Dec
17
Drowning in the Signal
22 min read
Saul Elbein
Nov
18
Decline and Fall: History and Star Wars with Patrick Wyman
A lively interview on processes of empire, the violence of frontiers, and the role of history in invented worlds.
23 min read
Nov
11
Pissing on Sea Turtles
16 min read
Oct
21
Decline and Fall: The Long (Star) War
An account of the Long Star War, how it began and how everybody, in the end, lost.
19 min read
Oct
07
The Art of the Mashup
Ten song mashups, the joys of fusion, and the key to a perfect curry
20 min read
Sep
23
World's Finest, Forever and Ever
The real difference between Superman and Batman lies not in backstory or costume, but in how they're allowed to change.
15 min read
Sep
09
Decline and Fall: The Military Makes The State
Dispatches from the Armenian drone war, and an introduction to Decline and Fall.
19 min read
Sep
02
Your Skeleton is Nonbinary, Too
A team of archeologists has called a 13th century body nonbinary. The truth may be considerably more complicated.
15 min read
Aug
26
Further Words on Heat Death
Charting a course toward Heat Death 2.0.
7 min read
Aug
19
Welcome to the Lizard Factory
How (and why) to breed Texas' favorite lizard.
15 min read
