Wildlife of Unknown Status
The only way forward when you’re lost in the woods, Frost once wrote, is straight ahead. But where is the Florida jungle straight? ...more
Posts Tagged: Loch Ness Monster
Wanted/Needed/Loved: Benji Hughes’s Pareidolia
Love is irrational and it’s supernatural. It’s also probably what we want/need most. ...more
Weekly Geekery
Religion and science in the ancient world.
It’s okay Nessie, there are some who still believe.
Women’s labor and online games.
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What we need is a kinder, gentler robot.
Using Google to find a monster.
Thinking beyond extinction.
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Smart phones are tracking your perfect student.
The important warnings of sci-fi’s dystopian tales.
Because you are interested in the Loch Ness monster.
Online rumors and lies and the science of stopping them.
Making hard choices? There is an app for that.
...more“Black Eyes and Oozing Bullet Wounds”
Liz Wyckoff’s interview with Laura van den Berg for Tin House is a nice complement to our own.
They talk about cohesion in short-story collections, faraway settings, and van den Berg’s collection of ceramic Loch Ness monsters. A preview:
...more…the women I write about are often seduced by the ugliness and the danger, by the violence or the promise of it—and they often end up paying a steep price for that seduction, in that moment where the promise of violence falls away and the bare, brutal reality of it appears.
