https://meehancrist.com/science daily 0.75 2016-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1439266839556-U9CXZY29GAZEPOPCIWWX/Science_Rubin.png Science - Arts and the Dreaming Mind (with Tim Requarth) In a small but elegant museum on Manhattan’s west side, one finds watchful Buddhas, many-limbed goddesses, and tapestries depicting religious visions. The Rubin Museum is a place where people come to learn about Himalayan art, but for three months of the year it is also a place where people come to learn about the science of the human brain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1439266839556-U9CXZY29GAZEPOPCIWWX/Science_Rubin.png Science - Arts and the Dreaming Mind (with Tim Requarth) In a small but elegant museum on Manhattan’s west side, one finds watchful Buddhas, many-limbed goddesses, and tapestries depicting religious visions. The Rubin Museum is a place where people come to learn about Himalayan art, but for three months of the year it is also a place where people come to learn about the science of the human brain. https://meehancrist.com/nytimes daily 0.75 2020-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1586893300914-BIVBDHTGU8HVGMTMUAKF/image-asset.jpeg NYTimes - What the Coronavirus Means for Climate Change Our response to this health crisis will shape the climate crisis for decades to come. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1586893300914-BIVBDHTGU8HVGMTMUAKF/image-asset.jpeg NYTimes - What the Coronavirus Means for Climate Change Our response to this health crisis will shape the climate crisis for decades to come. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1439254922141-JDMIFQDRF7SRMWA78MKA/NYTimes_Mooallem.jpg NYTimes - Recall of the Wild We are wreaking havoc on the planet. Scientists predict that half of all living species will be obliterated by the end of the century, and in this age of man-made destruction it seems obvious we should try to salvage some of what's left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1439259769569-U0IMLWW99GQ33NHXO01C/NYTimes_Birds.jpg NYTimes - From the Mouths of Babes and Birds (with Tim Requarth) Insights into these mysteries of human language acquisition are now coming from a surprising source: songbirds.   https://meehancrist.com/the-millions daily 0.75 2016-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1454368989102-LMW1337G7ZCXIR5DXG7J/Millions_Lehrer.jpg The Millions - It's All in Your Head: The Problems with Jonah Lehrer's "Imagine" These few sentences set off some unexpected alarm bells, so we decided to take a closer look at some of the science upon which Imagine is built, specifically neuroscience... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1454368989102-LMW1337G7ZCXIR5DXG7J/Millions_Lehrer.jpg The Millions - It's All in Your Head: The Problems with Jonah Lehrer's "Imagine" These few sentences set off some unexpected alarm bells, so we decided to take a closer look at some of the science upon which Imagine is built, specifically neuroscience... https://meehancrist.com/ecotone daily 0.75 2016-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1439263018855-37689U4R0C7ITDXPESXL/Ecotone_PropoerPlace.jpg Ecotone - Each in Its Proper Place I recognize a scallop-backed chair, an African mask, and a rusted chandelier with only a few mismatched crystal teardrops clinging to its emaciated arms... Adams has discovered most of these objects in Harlem, his home for nearly twenty years. Some are valuable antiques, others are not. Many of them, like the chandelier overhead, have been rescued from a future as refuse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1439263018855-37689U4R0C7ITDXPESXL/Ecotone_PropoerPlace.jpg Ecotone - Each in Its Proper Place I recognize a scallop-backed chair, an African mask, and a rusted chandelier with only a few mismatched crystal teardrops clinging to its emaciated arms... Adams has discovered most of these objects in Harlem, his home for nearly twenty years. Some are valuable antiques, others are not. Many of them, like the chandelier overhead, have been rescued from a future as refuse. https://meehancrist.com/bookforum daily 0.75 2016-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1439265971125-QKQT9NHLE60WNSEE3L7Y/Bookforum_Malabou.jpg Bookforum - The New Wounded by Catherine Malabou An act of translation from brain to mind is the holy grail of much scientific research, particularly in the nascent fields of neuropsychology and neuropsychoanalysis that Malabou so admires. