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December 2018

  1. Redux: Until the Bitter End
  2. Winter Theme Week: Why Is Falling So Funny?
  3. Winter Theme Week: Consensual Hallucination
  4. Winter Theme Week: Ice is the Worst
  5. Winter Theme Week: Below the Snow
  6. Winter Theme Week: Cold Hands, Warm Space Heater
  7. Abstruse Goose: Tradeoff
  8. Seal is Alive and Well
  9. Looking at Lichen in 2018
  10. Redux: The Undead: A Holiday Rant
  11. Holiday Screen Guide
  12. Holiday Reading Guide
  13. Redux: Marvin and the System
  14. A Repatriation
  15. Slow comet
  16. Oh, To Follow the Road That Leads Away From Everything
  17. How much does it cost to save a species? Less than you might think.
  18. Little Lights
  19. Redux: Sleep Aids
  20. They Paved the Maya World and Put Up a Parking Lot

November 2018

  1. The End of Animal Farming? A Q&A with Jacy Reese
  2. I Was Going to Write This Post
  3. Missing Pieces
  4. Redux: The Financially Damaging Myth of No Effort
  5. Fellowship #2: Calibration
  6. Redux: Weapons-Grade Private Enterprise
  7. Redux: The Mark We Leave
  8. We walk on waves; they fly below
  9. Mary Poppins Is An Anarchist In Strict-Nanny Disguise
  10. Singing Our Hearts Out
  11. Elves in the Balance: An interview with naturalist David Mizejewski
  12. My Daughter and the Not-Perfect Bunny
  13. Redux: Goodbye to the Friend I Never Met
  14. Redux: An interview with David Grinspoon, author of Earth in Human Hands
  15. There are Two Kinds of People: Those Who Make Their Beds and Those Who Don’t
  16. On Food Pills And Legacy
  17. Here I Am
  18. Fellowship #1: This Embedding Business
  19. Not About Voting But For the Love of God, Go Vote! Vote!
  20. Continental Drifting
  21. Apocalypse, in costume
  22. Guest Post: The Power of Water and Its Absence

October 2018

  1. Quirky Little Nature Essays Don’t Seem Quite Right Today
  2. Under the Knife
  3. Bad Moon on the iPhone
  4. When Is Screen Addiction Actually Addiction?
  5. In which I talk myself–and you–into going for a walk
  6. Outdoors After Dark
  7. This is your brain on the word “actually”
  8. Project Purgatory, Or, My Life As a Retriever
  9. Fellowship: Dispatches from a real-time evolution lab
  10. Redux: Ask Your Doctor, Much Good It Will Do You
  11. Abstruse Goose: Flight of the Good Ideas
  12. Redux: In Visibility
  13. Destruction Can Be An Act of Creation
  14. Announcing: A Science-Themed Peeps Contest
  15. Green
  16. Everything Is Terrible So Here Are Some Animals Playing Fetch
  17. An Open Letter to Whoever the Hell Is In Charge of the Green Stuff in My Backyard
  18. Redux: A Death In the Forest
  19. Editor’s Note
  20. Pink Is Not Her Color
  21. Neurowars
  22. I Need A Hobby
  23. A Weekend at the Club
  24. Short, and on the Battle of Maldon

September 2018

  1. The Last Word
  2. Redux: A storyteller, a shooter
  3. No empty earth
  4. Landsat Is The Perspective We Need Right Now
  5. The Pawpaw – A Local Fruit
  6. Redux: Hidden in this picture
  7. This Is America
  8. Redux: Ass Holes in the Desert
  9. Be an Arc Bender
  10. Ed Marston Showed Up
  11. Time Will Tell
  12. The Last Word
  13. Redux: The Internet Is a Series of Lead Tubes
  14. Abstruse Goose: pop phys
  15. Redux: Garwin: The Movie
  16. Lost Creeks
  17. Redux: Why dating is a lot like this animal guidebook I bought at a thrift store
  18. The Last Word
  19. Abstruse Goose: A Tale of One City
  20. Midnight in a Sleepy City: The comic wildlife guide
  21. Redux: Silver Lining
  22. Redux: Unwelcome Worm
  23. I Don’t Like Parenting
  24. The Last Word

