Loch Ness Monster
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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?
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Wanted/Needed/Loved: Benji Hughes’s Pareidolia
Love is irrational and it’s supernatural. It’s also probably what we want/need most.
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Weekly Geekery
Religion and science in the ancient world. It’s okay Nessie, there are some who still believe. Reforming Reddit. Women’s labor and online games.
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Weekly Geekery
What we need is a kinder, gentler robot. The currency of clicks. Using Google to find a monster. Shedding your own skin. Thinking beyond extinction.
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Weekly Geekery
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…
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“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: …the women…
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Waterworld
Loss and longing sit side-by-side with unexpected humor in Laura van den Berg’s stories, reminding readers of the strange things we encounter every day.