Money, Sex and Tweens
...what you want. Or perhaps expand what you want. JC: Not me. I found it really calcified my interests. I imagine that I tried different things for about six months...
Osmic Frequencies
...toluene-like” and with a stronger bitter almond character than normal acetophenone. A 2004 study published in Nature Neuroscience tried to refute this claim. The Rockefeller olfactory neurogeneticists Andreas Keller and...
Nia in Two Acts
A year after her murder, reflecting on Nia Wilson reveals the ways black girls struggle against erasure while also reveling in opacity
The Real Image
...that I, too, was gaining access to more of my brain than ordinary mortals could, and that if I tried, I could destroy objects with the power of my mind....
Lucky Number Seven
...off as thoughtful and kind — it’s clear that he wants to use his good fortune to help others — and lives out his commitment to social justice by teaching...
May Day 2012
...officials have tried to control the student movement. Mainstream Québec media – and by extension the majority of Canadian media that pick up from these sources – have insisted on...
Kenya's Security Act: Citizen Reporting
...finding out the truth in Kenya and trying to hold the state accountable. Key Changes in the Security Bill Kenya’s mainstream media has tried to argue that the Security Act...
Forced into the Fringe: Margaret Murray’s Witch-Cult Hypothesis
...By Kathleen Sheppard Margaret Murray was an Egyptologist at University College, London from 1894 to 1935. She spent much of her career managing administrative and teaching duties in the...
Ordinary Boredom
...display are the postcards Shore had made, a series called Tall in Texas, featuring more or less generic locales in Amarillo. Apparently he tried to sell these commercially and reportedly...
The Passion of Private Manning
...a gender counselor and, according to the chatlogs with the informant who turned him in, he had tried cross-dressing on his last trip home to the States. Therefore, the New...
Mommie Dearest
Adoption stories usually begin with the conceit of orphans, when oftentimes the mothers are still alive.
Lost in the Supermarket
...the supermarket. The aisles were crowded with evening shoppers. There was Muzak. I slid into the warm colors and the clicks of the cash registers. I tried to remember near...
Junk Drawer
...The results themselves are only temporary—they would look different every time—capturing the ebb and flow of our pop culture obsessions. In many ways Odell is just as much an anthropologist...
A Woman Under the Influence
Mary MacLane's spectacular moods first fueled, then failed her
The Invented Persians
...mocking his death): As they tried to arrest more and more people the group of strong and defiant Palestinian women we were with threw their bodies over the men they...
Mind Games Forever
...ways the counterculture was domesticated and commercialized over the course of the 1960s, redirecting the revolutionary impulses aroused by contempt for the system at one’s own personality, which, in the...