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
Asher Elbein
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
Nov
09
A Very Heat Death Election
13 min read
Aug
23
The Endangered 'Real American'
In search of our country's most notorious cryptid
9 min read
