From the BBC this morning, an hour’s meditation on the nature, practice and moral questions regarding war photography: Regarding the Pain of Others In her 2003 essay Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag grappled with this question. War photograp…
Kim Stanley Robinson & Omar El Akkad discuss the climate crisis
Kim Stanley Robinson and Omar el-Akkad discuss the responsibility science fiction writers have to address the climate crisis. See alsoIf civilization can’t get through the next 30 years without a mass extinction event, such an event will hammer human c…
A wasp inside a wasp inside a butterfly
“The reintroduction of endangered species comes from the heart, a good place, but we have a lot to learn about the species we are reintroducing and the habitat where we want to reintroduce them before we do so…”Butterflies released in Finland contain…
Mississippi John Hurt Video Collection
Mississippi John Hurt Video Collection
Pretty much what it says on the tin, but, oh, the cameos — both aural and visual.
Let them eat chipboard
Deadwood Releasing 10.9 Gigatons of Carbon Every Year – More Than All Fossil Fuel Emissions Combined See also
The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition
Diseased Trees May Be a Significant Source of Methane that Causes Clima…
The Last Flight of Dr. Ain
The Last Flight of Dr. Ain As the enclosed biographical note reads:James Tiptree, Jr., was the pseudonym of Alice B. Sheldon (1915-1987), who before turning to writing had been an artist, a newspaper art critic, a World War II photo-intelligence office…
The Gospel of Philip K. Dick & thepostarchive
The Gospel of Phillip K. Dick from thepostarchive, the latter of which is an incredible and ongoing labor of love compiled by a self described ”NB PoC trying archivist collecting between and through institutions.” Wherein you can find for now, among s…
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