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JANUARY
- Researchers Discover Last Remaining Time Period "Hamlet" Hasn't Been Set In
- Every “chronically online” conversation is the same: At what point does discourse become punishment?
- The root causes of Brazil’s violent protest, explained by an expert
- Normal People, Jane Austen, and the Romance of Walking Around
The romance of the home is inextricably intertwined with the romance of knowing and being known.
Even alone, on a mountain full of sheep, Benjamin was Benjamin
Children don’t need to earn their humanity. Children aren’t humans in training, they are humans right now. They’re not waiting to live their life, this is part of their life in this moment.
- Why all “eat the rich” satire looks the same now
- Who’s There?: Every Story Is a Ghost Story
- HOW, AFTER LONG FIGHTING, GALEHAUT WAS OVERCOME BY LANCELOT YET WAS NOT SLAIN AND MADE GREAT SPEED TO YIELD TO FRIENDSHIP; OR, GALEHAUT, THE KNIGHT OF THE FORFEIT
A knight is a humiliation-seeking device,
FEBRUARY
I did want it—I just thought I wasn’t allowed.
I need you to know: I hated that I needed more than this from him. There is nothing more humiliating to me than my own desires. Nothing that makes me hate myself more than being burdensome and less than self-sufficient.
There are worse things than not receiving love. There are sadder stories than this.
- How Open Hearted Can you Be and Still Survive?
- Let Me Save You Some Time: On Transitioning Like You're Opening A Candy Bar In A Crowded Movie Theater With A Really Loud Wrapper
- Let Me Save You Some Time: A Field Guide To Avoiding Transition By Family Committee
- Must-know for Japanese fandom: the meaning of "proship" and the concept of "proshippers" in Western fandom
- the woes and evils of an attempted PhD in Classics: "outer banks" season 3 review
- “Nothing” doesn’t exist. Instead, there is “quantum foam”
- The Fundamental 4 Meanings of "nothing" in Science
MARCH
- Approaching the question "What was madness before psychiatry?"
- Protestant bodies, Protestant bedrooms, & our furious need for a theology thereof
Nope. Vaginas are not special sanctuaries, holy places to be kept empty of all but the divine presence in the form of the penis. I can’t believe I had to write that sentence.
- 'Zeno effect' verified: Atoms won't move while you watch
- How Does Observing Particles Influence Their Behavior?
- You Are Not a Parrot And a chatbot is not a human. And a linguist named Emily M. Bender is very worried what will happen when we forget this.
APRIL
- AI and the American Smile
- Zoinks! Tracing The History Of 'Zombie' From Haiti To The CDC
- The power and politics of the black barbershop
- The 4 fundamental meanings of “nothing” in science
- Laziness Does Not Exist
MAY
Virtually everything we do, everything we are, is transmuted now into digital information[...]—all of it observed by no one in particular, all of it reduced to data parsed for the patterns that will predict our purchases.
I’m shy, and while I was mildly concerned about what people might think of me when I began dining alone, I was more concerned about what I might think of me if I didn’t try. I didn’t want to be someone who experienced less of a city, less of life, because I was afraid. So I went.
JUNE
- Don't Trust Vanessa's Villain Edit in The Ultimatum: Queer Love
- The Ultimatum: Queer Love Gives Us the Most Dramatic Love Square Ever
- Puritanism took over online fandom — and then came for the rest of the internet
- Homestuck is the First Great Work of Internet Fiction
- Unraveling the neutrino's mysteries at the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
- Where Do Eels Come From?
Those of us who want to protect the eel in order to preserve something genuinely mysterious and enigmatic in a world of enlightenment will, in some ways, lose no matter how things turn out,
Which is to say that, as it turns out, the world’s first emo album isn’t actually as melodramatic or self-absorbed as we were primed to believe. It was a rallying cry for us to pick our feelings up off the floor, get our personal shit together, and do our part to make a lasting, meaningful political change. Is there a word for that?
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