August 2018

  1. Bennu: The Hype is Real
  2. Redux: Spoetry
  3. Fiction, part 2: Multiverse in the balance
  4. Redux: New Yorkers, I Am Watching You
  5. Redux: Kill the Sprickets, Kill Them All
  6. The Last Word
  7. Guest Post: Geology 101
  8. Redux: Hard Times in the Younger Dryas
  9. Redux: The Flower of Dangerous Love
  10. Rejoice, For Mars Retrograde Is Finally Almost Over
  11. Redux: On the Path of Totality
  12. The Last Word
  13. Where the Streets Have Two Names
  14. Good Bones and Weltschmerz
  15. This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
  16. Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves
  17. Redux: Friend Me
  18. The Last Word
  19. Redux: Who’s afraid of Roko’s Basilisk?
  20. On Beavers, Nature’s Perfect Tech Analogy
  21. Fleeting impressions of Puerto Vallarta
  22. Guest Post: Forgotten Stories
  23. The Last Word
  24. Guest Post: Downpour in a dry land
  25. Redux: My Daughter, the Dinosaur
  26. Redux: What’s So Great About Walking

July 2018

  1. We were warned
  2. Redux: A Worm Breeds in Brooklyn
  3. The Last Word
  4. Snark Week: American Carnage
  5. Snark week: Beware the bone breakers, and other warnings about seabirds
  6. Snark Week: The Entire, Horrible Insect Kingdom, Especially Chiggers
  7. Snark Week: The cat that jumped the shark
  8. Snark Week: An Underground, Organized Crime Syndicate
  9. Welcome to Snark Week 2018!
  10. The Last Word
  11. Guest Post: The Candi Cane Cooper Caper, or, The Mathematics of Dr. Dolittle
  12. Support Democracy, Subscribe to Your Local Paper
  13. Guest Post: This Isn’t the First Time Central American Children Have Been Taken Away
  14. To My Companion Who Has Faithfully Returned
  15. The Last Word
  16. Cloud Cover
  17. The Misery of Kettlebells and Writing
  18. What I Would Have Posted on Facebook, If I Were Posting on Facebook
  19. Redux: Peter Pan Complex
  20. No Mow Summer
  21. The Last Word
  22. Pyrophilia
  23. A Bitcoin Dummy Has Questions
  24. Soothing Yourself, Online
  25. Flag Waving and Fireworks
  26. Attention & Executive Function: Beware

June 2018

  1. The Last Word
  2. Worshipping the Sun
  3. Redux: Not all stories are words, not all maps are pictures
  4. Save the Main-Street Forest
  5. My Two-Decade Sunglasses
  6. Egg Drop
  7. The Last Word
  8. How Did I Not Know About the Hippo Bill?
  9. Easy on the Eyes
  10. Silence of the Sands
  11. The Wolverine That Wasn’t
  12. In praise of my tent
  13. The Last Word
  14. Redux: Newsprint is dead. Long live newsprint!
  15. World Cup Bad Announcer Bingo
  16. Redux: When science feels like elegy in advance
  17. On Vulnerability
  18. Get in the Car, We’re Leaving (for early Fathers Day)
  19. The Last Word
  20. Abstruse Goose: Cosmic Backyard
  21. Powerless And Fully Dark
  22. Hello, I’m Back, Did You Miss Me?
  23. Loose Ends
  24. Redux: Fasting – The New Fad Diet?
  25. The last word
  26. Guest Post: What’s the Story with Puerto Rico’s Death Toll?

May 2018

  1. The Third Annual Slime Crisis Conference
  2. Descartes’ robot daughter and the zombie problem
  3. Email is an Untamable Beast, 2018 edition
  4. In the “Synthetic Age,” can technology save nature?
  5. The Last Word
  6. Redux: Much As I Loved It, I’m Not Going Back
  7. The Joys of Ghostwriting
  8. Guest* Post: The Scientist Who Became Obsessed with Magic Lanterns
  9. Redux: Meal, Worm
  10. Redux: Doom and the Dogmometer
  11. The Last Word
  12. To The Moon, For the Last Refuge of Human Knowledge
  13. A Skeptic Limps Into a Reflexology Session
  14. Abstruse Goose: The Naked Intellect
  15. Redux: How to Name a Caribou
  16. Butterflies can adapt to a humanized world–and that’s worth celebrating
  17. The Last Word
  18. I Know Astrology Is Bullshit, But I Can’t Stop Reading My Horoscope
  19. End stage capitalism in the multiverse
  20. How Things End
  21. And then there was weed
  22. Home/Not-Home
  23. The Last Word
  24. The Way the Earth Shapes Us
  25. The ocean mummies
  26. Heartland Driving is Good for the Soul
  27. Redux:Vaccines, Viruses, and the Anti-Vax Movement

