A Vagina By Any Other Name…
Vagina: noun (plural vaginas or vaginae /-nē, -nī/) the muscular tube leading from the external genitals to the cervix of the uterus in women and most female mammals. Just when you think...
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Environmental Security and Global Warming
Back in 2007 the Carnegie Council held a symposium on environmental security, in which a number of academics working or thinking about this question had submitted related papers, with the featured piece...
I want an Ichthyosaurus
Yes that’s right, I want an Ichthyosaurus. I mean, reptile-fish ancient madness, what’s not to love? And it was discovered by Mary Anning, a quite interesting British fossil collector and overlooked but...
Itadakimasu: A Haiku for Takoyaki
“Itadakimasu” welcome to our feast give thanks, take thanks, we are one creamy cosmic tang I’m not sure how this all started, if there even is a beginning. There’s something about food, things...
The Biopolitics of Mexican Drug Cartels
While I’ve written about US-Mexican border politics before, I even did a Masters thesis on border politics, the state of affairs today in Northern Mexico is rapidly spiraling out of control. As...
Cement – The Hidden Killer
As Madeleine Rubenstein noted in a recent post at the Earth Institute, one of the hidden killers of the industrial world, as well as a major point-source of CO2 pollution, is concrete...
