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‘Observations Concerning the Role of the Anglican Funeral Service in the Murder Mystery’ by Maryann Corbett

Man that is born of woman (saith the prayer book) hath but a short time to live, especially in British detective dramas…

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Parent Assistant Referee

Parent Assistant Referee

After the game was over, the parents and kids all met at the coach’s house to have pizza and celebrate the season…

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‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which…

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‘1:6’, ‘1.8’ and ‘1:10’ by Chris Gutkind

‘1:6’, ‘1.8’ and ‘1:10’ by Chris Gutkind

Do I still belong here, fleshed-out, will anyone? My nature datafying, you’re feeling interfood’d…

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A Fitting Timepiece by Daniel Tobin

A Fitting Timepiece by Daniel Tobin

Dynamics and architecture: the very attributes required for making an Internet, a universe, an emergent God, a creation, certainly a poem…

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Her Majesty’s Inspector of Explosives and the Dynamite Rascals

Her Majesty’s Inspector of Explosives and the Dynamite Rascals

It was an “infernal machine” comprised of a clock, a pistol trigger mechanism, moving cogs and bars of a soft, chemical-smelling material…

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Unearthing Mansa Musa

Unearthing Mansa Musa

Sun of the Soil is a form of artivism that aims to engage not only local communities through street performance…

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Bubbledom

They cover the first bubble in 1720, the Latin American mining stocks bubble in the 1820s, the UK railway stocks bubble of the 1840s, the Australian land bubble of 1886-93…

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The Chewa in Malawian Prehistory

The Chewa in Malawian Prehistory

Among Juwayeyi’s most important contributions is the argument that the Maravi state predated the expansion of Indian Ocean trade into the region…

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Madras Meridian

Madras Meridian

The era’s greatest promoter of astronomy was Jai Singh II, the 18th-century raja of Jaipur…

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Jennifer Carlson: Guns, Policing, Race

Jennifer Carlson: Guns, Policing, Race

Gun militarism doesn’t exist in opposition to gun populism, but alongside it, constituting a racial-double standard…

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The Horsemen by Ethan Edwards

The Horsemen by Ethan Edwards

The Steppe sky remains…

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Oscar Mardell goes inside The Castle

The Australian High Court doesn’t need an interior at all, only an internal façade, because the power which that court embodies – far from being impregnable – is akin to that of Santa Claus…

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Mandakini Pachauri in Vienna

Mandakini Pachauri in Vienna

I first arrived here from India three long decades ago late…

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Paul Vacca: Proust and Digital Life

Paul Vacca: Proust and Digital Life

Proust would advise us to refuse the tyranny of algorithms…

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How objective was Japanese transwar fieldwork?

How objective was Japanese transwar fieldwork?

The post-1968 era inaugurated the unraveling of Japanese anthropology’s transwar consensus about its goals to produce objective, field-based research that uncovered universal laws of social development and diffusion…

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Rachel Howard: How We Voted

Rachel Howard: How We Voted

I now worship, through my computer, at a church 140 miles away, where talk of “social justice” is a normal part of nearly every sermon…

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With the Seine as its mirror and protector…

With the Seine as its mirror and protector…

The site has been holy since antiquity, perhaps explaining why Notre Dame feels spiritual, even for nonbelievers. A Druid shrine and then a pagan temple dedicated to Jupiter, the chief of the Roman gods, are believed to have stood on this spot…

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Reparations as an Enduring Social Movement

Reparations as an Enduring Social Movement

Black folk took up reparations for slavery as an enduring social movement, bequeathed from generation to generation…

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Where’s the Veg?

It’s a common enough scenario. A vegetarian has been invited to a friend’s place for dinner. The host forgets that the guest is a vegetarian, and places a pork chop in front of her. What is she to do?

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