There’s a glass of water on my nightstand right now. I will not drink it. I never drink it. And yet, every night, I place it there like I’m preparing for a very specific, very dramatic version of myself who might awaken at 3:17am, parched, reflective, possibly mid–existential […]
There’s a particular kind of human arrogance that assumes insight belongs exclusively to us; along with taxes, existential dread, and the ability to overanalyze text messages. For a long time, scientists mostly agreed. Sure, animals could learn. They could try things, fail, try again. Trial and error. The […]
Scientists recently thawed bacteria trapped in ice for something like thirteen thousand years inside Scărișoara Cave in Romania, which is already the kind of sentence that makes me feel like humanity is poking at something that should have stayed in a locked narrative box labeled Do Not Disturb. […]
Sometimes, science is serious. Penicillin. MRI machines. Vaccines. And then sometimes science is cows dressed up as zebras. Yes, a team of researchers in Japan actually painted cows with zebra-like stripes. Why? To see if it would cut down on pesky fly bites. Turns out, it worked. The […]
Scour the news for an entirely uninteresting story. Consider how it connects to your life. Write about that. Recently, there was a news article on NPR regarding astronauts and rashes. Specifically, the article asked why some people get rashes in space? Apparently, there’s a clue in astronaut blood. […]
My mother loved giraffes. Well, she loved monkeys and penguins as well. She fed local homeless dogs and thought pigs were adorable. But her love of giraffes amused me. Her love of penguins was passed down to my son. He has over 20 stuffed penguins we have gotten […]
Every once in a while, I veer into the more psychological realm in my writing. Which makes sense given I’m psychologistmimi. Today, I will go halfway into the psychology zone. Which in all fairness to myself-who tends to digress quite often-is what I tend to do almost always. […]
1689 People: That’s what I am aiming for conversation-wise in the next month 1689. Does anyone into numerology know what that number signifies? For me, at the moment, it is the number of followers I still have to reach out to. Last December I made it a point to […]
A massive typhoon is hammering the Philippines. Nature is filled with fury as is the American public. All sorts of lawsuits have been filed and animals have gone missing. Politicians continue to attempt to bend reality to fit their will. Science has produced some interesting yet possibly scary […]
Singer Paula Cole asked “where have all the cowboys gone?”, disillusioned that things are not what they had seemed to be at first. Where is my Marlboro man? Where is his shiny gun? Where is my lonely ranger? Where have all the cowboys gone? Yippee yo, yippee yeah […]
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