Local wireless internet helps promote the feeling that data moves through thin air, but in reality: the vast majority of international data transfers are made possible by underwater cables. These…
Our cultural anxiety about audiobooks may have deeper roots in media and educational history, dating as far back as the beginning of the Enlightenment period, when the West made a…
…Although studies reliably find that women read more than men, when a book is written for and consumed by women, or made popular by women, it is seen again as…
This story is a pretty good example of how capitalism kills innovation and how the mob and capitalism work in very similar ways.
This idea of what actually happens when things collapse is why studying the plague, the bronze age collapse, and the reformation have been giving me surprising solace. {read}
In Robin Wood’s renowned essay “The American Nightmare” he discusses the family as being the site of repression. His essay primarily focuses on how families limit expression of anything other…
In most American cities these days, it seems like there's a Chinese restaurant on every other street corner. But in the late 1800s, that ubiquity was exactly what certain white…
This two pieces of media go well together. BBC Discovery “Can Robots Truly Be Intelligent?” and Why do we give robots female names? Because we don’t want to consider their…
the story of a good boy. A very good boy. Laddie Boy, the First Dog of the United States. A wonderful, charming terrier whom Americans loved even more than they…
Feminist critic Laura Mulvey coined the term “male gaze” in 1975 to describe the ways in which women were objectified on camera when a man was behind the lens. In…