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1439265971125-QKQT9NHLE60WNSEE3L7Y/Bookforum_Malabou.jpg Bookforum - The New Wounded by Catherine Malabou An act of translation from brain to mind is the holy grail of much scientific research, particularly in the nascent fields of neuropsychology and neuropsychoanalysis that Malabou so admires. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1439265673116-Q4LFB7NB7EMHNQA42IGI/Bookforum_Percy.jpg Bookforum - Bookforum Talks with Jen Percy "Fear is a tool to get people to believe a certain narrative." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1439265847957-MQTDNCKXF8Q3DSRGEE2J/Bookforum_Solnit.jpg Bookforum - Long and Winding Road One day not so long ago, Rebecca Solnit found herself with an apricot problem. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1439266989760-AV2CMI49OJ9WJ6EBAV5T/Bookforum_Winter.jpg Bookforum - Memory: Fragments of a Modern History Winter argues that the ongoing battle over how we conceptualize memory has had profound effects on our most important social institutions, on science, and on the individual. https://meehancrist.com/publications daily 0.75 2016-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1440329641036-SY39BJBQV68T1UR1WSZZ/3945_c3810d4a9513b028fc0f2a83cb6d7b50.png Nautilus - Postcards From the Edge of Consciousness Cosmonaut of my own anatomy, I go deeper and become aware of stomach and gut, the spaces carved out for food and waste and fetus, all of it pulsing as the bone case yawns open, then draws shut, with every breath. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1440329641036-SY39BJBQV68T1UR1WSZZ/3945_c3810d4a9513b028fc0f2a83cb6d7b50.png Nautilus - Postcards From the Edge of Consciousness Cosmonaut of my own anatomy, I go deeper and become aware of stomach and gut, the spaces carved out for food and waste and fetus, all of it pulsing as the bone case yawns open, then draws shut, with every breath. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1436407623911-I0FD6DN3V4LYT0X29IZM/6595_972cda1e62b72640cb7ac702714a115f.jpg Nautilus - A Fijian Village Adapts Tradition to Try to Save Its Ailing Reefs Nagigi’s problem is one we all share: How can dwindling ocean resources support a swelling human population? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1436405930583-IOLDIUB8O81YOX8X6U2L/6453_a160a01c5ced2a79bc07e2b2ef1a2ada.jpg Nautilus - Can New Research & Old Traditions Save Fiji From Ecological Collapse? We’re here to rifle through some 2,000-year-old trash, to see what clues it holds for conservation today. https://meehancrist.com/laphams-quarterly daily 0.75 2016-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1436406217919-ULDRCUHT112QQEQRIF23/dissection_image.jpg Lapham's Quarterly - Dissection I hold my breath as the top of the skull is removed. Skullcap comes to mind. The spinal cord is snipped and gloved hands reach in to grasp the wrinkled gray meat of the brain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1436406217919-ULDRCUHT112QQEQRIF23/dissection_image.jpg Lapham's Quarterly - Dissection I hold my breath as the top of the skull is removed. Skullcap comes to mind. The spinal cord is snipped and gloved hands reach in to grasp the wrinkled gray meat of the brain. https://meehancrist.com/latimes daily 0.75 2016-12-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1481036733558-41L0P7A58TJHD6BF7YTV/LATimes_GodreySmith.jpg LATimes - Exploring the origins of consciousness, cephalopod and human, with Peter Godfrey-Smith in 'Other Minds' "The mind evolved in the sea," writes Godfrey-Smith, but if water is our origin it may also be our destiny. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1481036733558-41L0P7A58TJHD6BF7YTV/LATimes_GodreySmith.jpg LATimes - Exploring the origins of consciousness, cephalopod and human, with Peter Godfrey-Smith in 'Other Minds' "The mind evolved in the sea," writes Godfrey-Smith, but if water is our origin it may also be our destiny. