Author: PerchSpective

No issue is either black or white, encouraging discussion and asking eveyone to look at issues from all angles and with an open mind. PerchSpective champions the protection and conservation of the natural world.
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Found: A Lost Continent! (Really) — TIME

You’d think it would be hard to misplace an entire continent, what with the mountains and trees and all that other hard-to-miss stuff. Now, however, it seems that one of Earth’s continents indeed went missing. The good news is, it’s at last been found, lying below the waters of the Indian Ocean, beneath the tiny,… via …

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Here be dragons… and dungeons

I was never a Dungeons and Dragons person, but as a nerd, seems like they’ve always been nearby. I would not have expected a Venn diagram overlapping the D&D nerds I know — delightful, gentle weirdos who like elves and other imaginary creatures — with high security prisoners. Elisabeth de Cleer wrote about one such […] …

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Review: I Am Not Your Negro Shows How Far We Only Think We’ve Come

In an era when civilized discourse has gone the way of the flip phone, novelist, essayist and playwright James Baldwin—as heard and seen in Raoul Peck’s bracing documentary I Am Not Your Negro—is like an ambassador from a lost time. The movie is an imagining of an ambitious book Baldwin started to write but never… via …

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