While the movie is entertaining you in its unpredictable way, it is also sneaking in empathy for its subjects—and making you wonder just how human they are. The beasts have humanizing traits and a sense of natural curiosity; the youngest even has an imaginary friend. Be prepared for family ...
“The Weird Sister Collectionis a reminder that feminism doesn’t live solely in academia and activism, and in fact makes its most defiant moves at the margins of orthodoxy. The book’s mix of poetics, criticism, and pop culture is an unruly and potent brew that fizzes with life as it ...
The term “low man on the totem pole” is misleading too. It implies that being at the bottom means less importance. In reality, being at the bottom of a totem pole often means holding great significance. This phrase does a disservice to the true meaning and cultural importance of totem p...
a member of the planthoppers (Auchenorrhyncha), hails from China and its surrounding countries. One of the reasons for its off the charts threat level is its polyphagous diet. The insect feeds on the phloem of
with whom he had been corresponding about Winterbourne's "house and its particular custom" as part of his research. The train was only the first part of the journey; he still has a five-mile walk to make, which he doesn't mind. It is as "the grey chalk of dust" was being drawn ...
fact, I was a colleague of the very clever editor who first came up with the idea and I remember it well. There are hundreds of these books now, over a decade later, providing very short introductions to subjects ranging from the Avant Garde to Number Theory (and many things between the...
We moderns like to congratulate ourselves for being so much more sophisticated than the ancients, but in fact our modern world is organized exactly the same way, we only call its elements by different names. Our commercial world works the same way as the ancient Greek world of polytheism, wi...
Fun fact: Using beer topically can decrease the appearance of wrinkles, release toxins in your body, moisturize your skin, and nourish your hair. Other locations with their own quirks worth visiting: Charles Bridge and the golden rubbing dog ...
Perhaps one of the main reasons is the fact that Lynch is most often described as an artist, not a filmmaker, a title that when used in the context of movie reviews suggests he has moved beyond the mainstream position he found himself in whenTwin Peaks(1990–1) afforded him the double-...
What really makes Glimpses of the Unknown most readworthy is the fact that the stories in this book have not previously been reprinted so they're here in all their obscure glory. They range over time from the 1890s to 1929, and while Ashley admits that "not all of them evoke horror or...