Biology teachers around the world commonly introduce their students to the concept of 'trophic cascades' with an example from Yellowstone National Park in the United States. Read more ›
It's second generation, which emerged in the 1940's - Howard Nemerov, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Delmore Schwartz, Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht, John Berryman, among many others - would fuse these techniques with postwar malaise, and an interest in psychoanalysis and existentialism, to produce works that often depended on minor scandalousness, from the incorporation of impolite words like \"public hair\" in an otherwise traditional sonnet, to the \"confession,\" in wel... Read more ›
Living cells constantly exchange ions (i.e., charged particles) via the thin barrier that surrounds their interior, known as the outer membrane. Neuroscientists and medical researchers have long been trying to devise effective methods to measure this exchange of ions, which is known to be associated with communication between neurons and various other crucial physiological processes. Read more ›
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In honor of our new favorite not-quite-holiday, Vogue has put together a list of some offbeat, disturbing, terrifying, and otherwise classic horror films set during the summertime. Read more ›
Review of Joshua Jones Lofflin, “Flekke,” Flash Fiction Online 151 (June 2026): 8-10 — Purchase here. Reviewed by Sara L. Uckelman. Content note: Infertility, infidelity. After having spent many years now review speculative fiction on this blog, I’ve learned that there are many things that I will forgive in a story if it is in… Read more ›
This is a collection of short stories by one of Ireland’s best playwrights. I think you can tell that these stories were written by someone who’s at home with the stage. The dialogue really shines. And some of the stories feel like scenes in a play. But that’s no bad thing. If most short stories are like mini-novels, why not have short stories that are like mini-plays? Some of the stories are very short indeed, just long enough to convey the mood of the piece. That mood is often wistful, mela... Read more ›
Jami Gold's Writing Worksheets: Help for all writers, from newbies to experts and from plotters to pantsers. Read more ›
NEW RESOURCES The Decoder: Website “In the Weights” shows whether AI models know who you are. “Those ‘weights’ are billions of numerical values where AI models encode their knowledge. If you show […] Read more ›
The Road, a sci-fi film starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron, is based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning book, but failed to pull in audiences. Read more ›
If you’re a software developer in Japan, you may wonder if the JLPT is worth your time. Here’s my take on the exam, and who it’s really good for. Read more ›
Three shipwrecks lying deep beneath the waters off southwestern Turkey are helping archaeologists piece together the story of Byzantine trade across the eastern Mediterranean. The vessels, known as Knidos F, Knidos L, and Knidos N, were found near the ancient port city of Knidos on the Datça Peninsula. Researchers studied the wrecks using remotely operated […] Read more ›
After a wolf was found in a parking lot in Skopje, a persistent problem has been highlighted again: North Macedonia has no suitable place for rehabilitating wild animals kept illegally as pets or rescued from injury. Read more ›
The song, which features three girl groups under K-pop giant Hybe sub-labels, is a somewhat rare moment of cross-group collaboration in the K-pop industry. Read more ›
I thought about doing something for , but I was having trouble coming up with video game opinions I felt strongly enough about to publish in manifesto form. Then I had the idea, "what if I wrote my manifesto in text adventure form?" It seemed like a strong concept: I've wanted to make a proper text adventure for a long time. It's a format I've toyed with as long as I've been making games, even going so far as attempting to write my own very cruddy parser back in the Apple ][ days1 (I didn't g... Read more ›
Bilingual brains store concepts on a single, shared semantic map inside the hippocampus, using distinct clusters of language-specific neurons to navigate the map from different perspectives for seamless linguistic switching. Read more ›
Bukit Mertajam MP Steven Sim has once again touched the hearts of many with a heartwarming story of how he was able to help a former lecturer with his medical bills. The story was shared in a Facebook post by Sim, who recounted the sequence of events involving him and his former lecturer, Dr Kamal. [...] Read more ›
I just finished The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening for the third or fourth time. Every few years I'll go back and see how much of it I can figure out with... Read more ›
Yet underneath the royal trappings, Diana's life was no fairy tale. From the time she was born, her life was difficult, not financially, but psychologically. Still, she carried the weight of her family's expectations and then the world's expectations like a champ- until she couldn't. Then again, Diana's story contains elements of many stories we've heard before: the beautiful princess, absent parents, betrayal, a stiff upper lip, longing for love, and even a wicked stepmother. Maybe Princess ... Read more ›