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How I spent my Summer

Rethinking apocalypse and other brief reviews Rituals of Transition: Someone said: we do not live in quarters like a corporate calendar,...

Sex, Ambition and Acquisition

Content Warning: NSFW, sexy stuff, capitalist discontent 1. Microsoft Bing AI’s Shadow Self (word count: 504) From tv tropes A tech...

On the Banality of Story: the perils and pitfalls of narrative

This is a first installment in an exploratory series on storytelling in medicine, science, life. Drop a line if this interests you. “We...

Reading Hard Things: On losing the Trauma Plot

Should we read "difficult art"? What if we are tired? You can receive posts directly in your email by subscribing. Content warning:...

A Brief History of Time Travel

An essay on memory, madeleines and who tells the tale “Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having...

Book Review: Queer Eros, Class, Race and Nematodes in Brandon Taylor’s novel Real Life

The Dark Academia Aesthetic of Class Mobility You can subscribe for email updates. Plagues require equipment on multiple...

Book Review: Eco-Anxiety, Sci Fi Thrills and Cosmic Horror in Area X

Annhilation Book 1 of the Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer In medicine, fungi pose a more complicated threat than most viruses...

10 steps to Reverse Engineering Good Writing

Decoding Greatness, is a self-improvement/strategy book by Ron Freedman, Phd. Here I have adapted the framework specifically towards the...

What is Plant Medicine? A Guide in 4 Answers

Also on medium Depending on the corner of internet that the algorithm sweeps you, plant medicine can mean a few things. Here is how I...

On Automation

Jonathon Sturgeon asks in his review of Sarah Manguso’s book “whether poetry — more than autobiographical fiction, or diary, or memoir —...

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