by | Aug 19, 2022 | Literary News
from Nautilus The Volcano That Shrouded the Earth and Gave Birth to a Monster Three years of darkness and cold spawned crime, poverty, and a literary masterpiece. BY GILLEN D’ARCY WOOD / Illustrations By Wesley Allsbrook Two hundred years ago, the greatest...
by | Aug 18, 2022 | Mirth
by | Aug 17, 2022 | Weirdness
from Nautilus How the Physics of Nothing Underlies Everything The key to understanding the origin and fate of the universe may be a more complete understanding of the vacuum. by CHARLIE WOOD Millennia ago, Aristotle asserted that nature abhors a vacuum, reasoning that...
by | Aug 16, 2022 | Literary News
from reason The Failed Campaign To Kill To Kill a Mockingbird Recent moves to censor the book have come from Virginia, Mississippi, and California. by JASON RUSSELL (Photo: Harper Lee; Donald Uhrbrock/Getty; Illustration: To Kill a Mockingbird (cover detail);...
by | Aug 15, 2022 | Culture Music Art
from The Atlantic The End of Manual Transmission Stick shifts are dying. When they go, something bigger than driving will be lost. By Ian Bogost Katie Martin I drive a stick shift. It’s a pain, sometimes. Clutching and shifting in bumper-to-bumper traffic wears you...
