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by Elisa Giudici TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA. MUBI By the time Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma premiered at Cannes, Jane Schoenbrun had already become something close to a generational folk hero for younger cinephiles. You...
It's 1951. The Indian government has just decided to build a new capital city for the Punjab region. You are one of the urban planners working on this project. This city will be called Chandigarh. As you build the city, there are...
I like little bespoke mechanics. Here’s one. How to stabilise a dying person If you have a medical kit, it contains five tools a tincture (d4), a tourniquet (d6), a lancet (d8), a trephine (d10), and a bonesaw (d12). When you’ve used one...
That is the title of my most recent work-in-progress, available here via SSRN, which is currently “under review” at the Review of the History of Economic Thought and Methodology. Below is the Introduction to my paper (footnotes omitted):...
Fine. I admit it. I hate most writing prompts. Why? Well, that’s a good question. I enjoy thinking up ideas for stories. But I rarely find that “traditional” writing prompts help me do that. I suspect that the skills for creating a good...
Hawaiian ʻŌkolehao is a modern version of Hawai’i’s first distilled spirit, originally distilled from a mash made from Ti roots but these days the product also includes spirits distilled from Hawaiian cane. There are historical...
A Labrador in Milton Keynes is already pressing a button to turn on his owner's lamp. Meanwhile, the rest of us are downloading apps and factory-resetting our dignity. The dog button is trying to tell us something about design — and it's...
Another quote from Dante Sisofo
I see to be in a bit of a monochrome mood lately, and I worked on three images I haven’t presented before: one from a year ago a few miles from home, one from five Mays ago in Saqánma (a.k.a. Hells Canyon), and a third from a...
I just read Robert A. Heinlein’s Double Star. I had read it in Junior High or High school, sometime in the mid-1970s, and I don’t think I’ve read it since.
Today’s only recording is Mythbusters – Peeing on the Third Rail. This is actually an episode revisiting lots of previous myths. The first one is whether covering your body with gold paint would kill you by overheating. This time it’s...
Be skeptical of sweeping stories about China, regardless of how good or bad they portray things. The technological advancements mentioned in the news may be even more profound in reality, but not as widespread as shown. The GDP growth...
I had one real goal today. That was to visit my mother in the afternoon. While doing the morning routine over the past week, my younger daughter and I had been making sure to open the gate, just in case. It was late morning when we heard...