observation

3 min read 2021-12-29 20:05:00

Will public and socially acknowledged sex tapes become common?

An adult film performer has 300k followers on Twitter: it doesn’t matter which one, but I remarked to xbtusd, RPD, and another friend that she got

2 min read 2021-12-23 20:00:00

Refugees all, we in Africa are no strangers to dislocation, in many ways it is our close friend. — Bags and Stamps Welcome, Dislocation, old

3 min read 2021-12-17 23:34:40

The NASA-sponsored Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program has received the American Geophysical Union (AGU)

2 min read 2021-12-17 01:06:16

An old but valuable joke: A woman goes to the Husband Store on Fifth Avenue and, on the first floor, there are hundreds of hot guys to choose from.

2 min read 2021-12-15 20:00:00

I first met my sister one Christmas Eve, I was about to reach my maturityA long story, gaps, pain, and the ellipses that belie a longer historyOf

3 min read 2021-12-07 20:00:00

The blue bags were the detail that lingered and that you first noticedAs the security guards escorted the unfortunate souls out of the buildingThe

3 min read 2021-11-30 20:00:00

The dining philosophers problem is well known in computer scienceDealing with matters of access, it has analogues in our headlinesHumanity's

1 min read 2021-11-26 20:00:00

Inadequate protection proved to be the golden ruleTurning the sanctuary of care homes into mortuariesMeatpacking plants became the scene of betting

1 min read 2021-11-23 01:07:42

Photographer and filmmaker Jan van IJken’s photo series and film peers into the unseen world of one of the most important lifeforms on Earth:

1 min read 2021-11-18 20:00:00

Pondering a bestiary of useful idiots, a field guide to the species... I once proposed a taxonomy of useful idiots: the ignorant, those who should

1 min read 2021-11-15 09:33:12

When I was new to Indonesia and ordered a hamburger in a squalid Jakarta street-side restaurant, it was as if an elephant had taken a dump out of the

1 min read 2021-11-13 20:00:00

The urban griots in their wisdom kept things simpleThe virtue of a simple question: what's going on?Or alternately, some pithy advice: check out your

1 min read 2021-11-12 11:30:34

As an Indophile stuck in Australia during the pandemic, I’ve had a hard time making sense of what’s happening over there in our beloved

1 min read 2021-11-07 20:00:00

The lineup of Zimbabwe's football team includes Divine, Talent, Teenage and Knowledge. Marvellous is a substitute, and their coach is Sunday. The Ewe

1 min read 2021-11-03 00:05:00

"Mommy?", her eyes twinkled with a mischievous smile,"Were you born in the last century?"Promptly disarmed, we waited to discern