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1439254377471-I4MM6TLUZ2ZGR8XW0ND7/la-086641-mn-0827-najaf-5-cmc-jpg-20140525.jpg LATimes - Veteran's New Fiction Adds Needed Perspective on War Zones There is no such thing as "the veteran experience," particularly in a war on terror waged across multiple countries for more than 10 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1454263918617-36RVQX95ZB5M2YOVBVM0/image-asset.jpeg LATimes - The Miracle Cure that Wasn't: 'White Matter' on the Personal Tragedy of Lobotomy For families like Sternburg's lobotomy offered a last resort that tugged on the tangled heartstrings of compassion and self-preservation, love and fear.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1439258307982-P7WNMMW1HMLLYWNLTYL5/la-la-ca-0112-david-adam-020-jpg-20150114.jpg LATimes - The Man Who Couldn't Stop" a rich, reasonable look at OCD We begin to see OCD in relation to what is considered normal human behavior, such as daydreaming and the rituals invented by children, suggesting that OCD may be the exaggerated expression of certain traits more or less apparent in all of us.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1439261692362-NUWOIYA094RQZJTS8F09/LATimes_Jamison.jpg LATimes - Leslie Jamison connects with The Empathy Exams In her remarkable new essay collection, The Empathy Exams, Leslie Jamison looks long and hard at what it means to feel empathy. 'Empathy isn't just listening to, it's asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination.' https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1439261866215-B08BFW9R622DBFKERP3G/LATimes_MacLean.jpg LATimes - Amnesia makes David Stuart MacLean a riddle he must solve MacLean has hallucinations and memory lapses, flitting in and out of consciousness like a surrealist television show playing on a set with a haywire power button. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1439262110490-KU2EI78RONJ1F529O9OS/LATimes_Montross.jpg LATimes - "Falling into the Fire" a piercing portrait of psychiatry Lauren swallows scissors, light bulbs, batteries, bedsprings, knives. Eddie pinches pennies for plastic surgeries he can't afford and rubs his face raw with sandpaper trying to fix disfiguring acne scars that no one else sees... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1439262331676-7YGU14NJGFXD3PU8R0ZC/imgres.jpg LATimes - "The Mind's Eye" by Oliver Sacks Their stories all revolve around visual perception and language, and the relationship between those two — subjective experience and how one describes that experience — provides the real enigma at the heart of this book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1439262499654-W6S1QMXAZ33N82ATHGNT/LATimes_McCarthy.jpg LATimes - "C" by Tom McCarthy With "C," Tom McCarthy has written an avant-garde masterpiece — a sprawling cryptogram — in the guise of an epic, coming-of-age period piece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1439262641364-R77DDY3X09ZZCYMBP4IG/LATimes_Munson.jpg LATimes - "Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir" by Ander Monson But in all this fooling around with form, something serious is at stake.   https://meehancrist.com/the-believer daily 0.75 2019-04-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1556308424037-4Z8OPLPUKYQNQGFV12W7/Believer_Bruder_Blei.jpg The Believer - An Interview with Jessica Bruder and David Blei JB: “I worry very much that we will not solve the wage-gap problem, that the people who are running the robots while they’re talking about UBI [universal basic income] will still be so enamored of what they’ve created that wages will remain flat… We need a living wage. I mean, it’s as simple as that. So I worry that people will lack the work they need to support themselves while, at the same time, business leaders who live in a techno-utopia will realize too late that there’s no one left to buy their products.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1556308424037-4Z8OPLPUKYQNQGFV12W7/Believer_Bruder_Blei.jpg The Believer - An Interview with Jessica Bruder and David Blei JB: “I worry very much that we will not solve the wage-gap problem, that the people who are running the robots while they’re talking about UBI [universal basic income] will still be so enamored of what they’ve created that wages will remain flat… We need a living wage. I mean, it’s as simple as that. So I worry that people will lack the work they need to support themselves while, at the same time, business leaders who live in a techno-utopia will realize too late that there’s no one left to buy their products.