Revisiting the link between detention and design history, 75 years after FDR’s executive order.
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A Trip to Tolstoy Farm
Even if one of the last surviving Tolstoyan communes has fallen short of Leo Tolstoy’s ideals, it’s still turned into something meaningful. It’s a place for people who don’t want to be found.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
How the Blues Conquered Tokyo
I couldn’t quite figure out why Japanese listeners had come to appreciate and savor the blues in the way that they seemed to—lavishly, devotedly. Blues is still an outlier genre in Japan, but it’s revered, topical, present. I’d spent my first couple of days in Tokyo hungrily trawling the city’s many excellent record stores, marveling […]
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The Intimacy of an Android: An Interview With Alex Mar
In her Wired cover story, Mar explores the desire to turn to a robot for comfort or companionship.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes, Science & Nature
The Planet Is Pissed and Wants You Outta Here
Massive volcanic events are the cause of most global mass extinctions. When will the next one destroy life on earth?
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The Hunt for Planet Nine
What will it take to find the biggest missing object in our solar system?
Posted inBooks, History, Nonfiction, Story
Oregon’s Racist Past
Starting in the mid-19th century, and extending through the mid-20th century, Oregon was arguably the most racist place outside the southern states, possibly even of all the states.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Nonfiction, Story
Convenience Store Woman
If the convenience store and Japanese society are so similar, why can Keiko Furukura function in one and not the other?
Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
The St. Louis Suburbs Bear the Cost of America’s Nuclear Past
After toxic waste from the Manhattan Project was illegally dumped in 1974, rare illnesses have effected the local population.
Posted inCurrent Events, Essays & Criticism, Story
Maybe We Can Make a Circle
Nicole Piasecki writes a letter to the wife of the shooter who killed her father. Part two of a three-part series on gun violence.
