Our Favorite Things is an 80 minute collection of videos from the experimental music group Negativland.
it has, ironically, become necessary for me to fight my own government
The Adler Planetarium’s Here, Queer, and Exploring Beyond the Atmosphere is a short online exhibit about the life and legacy of Dr. Frank Kameny.
Eat your Liberty
Banana Craze is a virtual exhibition that brings together almost 100 pieces of contemporary Latin American art that explore the way the banana has shaped identities, ecosystems, and violence in the Americas.
The affirmation trap & the overconfidence man.
The Dilletant Army issue, Mission Accomplished, presents essays and poetry on the topic of hollow and premature declarations of victory, largely involving US government officials.
It was fuelled by combinations of “fetid effluvia”
James Tilly Matthews is one of the first well-documented cases of someone suffering from what was probably paranoid schizophrenia. His delusions featured an influencing machine, the Air Loom. Visitors to the Bethlem Museum of the Mind may have seen a p…
What I learned about my writing by seeing only the punctuation
Just the Punctuation is an online tool that strips everything except punctuation from plain text and arranges the result.
TJ guessed that a six-year-old likes animals. What are the odds?
Susan Gerbic, Mark Edward, and a volunteer cadre of
guerilla skeptics attempt to catch fraudulent psychics engaged in hot-reading, often in double-blinded stings such as Operation Onion Ring,
Operation Pizza Roll, and less successful
Operation Bumbl…
neighbours swore to the donkey’s ‘virtuous’ character
Amia Srinivasan’s review of Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia and Post-Human Love for the London Review of Books is thought-provoking. [Includes the obvious NSFW content, as well as brief descriptions of violence and cruelty to both humans and a…
Thank you, Tecuelhuetzin. But our tlahtoāni is in another yāōcalli.
The old-school, side-scroller game for Android and iOS, “Yaopan. Un Juego de la Conquista” was developed by scholars at UNAM to challenge popular historical narratives. You play as a Tlaxcalan during the conquest and the fall of Tenochtitlan. (Text is …
The economists’ reassurances were closer to hopeful guesses
Benjamin Franta has published an paper about the role economists in think tanks and academia played in global warming denial.