Cartoon – Knock Knock… Who’s there?… Religion!
Author: Antarctica Journal
Alcohol Improves Joke Telling
Portion of college students who believe alcohol improves their ability to tell jokes: 3/4
Read morePoem – WATER FOR PUERTO RICO (By Elaine Nadal)
WATER FOR PUERTO RICO (A Reaction to Puerto Rico’s Struggles) Dad always said, “No te ahogues en un vaso de agua.” “It means don’t drown in a glass of water,” I’d explain to my non-Spanish-speaking friends, wanting to share the magic because, for some reason, when he recited such words, I was able to hold my breath longer underwater, […]
Read moreForced Labor
Estimated number of people held in forced labor worldwide: 21,000,000 Portion who are 18 or younger: 1/4
Read more♫ Music Review: Spaceship and “Shake Time Loose” (By Melissa R. Mendelson)
Music Review: Spaceship and “Shake Time Loose” by, Melissa R. Mendelson When I was a kid, I remember lying on top of my parents’ car, staring up into the milky way, and waiting, waiting for the stars to fall. It was summer, a cool night, and the meteor shower had arrived. And I wanted to catch a shooting […]
Read moreCartoon – Unconventional Christening
Yes, Women Are Drinking More These Days. Why?
“Trainwreck” hilariously depicts some sobering news: Alcohol consumption is on the rise among educated professional women. And in a high-pressure culture where workdays can end in rounds of drinks, collegial boozing is creating some tricky situations. For the young creatives at one Washington, D.C.-based marketing agency, grabbing a beer together is as typical as a group coffee run. And on […]
Read morePoem – Dark Dream (By David Russell)
Dark Dream Out came the swarms of shadow things To make their dead messages, To find their story-forms, Glinting chitin delighting, Reeding the pitches. Down went the depths, encased and ethered, Numbing us to touch the greater. Down went the coils of lit signs, And made the questions dark and known, And made the answers dark and known […]
Read moreVR Headsets For Chickens
■ An Iowa State University professor has developed a virtual reality headset for chickens that will fool factory-farmed hens into thinking they’re free-range. The gadget uses a special headset that lets caged chickens pad around a virtual farmyard, pecking at virtual bugs. “I did a lot of work to get the technology right,” said inventor Austin Stewart. He admits that […]
Read moreCartoon – Look What You Did
