The Art of Antarctic Cooking
...and fishballs said to contain cream, mysterious soups, and all the latest inventions in condensed foods." None of these marvels of modern food processing contained enough ascorbic acid to prevent...
Vapor Eyes
...well beyond what could reasonably be described as a pen. They can contain any number of custom liquids with varying degrees of nicotine strength and flavoring. Vaping is not by...
Ramadan Diaries, Day Four
...it. ♦︎ Awareness of the rhythms of the day, particularly the degrees of light in the sky. Daybreak comes earlier each day as nightfall descends. These quotidian rhythms do contain...
Warcare Industries
K-beauty’s explosive popularity is wartime beauty recalibrating for an era of endless war, where civilians can best aid the war effort by behaving as though there isn’t one
FREE PALESTINE. STOP COP CITY.
It is clear that Stop Cop City represents one of the conjunctural spear tips for expanding the existing systems of counterinsurgency that span Africa, Asia, and the Arab world.
Vonnegut's Firefighters
...anyone was there to contain it. After the war Vonnegut worked for General Electric in Schenectady, New York. Like Eliot he served as a volunteer fireman (Badge #155) in the...
Eco Chamber
...of my relationship with Borges.” – Umberto Eco, "Borges and My Anxiety of Influence" There is a small but certain subgenre of literary works whose titles contain the names of...
The Body in Painlessness
The subversive potential of pain set into motion the forces that created the opioid crisis
Book Covers of the Year
...opposed to the cartoon-like mystery of the Houellebecq. I can see that it’s good, but I don’t love it. I like a book design to contain some element of worry....
The Silver Lining
In a break from constructing predictive models, Nate Silver crafted an entirely new universe to answer the question “What if Hillary won?” Following a prolonged radio silence, this latest dispatch from Earth 2 explains why we haven’t heard from him since.
Shop Talk
...are always begging to see her in their label’s latest wears. Her reticence and composure do nothing to contain the strong impression she leaves on those she encounters. But this...
Social Media Is Not Self-Expression
...a "connected world" all around you, and there is no denying that being online metes out "connectedness" in measured, addictive doses. But those doses contain real sociality, and they are...
Sunday Reading
...Kerim Friedman: Let's Spit On Hegel The Excel Depression How Many Guns Did the U.S. Lose Track of? Everything is fucked: The syllabus Many scientific papers contain Excel...
Storefront Supernatural
...room can be fatal, and the unsupervised dispensation of antibiotics can lead to unusually resistant strains of bacteria. Powders used in treatment of infant colic have been found to contain...
Google's Macchia
...style and execution. “Every painting must contain an idea,” Imbriani wrote, “but a pictorial idea, not just a poetical idea.” And for him, this pictorial idea was a matter of...
Sunday Reading
...bet your safety against the promise of beauty.” Container Spotting Which This Margin is Too Small to Contain "Wonderfully but unsurprisingly, the mechanism used to study [fault] creep is called...