Where I live, in the middle of Montana, the continent transitions fitfully from prairie to mountain, yellow bluffs marking the edge of an ancient sea. We are still linked to …
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Could AI Alleviate Multiple Sclerosis?
This post is a bit more personal than most. One of the original readers of this blog, and its most committed commenter, passed away a year ago this month, from …
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Give Your Sons Books About Girls
The title of this post is misleadingly titillating…I don’t mean that you should rush out and get your son Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds. First of all, it’s kind of an …
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Wonderful Weeds
I grew up in the middle of nowhere, so each Mother’s Day, I gathered an assortment of wildflowers, scrabbly and mismatched rather than carefully curated from a well-tended garden or …
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The Tyranny of Lawns
After almost nine feet of snow this winter, most residents of my hometown are happy to be greeting spring. Even if the change in season just means trading snow shovels …
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Americanah: American Racism Through the Eyes of an Outsider
Linguist Geoff Nunberg designated “tribalism” his 2017 word of the year, and it is a subject that Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie revisits in her latest novel Americanah. In her debut, Half …
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Eminently Hackable Humans
One of the most persistent fears about turning over tasks to machines is their susceptibility to hacking. Although briefly mentioned in a previous post on neural implants, the topic comes …
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13th: A Documentary Complement to Black Panther
“The way that we appeal to voters’ sense of fear and anxiety in our nation runs through black bodies.” Khalil Gibran Muhammad‘s powerful words, from an interview partway through the …
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Blue Apron? Get Real…and Stay Local.
Mick Mulvaney, the director of the US Office of Management and Budget, recently called the planned “Harvest Box” overhaul of the US food stamps program (SNAP) a “Blue Apron-type” proposal. …
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Black Panther Review: Equality & Empowerment
In a previous post, I lamented that women are so used to second-class status that even the mixed messages of last summer’s Wonder Woman seemed empowering merely because the superhero …
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