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Jul
31
We're All Jocks, Jamming

We're All Jocks, Jamming

How did sports and music get so inexorably entangled?
13 min read
Jul
22
Alien Minds

Alien Minds

Was Nope’s antagonist really a monster?
15 min read
Jul
16
Under the Red Hood: A conversation with Gretchen Felker Martin

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
17 min read
Jul
02
The Soul In The Machine

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

Dug Up Treasures

Fast times and paleontological headaches from the archives of the Texas WPA
19 min read
Jun
17
The Feminist's Salmon

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?

Katrina Redux?

7 min read
Mar
27
A Faith that Burns, or the Sermon at Ground Zero

A Faith that Burns, or the Sermon at Ground Zero

What is belief really worth?
14 min read
Dec
02
Austin on Climate

Austin on Climate

10 min read
Nov
09

A Very Heat Death Election

13 min read