.

“New research shows that springing ahead for daylight saving time may do more to our bodies than a triple shot of espresso can fix. When we set our clocks forward for daylight savings, some researchers say the disruption in circadian rhythms and minor sleep deprivation is enough to trigger some people to have a heart attack.”

Will humanity survive the next 100,000 years? The folks at the New Scientist answer with a qualified yes, the qualification being that even if most of us die in a fire or from some terrible disease or nuclear explosion or what have you, some of us will surely make it through. Which, you know, enjoy that, future people. Because everyone who is reading this right now is gonna be dead within 50 years, and probably sooner, so it’s not going to be our problem.

Here’s more about those Kraftwerk shows at MoMA that you are probably not going to. Oh, you managed to get tickets? I HATE YOU.

“My boyfriend’s father is staying with us in our Williamsburg apartment for a weekend or so. He’s from a very rural area, but has traveled all over the world, and he has little interest in exploring New York or anything it has to offer. His greatest enjoyment comes from getting cheap food in otherwise expensive cities.”

Yay! RT @kracioppi: shorts in march #unbelievable

— Roger Clark (@RogerClark41) March 12, 2012

This is unacceptable. That is all.