Snippets

Some tidbits for your Tuesday afternoon reading pleasure:

* Jon Stewart and his co-authors have won the Thurber Prize for American Humor for America (The Book).

* Metrosexual = passé and tired. The new term? Übersexual. And yes, it's just as trite and exclusionary as it sounds. (via Bookslut)

* Stanford University's chemistry department has just instituted formal policies for pregnant graduate students - a very progressive move that I hope will serve as a template for other grad programs across the country.

* Forget coffins and crematoria. A UK Art group based in Japan has figured out how to "infuse the DNA of recently deceased loved ones into trees, turning the plants into living memorials." How cool is that? (via Design Observer)