Why do dogs walk in circles? Why did animals evolve to breathe air? Why do tropical cyclones rotate? Why was the Scopes Trial called the Monkey Trial? Why do conifers have needle like leaves? Why are western lowland gorillas important?
In 2020, we experienced a much-needed reckoning with systemic racism in America and there's been a lot of really important conversations that have come out from it. How do you think we can keep the conversations and activism going, especially when things seem to get better,...
In most metal circles, blind imitation is frowned upon. When it comes to doom, the goal is to imitate Black Sabbath as closely as possible and no guitarist has come as close to matching Tony Iommi’s riffing might than Matt Pike as part of Sleep. Between tone, attack and the feeling i...
In that crystal thought time in MexicoSitting in a chair of bamboo, sipping grenadine Straining my eyes for a surfacing submarine Kingdoms of ants walk across my feet I'm a-shakin' in my seat in MexicoGrasshoppers creaking in the velvet jungle night Microscopic circles in the fluid of my ...
What shall I do? I should be polite. I should study hard. I should capful and helpful. I should walk in the corridors. I should throw rubbish in the bin. I should be quiet in the library. I shouldn’t walk and run on the grass. I shouldn’ t throw rubbish on the floor. I ...
might name the various reality show contestants betraying each other in their attempt to avoid being “voted off the island”; Dr. House, who seeks a diagnosis with complete indifference and even hostility toward his patients’ feelings; the womanizing character played by Charlie Sheen on the ...
"Unfortunately," says the IOC, "this did not help the gladiators involved, as boxing matches of the era usually ended with the death of one of the contestants."Modern day boxers, thankfully, do not have to worry about being hit in the face with metal studs but the sport is still ...
I have said that in a fantasy novel, the magic must work in that world as surely as gravity does in ours. But how many people in our world understand gravity absolutely? We walk about without slipping off the earth, birds aren’t flung into the Milky Way, and tall buildings, like tree...