June 13-17, 2016
Christie thought she was from nowhere–until an internet quiz put her in her place.
The novel Frankenstein, Michelle writes, “can be read a warning of the perils of human hubris and a brilliantly imaginative response to a global disaster.” Will we take its lessons and inspiration to heart in the face of our own monstrous creation, climate change?
J-Shame: “It hits when your beat is way out of synch with a big tragic thing that’s on everyone’s mind,” says Jennifer.
Right now, detecting gravitational waves is thrilling. Someday soon, it might be a snooze.”That’s how science at its best proceeds,” Richard says. “The outlandish becomes commonplace, the impossible predictable.”
Guest Bryn Nelson writes an ode to a gay bar, and to Orlando: “And if we as a country want to ever begin considering how to put the pieces back together and keep it from happening again and again and again, whether in a gay bar or an African-American church or a Jewish community center or a Sikh temple or a movie theater or a high school or a college campus, it’s important to remember that facts matter. That words matter. That history matters.”
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Candlelight vigil at the Stonewall Inn for victims of the Pulse nightclub massacre, courtesy of Elisa G Schneider, via Flickr.