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Sep
18

Decline and Fall Annex: Dressing the Empire with Tansy Gardam
Going Rogue's Tansy Gardam on blue jeans, Star Wars costumes, and what clothes an empire.
15 min read
Sep
11

The Time of the Orc is at Hand
A classic Heat Death post asks: what does it take to make an eternal enemy?
21 min read
Sep
04

Cherry-Scented Ghosts
What does it mean for a lawn – or a landscape – to be haunted? Novelist Wendy Wagner explains.
12 min read
Jul
31
We're All Jocks, Jamming
How did sports and music get so inexorably entangled?
13 min read
Jul
22

Alien Minds
Was Nope’s antagonist really a monster?
15 min read
Jul
16

Under the Red Hood: A conversation with Gretchen Felker Martin
Gretchen Felker Martin on Jason Todd, working in corporate IP, and the gun-men of superhero comics
19 min read
Jul
02

The Soul In The Machine
On R.U.R and the forgotten origin of the word "robot."
12 min read
Jun
26

Dug Up Treasures
Fast times and paleontological headaches from the archives of the Texas WPA
19 min read
Jun
17

The Feminist's Salmon
An excerpt from Feminism In The Wild on what it means to queer the animals -- and why doing so is just good science
16 min read
Jun
10

Katrina Redux?
7 min read