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1454368576456-EI5F10HCTZIADSG9U5XB/Believer_Hughes.gif The Believer - Interview with Aaron Hughes: Artist, Veteran, Activist AH: Turn off your TVs and go to a VA hospital. Just sit there. Don’t ask anyone any questions, just go sit in the cafeteria and watch, and make a judgment about the war and about veterans. Just sit there watching. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1439264562563-T1X80TS7G1R6WWL4HXA9/Believer_Reiss.gif The Believer - Interview with Diana Reiss: Dolphin Cognition Researcher DR: Even though they look like like a fish, more like a fish than us, there is this warm-eyed mammal, this eye-to-eye contact. There's somebody in there.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1439263830761-34WPFQ9AOZAZA2F43RBL/Believer_Sukenick.gif The Believer - Houdini by Lynn Sukenick In the poetry world, where convincing a publisher to put out your book is like convincing a stranger to toss all their clothes out of an airplane, chapbooks are the currency of the young and the previously unpublished. But they are also the currency of established poets enamored with the brevity of a form which, like the novella, allows for a more compact mode of expression. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1439263958722-R4T5EAXFVWIK8JA9B0H9/Believer_DAgata.gif The Believer - The Lost Origins of the Essay by John D'Agata Every history is a story, a marshaling of evidence to support a particular reading of the past. Of the Silk Road or Nordic myth. Of Alexandria or pirates or the atom bomb. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1439264263704-YOLLKZQR18QBHNUO90RU/Believer_MacPhee.gif The Believer - Celebrate People's History and Signs of Change Taken together, these two books represent a departure from history as most of us learn it, both in form and content:Celebrate People’s History is a radical retelling of history by contemporary artists; Signs of Change is a visual record of historical events themselves.   https://meehancrist.com/n1br daily 0.75 2016-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1439264909631-Y7UNIPL0I8Y2IUVQDR9M/N1BR.png N+1BR - Nose For Decay She is fascinated by the minute—faberge eggs, a single flower, a stray thought—and often focuses her attention on the sights from which we normally avert our eyes—death and decay, rotting bodies and the limits of the flesh—but that can allow for surprising beauty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1439264909631-Y7UNIPL0I8Y2IUVQDR9M/N1BR.png N+1BR - Nose For Decay She is fascinated by the minute—faberge eggs, a single flower, a stray thought—and often focuses her attention on the sights from which we normally avert our eyes—death and decay, rotting bodies and the limits of the flesh—but that can allow for surprising beauty. https://meehancrist.com/scientific-american daily 0.75 2016-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1439266137235-KKR19KD3TRW2CN6HJWA9/SciAM_BrainsBounceBack.jpg Scientific American - How Brains Bounce Back from Physical Damage (with Tim Requarth) For most of the past century the scientific consensus held that the adult human brain did not produce any new neurons... Recent work now suggests that one role may be to help the brain recover from traumatic brain injury.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1439266137235-KKR19KD3TRW2CN6HJWA9/SciAM_BrainsBounceBack.jpg Scientific American - How Brains Bounce Back from Physical Damage (with Tim Requarth) For most of the past century the scientific consensus held that the adult human brain did not produce any new neurons... Recent work now suggests that one role may be to help the brain recover from traumatic brain injury.