Required Reading
- What’s Your Problem with Joe Biden?
- Dirty Rubles: An Introduction to Trump/Russia (My New Book)
- Youth for the President
- A Summary of the Conspiracy Against the United States
- Trump: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 3)
- Postcards from the Resistance, Vol. 8: Mother of All
- From Lance Armstrong to Trump: The Rise & Fall of the Deified Narcissist
- Reading Malcolm X in Texas
- Playing the Donald Trump Game
- President Rapist: Women Under Trump
- An Open Letter to My Fellow Liberals
- The Democrats Can’t Win If They Won’t Fight
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Category Archives: Science
Writing an Elegy for Ellicott City While Reading T.S. Eliot
It is the oldest story— one part of a town destroying the other, oblivious. Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Literature, Science
Tagged Ellicott City, Great Flood of 1868, T.S. Eliot, the river is within us
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The Gross Room
What happens to body parts removed in surgery? John Biemer takes you to the “gross” room. Continue reading
The Sinister History of U-Shaped Toilet Seats
Bathroom fixtures, magical thinking, and cultural complicity. Continue reading
Posted in Science, Sex
Tagged complicity, Dennis Hastert, STDs, U-shaped toilet seats
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Five Questions with Dr. Andrew Weil
OVER THE COURSE of his five-decade career, few medical professionals have proved as influential and controversial as Dr. Andrew Weil. A born iconoclast and one time Harvard colleague of Dr. Timothy Leary, Weil’s visionary work in the field of integrative medicine … Continue reading
Black Herman: The World’s Greatest Magician
Joseph Neighbor revisits the dusty pages of Black Herman’s autobiography, as he discusses the life and mystery of the notorious magician, the art of illusion, and practicing hoodoo. Continue reading
Posted in Religion, Science
Tagged Black Herman, Harlem, hoodoo, John the Conqueror root, magic, magician
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The Politics of Ebola Porn*: Africa, Race, and the Titillation of Horror
Sayantani DasGupta puts the politics of Ebola under a microscope and finds an American horror story. Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Politics, Science
Tagged death, disease, ebola, medicine, news, Republicans, Science
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Project Ex: Why I Talk About The Extraordinary and Why I Want You To Do the Same
Bona fide High Frequency Responder Suzanne Clores talks about the extraordinary experiences that bind us all. An extraordinary experience can stop your breathing, advance your heart rate, raise your temperature and even trigger the vagus nerve, leaving you in a heap, she says. And it’s high time we gave the ole amygdala some credit and embraced the weird. Cause really, it’s not so weird at all. It may just be science. Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Religion, Science, Uncategorized
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