Originally posted on Longreads:
My boyfriend and I share a love of cryptozoology and hidden places. For Valentine’s Day, he bought us matching “explorer” jackets with Nessie and Mothman patches affixed to the sleeves. We have standard hobbies, too—reading, writing, listening to music—but podcasts about Bigfoot and poring over Atlas Obscura is where things get a…
Things Are Super Awkward in Latest House of Cards Teaser
I am seriously addicted to this series!
The Daily Show Staff Talks About the Future of the Show After Jon Stewart
Can’t imagine anyone topping or ‘filling his shoes’, he’s in the stratosphere of political satire.
Free Speech Debate ‘Still Alive’ After Attack in Denmark
Free speech a cornerstone of democracy
Benedict Cumberbatch Marries Sophie Hunter
221B Baker Street needs to expand.
Voyager’s Valentine Turns 25 Today
Originally posted on Lights in the Dark:
If you’re in love with space exploration then you’ll fall for this: it’s the picture of Earth taken from the Voyager 1 spacecraft after it passed the orbit of Pluto in 1990. That image of our planet from almost 4 billion miles away inspired Carl Sagan to write…
Winter’s Wonder
I know, I know, you’re thinking “I hate winter, it’s too cold”. Me, I love winter, it’s beautiful, harsh, cold, still, bright, and full of promise. Winter levels us, it forces all in its wake to raise our game, our tolerance for cold. I like the sound that my footsteps make as they ‘crunch’ the…
#DarwinDay
No one inspired me more during my university career then Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution by means of natural selection. Although I was in the ‘sociological’ stream, I found the Darwinian paradigm (still do) more explanatory to the world around me, both social and natural, then most of the theorists upheld as the…
Blogging Birdie!
I’ve got my talons clicking the keys, very excited to be entering the world of blogging – look out world, here I am!!!