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1439266310290-MW9ND3QG4LENTZSYKV8T/SciAm_OldNewNeurons.jpg Scientific American - Old and New Neurons Trade Roles to Aid Memory Young granule cells help form new memories, but as they get older they switch roles to helping recall the past. Newer granule cells pick up the slack, taking on the role of helping to form new memories. https://meehancrist.com/new-gallery daily 0.75 2019-12-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1556304208384-5F64DQCXQ27QXRMLBOXI/The_New_Republic_WallaceWells_Rich.jpeg The New Republic - Down to Earth: Why is the story of climate catastrophe so hard to tell? At the very least, these are unprecedented times that call for new kinds of narratives—or perhaps new forms, entirely—that help make sense of our interrelated lives on a warming planet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1556304208384-5F64DQCXQ27QXRMLBOXI/The_New_Republic_WallaceWells_Rich.jpeg The New Republic - Down to Earth: Why is the story of climate catastrophe so hard to tell? At the very least, these are unprecedented times that call for new kinds of narratives—or perhaps new forms, entirely—that help make sense of our interrelated lives on a warming planet. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1439260546111-6XTUM0Y3865HF5OLTA25/TNR_RatsWhoGiggle.jpg The New Republic - Rats Who Giggle Rather than being dismissed as anthropomorphic flapdoodle, animal cognition has now emerged as a vibrant field of respectable scientific inquiry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1439260648457-B82FYO0ISXV2QC7CMZGL/TNR_Flynn.png The New Republic - Why IQs Rise (with Tim Requarth) In the mid-'80s, the political philosopher James Flynn noticed a remarkable but puzzling trend: for the past century, IQ scores in every industrialized nation have been steadily rising.   https://meehancrist.com/storyquarterly daily 0.75 2017-06-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1456083022283-8YYGRLBJ33Q5ZMYVNVI9/StoryQuarterly.jpg StoryQuarterly - 10-Pointers Pattern, of course, can also mean method. How to spin the silk that will make the dress. Best practices in caterpillar husbandry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1456083022283-8YYGRLBJ33Q5ZMYVNVI9/StoryQuarterly.jpg StoryQuarterly - 10-Pointers Pattern, of course, can also mean method. How to spin the silk that will make the dress. Best practices in caterpillar husbandry. https://meehancrist.com/books-contributing-author daily 0.75 2017-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1454265320103-ABRGUSMSW1N549M7NGO7/Book_Should_I_Go_toGradSchool.jpg Books: Contributing Author - Should I Go to Grad School: 41 Answers to an Impossible Question (Bloomsbury, 2014) "It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends," Joan Didion says at the start of "Goodbye to All That." But the opposite is often true: it is easy to see the ends of things, and harder to see the beginnings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1454265320103-ABRGUSMSW1N549M7NGO7/Book_Should_I_Go_toGradSchool.jpg Books: Contributing Author - Should I Go to Grad School: 41 Answers to an Impossible Question (Bloomsbury, 2014) "It is easy to see the beginnings of things, and harder to see the ends," Joan Didion says at the start of "Goodbye to All That." But the opposite is often true: it is easy to see the ends of things, and harder to see the beginnings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1454688727817-HPXT85T5KGFZK50JB9N5/image-asset.jpeg Books: Contributing Author - The Where, The Why, The How: 75 Artists Illustrate the Wondrous Mysteries of Science (Chronicle Books, 2012) "Illusions"; "Neurons"; "Plasticity" with Tim Requarth As recently as the late 1990s, researchers proved that new neurons appear in the adult human brain, challenging long-held assumptions about learning, memory, ageing, and the whole architecture of the self. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1456083514052-OF59IHG8YQ292AGKEVQK/Book_McSweeneys.jpg Books: Contributing Author - The Art of McSweeney's (Chronicle Books, 2010) She handed me copies of a few reviews that worked well - Gary Lutz on The Pornographer's Poem, a poetry review by Stephen Burt, a few others - and basically said, "See what's going on here? This works. We want more of this." