New Zealand’s Dragon Lady of Paleontology
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Diseases Of Virgins And Spinsters: The Gynephobic History Of Chlorosis And Hysteria
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The Stifling Air of Rigid Radicalism
Can radical politics harbor a deadening conservatism?
Launching a Book Into the Birthgrave
...Novelist China Miéville joins Evan Calder-Williams to launch Calder-Williams’ book Combined and Uneven Apocalypse (Zero Books) by announcing the death of the “Salvage punk” theory it presents. Salvage Punk...
Remembering the Women of the Mathematical Tables Project
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Hysterical Housewives, Radical Feminists, and The Gendering of Expertise About The Pill
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This Is Going to Hurt
Serious challenges to the status quo will be met with panic and repression
Black Friday, Or the Circulation of Commodities
...Alibaba.com, sometimes known as "the Chinese eBay," connects shoppers looking to purchase commodities in bulk directly with manufacturers from across the world. The site encompasses more or less every...
The Will to Wall
...thousands of unauthorized migrants have perished since the mid-1990s, and elsewhere. He recounts one particularly horrific case, that of 15-year-old Felani Khatun, who in January 2011 tried to surreptitiously cross...
A Country Disappeared
...education system (controlled by the teacher’s union) and open PEMEX, the state-owned oil company and Mexico’s main source of income, to private investment. Buried under these sweeping structural adjustments, and...
Confessions of an American Pumpkin Eater
...Teachers tried to mitigate the problem by writing multiple versions of the same test, swapping in different versions of the same questions, or mixing up their order. That may have...
Fail Worse
...Workweek by Timothy Ferris: “ ‘Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.’ You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the...
Sweet VR of California
Sweet Valley is a digital utopia where bodiless souls can explore psychedelic understandings through a networked VR high-school cult
Lady Wranglers
...all levels, and I’ve been increasingly curious about where this pernicious idea came from, how people have tried to address it, and why it persists. This semester, I’m teaching a...
While I Was Away
...a year ago, I tried to return to romance novels written in the 1970s and early 1980s, and I couldn't. They were full of rape. It was a vernacular. I...
Beauty Blogosphere 7.20.12
...at the end of the day, I "talk like a girl," and I see no reason to reconfigure. In fact, when I've tried to reconfigure and not be so damned...