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James C. Nieh: Unlocking secrets of the honeybee dance language

Bees learn and culturally transmit their communication skills.

March 19, 2023 · 2 Comments

Baron Wormser: The Good Life

It’s plain that the world as we know it is literally choking on its machine- and money-driven complexity.

March 19, 2023 · 11 Comments

Audio: Grateful Dead Live at Barton Hall, Cornell University, 1977-05-08

Generally considered one of The Grateful Dead’s best performances…

March 18, 2023 · 5 Comments

Barbara Hamby: My Translation

I am translating the world into mockingbird, into blue jay,
into cat-bombing avian obbligato, because I want
more noise, more bells, more senseless tintinnabulation

March 18, 2023 · 11 Comments

Video: David’s Voice

Through a series of intimate performances and conversations with David, his mother and others close to him, there emerges a portrait of an artist searching for his place in life.

March 18, 2023 · 4 Comments

Sabine Oishi: Nazi Gold & The Gnomes of Zürich

A hoard of gold, jewels and priceless art is securely tucked away, guarded, so the joke has long gone, by the gnomes of Zürich.

March 17, 2023 · 2 Comments

Philip Levine: Belle Isle, 1949

We stripped in the first warm spring night
and ran down into the Detroit River
to baptize ourselves in the brine
of car parts, dead fish, stolen bicycles,
melted snow.

March 17, 2023 · 10 Comments

Beverly Gologorsky: Hunger in America

How It Feels to Be Hungry

March 16, 2023 · 3 Comments

David Kirby: My Girlfriend Killed James Brown

“Yeah, I got bumped up to first class, and when I saw who
my seatmate was, I went back to economy and told my girlfriend,
and even though she had the flu, we switch places, and three
weeks later, James Brown is dead.”

March 16, 2023 · 8 Comments

Juan Cole: The American War from Hell, 20 Years Later

The Iraq War ruined what credibility America had as a pillar of international order in the global south and gave Putin cover for his own atrocity.

March 15, 2023 · 7 Comments

Cynthia Atkins: Hairbrush

He’d fall asleep on my chest, breath light as a falling leaf.
Now, he glides the bristles down my neck— He gently fluffs
the tufts, like airing the pillows.

March 15, 2023 · 14 Comments

Irene Vázquez: How Black Hair Practices Can Inspire Architecture

An exhibit at the University of Houston explores how Black hair techniques can be translated into innovative building materials, designs, and methods.

March 14, 2023 · Leave a comment

Fred Shaw: To the Fuckhead Who Stole My Bike

gunning with the bebop of another
coaster at its last dip, the valves
of your heart opening
and closing without fail

March 14, 2023 · 2 Comments

Derrick Z. Jackson: EPA Can Save Lives with Tighter Protections on Fine Particulate Pollution

Globally, fine particulate pollution kills at least 4.2 million people a year, according to the World Health Organization, and perhaps as many as 5.7 million a year…

March 13, 2023 · Leave a comment

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