Hexup for Jan 11

The first Hexup of the new year doesn’t promise to be the best, but it’s pretty great. Between new pictures from the Hubble, excellent performance art, hislarious charts, and some useful writing list, I’d say we’re pretty solid.

It’s full of stars

The deep field images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope remain some of the most beautiful and most important photos ever taken by humanity, showing us swaths of the universe we’d never been able to see before. Earlier this week six new deep field images were released, revealing even more of the vast amount of things and nothingness out there. To me it always looks like tiny stones on a jeweler’s mat.

The Nth Estate

Grant Snider drew this wonderful organizational chart for the national department of poetry, a multi-billion dollar poetry bureaucracy he envisions. I’d love a position in the Joint Chiefs of Cacophony, and I’m pretty sure Dan’s already bucking for a job in the e. e. cumming society to overthrow syntax. Where would you fit?

Justified

There are certainly more than eighteen things a woman shouldn’t have to justify, but Brianna West does a really good job of picking out some of the common ones, the justifications you never think about but are problematic nonetheless. These are things that no one should be expected to justify, but women are uniquely pressured to do so, no doubt.

Causation and vaccines

Redditor Jasonp55 has discovered the true cause of autism in his accidental graph, if you believe that correlation equals causation. Which it doesn’t. Still, the steady increase of organic food sales is suspicious. Who is eating these vegetables, and what might they be doing to our children?

Write!

I’ve been writing more, and found this great list of articles on developing writing skills by science fiction author James Alan Gardner. If you spend any time at all writing, especially fiction, it’s well worth checking out.

The Wheel House

Acrojou, wild artist people that they are, have put together a new show called the Wheel House, a sort of steampunk wheel performance piece. They really make their house a home. Check it out.

Acrojou, ‘The Wheel House’ from Acrojou on Vimeo.

And that wraps us up for this week. Thanks to Linda Carson, Terre Chartrand, Ryan Huckle, and Aliçia Raimundo for their contributions! If you’ve got an article that’s interesting, fun, or artistic, tweet it to us at #cchexup, and it might just wind up in the roundup!