Science has a lot to earn about the way ecosystems hold and process the Earth’s carbon, and how efforts like reforestation can help improve those systems’ effect on climate change. Two things are clear: Virgin forests sequester a lot of carbon, and humanity can’t keep clear-cutting forests and burning fossil fuels the way we have […]
Aaron Gilbreath
Why All the Warby Parker Clones Are Now Imploding
Direct-to-Consumer business are very appealing to customers and investors, but it’s challenging to make the DTC model economically viable.
The Voice Keepers
“In the recordings of the Voice-O-Graph, two collectors discover an intimate sonic history.”
Why You Should Ignore All That Coronavirus-Inspired Productivity Pressure
Our old work routines cannot carry us through self-quarantine to a time when life will resume as normal, because pandemic has irrevocably changed the world we wish to return to. Instead of working through this, work on adjusting pyschogically first.
Fathers Sway above It All
“My mother’s absence in my life has always haunted me more than my father’s abuse, which is why I suppose I wrote a novel about a mother leaving a daughter.”
Shout Out to Myspace
The site that revolutionized how people released and listened to music has died multiple deaths since its 2003 debut, but it finally gets the eulogy it deserves.
The Messy Making of a Nearly Perfect Hip-Hop Album
Music as original as Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s sounds evergreen, but originality came with a high personal cost for its maker.
The My Generation: An Oral History Of Myspace Music
When Myspace debuted in 2003, the site became a vibrant hub for musical listeners, the launching pad for many successful bands, and a model for the social media era. Then it died multiple times.
Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version
Personal volatility and musical unpredictability merged in the hip-hop artist known as ODB, and with time and help capturing the lightning in the bottle, he focused his singular style into a hip-hop masterpiece.
On Racism and Epithets
Essaying on the way white supremacy shapes life.
