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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
17 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
Mar
27

A Faith that Burns, or the Sermon at Ground Zero
What is belief really worth?
14 min read
Dec
02

Austin on Climate
10 min read
Nov
09
A Very Heat Death Election
13 min read