DNA / cells / organisms
As someone who witnessed the glow of Internet dawn from its blood-red beginnings, I am continually fascinated by this giant web of information that has expanded to connect (in one way or another) all but a few minds on this planet. I love how it’s changing us. I love this bizarre feeling I get when I […]
At 3:27:11 PM on the afternoon of January 15, 2009, United Airlines pilot Captain Chesley B. Sullenburger accidentally sucked an entire flock of Canadian geese through the twin turbofan engines of his Airbus A320. The geese instantly suffocated the airplane’s engines and induced an unpowered descent towards the sunlit rooftops of New York City. Sullenberger, […]
Hot spring sunlight is beginning to appear in Vancouver. As the Earth spins 15 degrees per hour into early April, panels of fierce daylight are beginning to strafe across buildings and intersections, illuminating odd angles and skewing city lines. Increasingly, our inlets and mountaintops are awash in hot sun. Like many Vancouverites at this time […]
Many of us have woken up drunk as least once in their lives. You leap nimbly from your bed, blissfully unaware of the chemical mallet poised above your woozy brain. “Wow, I actually feel pretty good right now!” you say, unaware that you are drunk. For many, this utterance is the beginning of the end. […]
Knuckle-cracking Knuckle-cracking is a divisive ritual: some people do, some people cringe and don’t. I do- I began this satisfying staccato ritual in highschool, alongside other teen-angst palliatives like biting the inside of my cheek and making iron-on Smashing Pumpkin t-shirts. My brother Owen is one of the many who hates knuckle-cracking. I fondly remember irritating the bejesus […]