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1490974195745-P0PWNOYOP0ZG3AWT7X8D/Monson_HowWeSpeak_cover_9781566894579.jpg Books: Contributing Author - How We Speak To One Another (Coffee House Press, 2017)   Elision is not the same thing as distortion, though it can result in distortions, some of which may be more truthful than anyone’s unabridged whole. https://meehancrist.com/featured daily 0.75 2020-04-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1583338676658-5CEX837CFI9TK9GQPBUK/LRB_WinterLecture.jpg FEATURED - Is it okay to have a child? London Review of Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1583338676658-5CEX837CFI9TK9GQPBUK/LRB_WinterLecture.jpg FEATURED - Is it okay to have a child? London Review of Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1586962543183-L4XG18CFPHTC1K6DU1BS/NYT_Opinion_CoronvirusClimate.jpg FEATURED - What the Coronavirus Means for Climate Change The New York Times https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1541456838059-GVU1M5YCFEWWC7HUCSFQ/75.jpg FEATURED https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1556304595891-EV9XUDMGLAS4DN4J4KKF/The_New_Republic_WallaceWells_Rich.jpeg FEATURED - Down to Earth: Why is the story of climate catastrophe so hard to tell? The New Republic https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1517492540329-AKWEJCJKKO8NJE7HGGDW/TheNation_Forensic-img.jpg FEATURED - Forensic Science Put Jimmy Genrich in Prison for 24 Years. What if It Wasn’t Science? The Nation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1456082039914-JEL3PG8EQBOOYH5H8NLW/StoryQuarterly.jpg FEATURED - 10-Pointers StoryQuarterly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1458598262919-M4UV55YVM2KZZS035EBK/TheAtlantic_3D_Coral_Climate.jpg FEATURED - The Quest to Save Coral Reefs TheAtlantic.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1456081141299-ZTPZEPA7ZVT0P8OSCYZH/StoryQuarterly.jpg FEATURED - 10-Pointers, StoryQuarterly Pattern, of course, can also mean method. How to spin the silk that will make the dress. Best practices in caterpillar husbandry. https://meehancrist.com/the-new-yorker daily 0.75 2016-05-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1462123254308-2Y3EANE4Z88L4K90PCH1/NYer_Olm.jpg The New Yorker - What's Behind Slovenia's Love Affair with a Salamander If the olm eventually disappears, Slovenians will have to wrestle with a new national identity. They will no longer be the country of dragons but the country where the dragons died. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1462123254308-2Y3EANE4Z88L4K90PCH1/NYer_Olm.jpg The New Yorker - What's Behind Slovenia's Love Affair with a Salamander If the olm eventually disappears, Slovenians will have to wrestle with a new national identity. They will no longer be the country of dragons but the country where the dragons died. https://meehancrist.com/the-atlantic daily 0.75 2017-02-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1486762927749-MGQD02SM0BQWCOEJ7GCE/TheAtlantic_rhetoric_climate.jpg The Atlantic - How the New Climate Denial is Like the Old Climate Denial The recent shift in conservative rhetoric exploits legitimate scientific uncertainty that most scientists agree is irrelevant to crafting responsible climate policy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1486762927749-MGQD02SM0BQWCOEJ7GCE/TheAtlantic_rhetoric_climate.jpg The Atlantic - How the New Climate Denial is Like the Old Climate Denial The recent shift in conservative rhetoric exploits legitimate scientific uncertainty that most scientists agree is irrelevant to crafting responsible climate policy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1458597687679-AZNIK8V1QU7J96X4X9LT/TheAtlantic_3D_Coral_Climate.jpg The Atlantic - The Quest to Save Coral Reefs The real hope is that some corals survive long enough for human civilization to wean itself from a carbon-based economy... 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Currently, 1 in 4 doctors in the US is a DO. https://meehancrist.com/tin-house daily 0.75 2017-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1488811295762-G6LGRD6826C4E2Q8PKY9/Tin_House.jpg Tin House - Methods The tissue of a living brain is soft, like custard. Put a finger to it and it gives. Blast a bullet through it and it splatters. Removed fresh from the skull, a human brain will quickly succumb to the pull of its own weight, slumping out of shape like warm Jell-O. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1488811295762-G6LGRD6826C4E2Q8PKY9/Tin_House.jpg Tin House - Methods The tissue of a living brain is soft, like custard. Put a finger to it and it gives. Blast a bullet through it and it splatters. Removed fresh from the skull, a human brain will quickly succumb to the pull of its own weight, slumping out of shape like warm Jell-O. