All Our Little Lives
...banalities because they don’t know yet that people won’t. Your Twitter feed isn’t complete until you follow a teen, and you aren’t entertaining until you start acting like one....
Chestnut Economics
...the square before chopping it up and feeding the bits to birds. The Cambro-Norman soldier Robert Fitz-Stephens complained that the English peasant gives his chestnuts to "our swine in England...
Licensed to Ill
...feed a flu and starve a cold, the saying goes. I've never been one to insist on such distinctions. When I get sick, I feed. Nothing makes my appetite go...
On Landings, Soft and Otherwise, and Aggressive Lacks of Proportion
...to judge from her twitter feed (full of retweeted greetings from people around the world, telling her she’s famous in Argentina, etc). She’s not much of a victim, either, because...
Mapping the Sneakernet
...is never neutral.” Between those who’ve never touched a computer and those who get a feed of data directly into their Google Glass sits a vast array of modes and...
The Virtual Watchers
...including a bar in Australia that kept a 24-hour feed for its customers. However, the most astonishing discovery was a Facebook group that gathered some of the volunteering citizens that...
See You in Court, Harvard!
An annotated lawsuit suing Harvard over its investments in companies that profit from prisons
Sunday Reading: October 1, 2023
...machine is the dream of each contemporary state. To feed it the children of the world is the privilege of empire. The formal phase of the War on Terror died...
Escape From Minus World
...and feed myself because everyone I meet accepts my plastic credit card as easily as they would some ink-stained cloth. There is a distinction between the two objects for me,...
Beauty Blogosphere 8.3.12
...beauty and style editor at xoJane.com. I'm pleased to hear this because I'm a big fan of Gala's, but I've had my problems with xoJane, specifically what looked like exploitation...
Disaster Act
Puerto Rico’s uprising and the instrumentalization of Lin-Manuel Miranda
Women Tinkerers: Gender and Labor in Jellyfish Husbandry
...on her research and paid close attention to the feeding schedule, diet, and growth of her jellies. Many of her published findings in the Irish Naturalist surprised the biology community,...
Personal Ads
...“Bound 2” on Ellen DeGeneres's daytime talk show reminds us all, once again, that he's a genius. For the first few days, when it was exclusively streaming on ellentv.com, that...
Being Damien Hirst
...seem to suggest that you are critical of the huge premium placed on art-objects, and you describe yourself as a non-profit artist. Your site and your Twitter feed are full...
Dr. Maria Montessori, Feminist
...time, such children were lumped together under terms such as idiots, imbeciles, delinquents, or degenerates, and they were essentially abandoned by society. Instead, Montessori urged her compatriots , “Our efforts...
Old Neighbors, New Battles
Rekindling Indigenous relations against colonial violence