In Praise of the Weird
The weird is that which introduces cracks into the edifice of the status quo, liberating possibilities for different futures.
Read more...Category Archives: Curiousities
Culture Clash: What 14 Million Images Tell Us About Times A-Changin’
An effort to track culture changes over time via diversity of coiffure and attire….but the data has some not-acknowledged biases.
Read more...Book Review: You Talking to Me? How Human Language Evolved
Prehistory professor Steven Mithen’s “The Language Puzzle” explores the mysteries of when and how we began to speak.
Read more...Spook Scholarship: A Prominent Former CIA Analyst and Project Ukraine Backer Moonlights as a Collegiate Textbook Coauthor
Students lucky enough to be assigned the books will learn that foreign countries resisting US imperialism aren’t the only danger to “democracy,” but the American people are as well.
Read more...Is EU’s Fuzzy Natural Gas Math Leading to Major Minuses in the Caucasus?
Armenia-Azerbaijan peace process gets tangled up with the EU’s desperate ploys to kick Russian gas reliance.
Read more...Sixteen Dad Jokes in Honor of Father’s Day (with Zeisgeistiana)
What will a future Zeitgeist historian think?
Read more...Death and the Cinema
A discussion of film, even films about death, will hopefully come as a distraction from turbulent news.
Read more...“It’s Not Just Ideology: Why the U.S. Is Hard-Wired to Be Hostile to Autocratic Regimes”
An, erm, novel exercise to present Americans as always on board with good-thinking values like opposing autocratic players.
Read more...Book Review: How Plants Experience the World
In “The Light Eaters,” Zoë Schlanger considers the evidence for plant intelligence, and what that means for humanity.
Read more...String of Conveniently Timed Spying Cases in Germany Influence EU Elections, Undermine Chancellor’s China Efforts, and Spread Fear of Russian Fifth Column
Spies, spies everywhere.
Read more...Combating “Hate”: The Trojan Horse for Precrime
Canada pushes ahead with a pre-hate-crime bill as US states continue with programs to collect data on all types of hate “incidents.” Can “precrime” really prevent hate or are there ulterior motives at hand?
Read more...Russiagate Revived in Latest MI6 Operation Against Russia — A Spy Alone Is Spy Baloney
Russiagate fever reaches a new pitch with a new supposed spook-tells-all tale of Russia fixing the Brexit vote.
Read more...Book Review: The Secrets of Earth’s ‘Silvery Sister’
Earth may orbit the sun, but Rebecca Boyle argues that our planet cannot be understood without considering the moon.
Read more...Where Do Living Creatures Get Their Sense of Rhythm?
Weighing the evidence for the idea that humans are not alone in having rhythm.
Read more...My New Year’s Resolutions
Nine achievable New Year’s Resolutions.
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