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1507403653690-6U4RIS9C1ZUNEP41FDZZ/Meehan-Crist-Essay.jpg Tin House - 10 Thoughts on Traces To trace is also to draw or sketch. Create from clues with care, as what you read in(to) the snow can take on a life of its own, rough beasts of twig and ice tapping tattoos on the inside of your skull. https://meehancrist.com/new-gallery-1 daily 0.75 2022-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1663172291186-SYEQ8VKG37K5N78AAWAG/LRB_Roe_2022.jpeg LRB - Prejudice Rules: LRB contributors on the overturning of Roe v. Wade Elif Batuman, Edna Bonhomme, Hazel V. Carby, Linda Colley, Meehan Crist, Anne Enright, Lorna Finlayson, Lisa Hallgarten and Jayne Kavanagh, Sophie Lewis, Maureen N. 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McLane, Erin Maglaque, Gazelle Mba, Azadeh Moaveni, Toril Moi, Joanne O’Leary, Niela Orr, Lauren Oyler, Susan Pedersen, Jacqueline Rose, Madeleine Schwartz, Arianne Shahvisi, Sophie Smith, Rebecca Solnit, Alice Spawls, Amia Srinivasan, Chaohua Wang, Marina Warner, Bee Wilson, Emily Witt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1663172079325-1K9VZPUJUT61MOCLQP6L/LRB_Ukraine_2022.jpeg LRB - Day 5, Day 9, Day 16: Responses to the Invasion of Ukraine Sofia Andrukhovych, Neal Ascherson, Ilya Budraitskis, James Butler, Andrew Cockburn, Meehan Crist, Sheila Fitzpatrick, Peter Geoghegan, Jeremy Harding, Owen Hatherley, Abby Innes, Mimi Jiang, Thomas Jones, Laleh Khalili, Jackson Lears, Donald MacKenzie, Thomas Meaney, James Meek, Pankaj Mishra, Azadeh Moaveni, Jan-Werner Müller, Vadim Nikitin, Jacqueline Rose, Jeremy Smith, Daniel Soar, Olena Stiazhkina, Vera Tolz, Daniel Trilling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1610380076613-AX97CS4HPI6IWFP7FUEO/LRB_Lovelock_2021.jpg LRB - Our Cyborg Progeny Novacene is about what is left once you have given up on humanity’s ability to curb a runaway climate, but you still have faith in the future of life on Earth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1583338279406-Y7V5IZMLPNQ7USOYG5XS/LRB_WinterLecture.jpg LRB - Is it OK to have a child? The polar icecaps are melting. Is it OK to have a child? Australia is on fire. Is it OK to have a child? My house is flooded, my crops have failed, my community is fleeing. Is it OK to have a child? It is, in a sense, an impossible question. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1574107667852-74UTB1UA4XZZS3YND8QO/LRB_Kincade.jpg LRB - Diary: California Burns As I watched the car navigate this hellscape, I realised that the scene was familiar. It looked just like a video I saw after the Camp Fire. That video had left me shaken. This one did not. I’d already assimilated what was, a year earlier, an unimaginable horror. As we glide along the path of our own destruction, this is how we normalise it – one tweet at a time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1564587542233-Z5HXBVRVP3X4KTERZNHC/LRB_Carson.jpg LRB - A Strange Blight There will be no Rachel Carson for the climate crisis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1541451905251-G0TENEESN493TY6UL38S/collections-3-front_1024x1024%402x.jpg LRB - LRB Collections 3. The Flood: Writing About Rising Seas The world has always been ending. From The Epic of Gilgamesh to the dire warnings of the latest IPCC report, the prospect of our annihilation has always been with us, and the warning signs are often written in water. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1541452312563-JXJ3D7IZC79GX1SXJUNW/cov4020.jpg LRB - Race doesn't come into it When you look at heredity in terms of genes, using genes alone to define kinship (or even to draw strict boundaries round what it means to be human) starts to seem a little dubious. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/522ca95de4b0d3c39ccdb6fe/1518724192807-Y08AGOOTYIJ9V5E3Q8VJ/LRB_Goodell.jpg LRB - Besides, I'll be dead If humans stopped using fossil fuels entirely by 2050, we might face two to three feet of sea level rise by the end of the century. Instead of 4.9 feet. Or 11 feet. But the water will come. 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