There are animals that are also plants.
Elysia Chlorotica is a slug that looks like a leaf. She's the one on the top left in the image above.
Part of what makes a plant a plant is that it can make...
Frenchman Jules Allix, in the mid-nineteenth century, popularized a kind of organic Internet made out of snails.
Drawing upon the physician Franz Mesmer’s theory of “animal magnetism,” which...
In 2009, a journalist by the name Rob Walker and Joshua Glenn, bought 200 objects from eBay. These were cheap trinkets, the average price for each was no more than a few dollars.
They then called...
A couple of weeks ago, I had dinner with an aspiring content creator.
We’ll call him Mike.
He’s been creating content for three years, but has struggled to build an audience.
When I asked...
The regrettable consequence of justifying leisure only in terms of its usefulness for other things is that it begins to feel vaguely like a chore—in other words, like work in the worst sense of...
The class would meet every two weeks.
Convicts would discuss literature alongside the judge who had sentenced them and their probation officers.
Failures to show up to class or do the reading...