April 2018

  1. Redux: The Problem with Good People
  2. The Last Word
  3. Redux: Funny Bird
  4. Dinner With Famous Women
  5. Regarding INC5760131: How to Navigate the Reply-All Apocalypse
  6. Who’s Afraid of Roko’s Basilisk?
  7. Ideas Are A Bucket of Eels
  8. The Last Word
  9. Cheerleading and the Latin Trivium
  10. Guest Post: Ballooning Spiders
  11. Redux: What Destruction Has Wrought
  12. Redux: The Map Box
  13. Redux: Oh Spring!
  14. The Last Word
  15. Redux: A Penis Shaped Like a Musical Instrument
  16. Ass Holes in the Desert
  17. Science Journalist Has Complete Thought About Procreation
  18. Redux: Cinderella and the Cinema Hangover
  19. Why I’m Blogging Again
  20. The Last Word
  21. Why are people getting scarlet fever again?
  22. Guest Post: Astronomer’s Telegram Rediscovers Mars
  23. Ode to materialism
  24. We Did Not Go Back to the Moon, Because It Is Hard

March 2018

  1. Last Word
  2. The Hidden Risks of Snot Sucking
  3. Redux: Dirty Norwegians
  4. Redux: Resistance Begins at Home
  5. Feral daffodils
  6. Mary Anning, Paleontolopeep
  7. The Last Word
  8. My March 2 Nor’easter
  9. When Friendship was Different
  10. Pyramids, Hidden Tunnels, and All the Best Mysteries
  11. Redux: The secret placebo experiment we call homeopathy
  12. Finding the words
  13. The Last Word
  14. A Vocabulary for the Almost-Disappeared
  15. Redux: In Defense of the Antivaxxer
  16. Dig at Homolovi
  17. Listening to the Weather
  18. Every decision my kids made me make in one day
  19. The Last Word
  20. With Hair Like New Pennies? Thoughts on Describing People
  21. Redux: Pro-Tip: Don’t Fall in the Thames
  22. An update for Robert Boyle
  23. The Joyful Communal Companions of Chile
  24. Science Metaphors (cont.): Sub-Virial
  25. The Last Word
  26. Another Day on Red Mountain Pass
  27. Guest Post: Counting Backwards

February 2018

  1. Whatever Trees
  2. Leading the Bedtime Rebellion
  3. Baby Steps With Baby Words
  4. The Last Word
  5. How We Broke up with Our Phones (Sort Of)
  6. Guest Post: Ethnicity and Entrée in an Environmental Wasteland
  7. Last Days of the Dog
  8. When life hands you fake news, make Kayfabe
  9. Redux: N is for Norman, eaten by a lioness
  10. The Last Word
  11. I Hope You Can Keep It A Secret
  12. Following the Fall Line
  13. Weird Things I’ve Seen in the Sky
  14. The Screamers of Artist Point
  15. Defending Government-Subsidized Performance Art
  16. The Last Word
  17. Tenuous Memories of Driving on Ice
  18. To Drink Or Not To Drink?
  19. Amazon Alexa fanfic
  20. Shifting Baselines in the Outback
  21. Fukushima’s legacy in the Arctic Ocean
  22. The Last Word
  23. Shell Walkers
  24. Redux: The Lady and Le Guin

January 2018

  1. Let’s Be Reasonable About Kratom
  2. Redux: I Got the Post Puppy Blues
  3. Go ahead, call me a quack
  4. The Last Word
  5. Pilgrims At the Factory That Could Destroy the World
  6. Redux: A Disease, A Miracle Drug, and a Tale of Uncertain Survival
  7. Redux: The Really Big, Astounding Experiment That Changed Everything But Kinda Happened By Accident
  8. Juli Berwald on the Art of Growing a Backbone
  9. Phone Hell
  10. A Little Late But Don’t Despair
  11. The Last Word
  12. The Awl Died
  13. Hidden in this picture
  14. The Great Polar Bear Debate
  15. Poetry
  16. It Turns Out There Are Some Downsides to the Magical Box
  17. The Last Word
  18. The Philosophy of Weather
  19. A Ghost Story From the Desert
  20. DIY Dog Doctor
  21. It All Depends Where You Look
  22. Redux: Antevernals in the Anthropocene
  23. The Kid Fire
  24. Adventures of an Occasional Goatherd
  25. 2018: What’s the worst that could happen?
  26. The Historically Slippery Age of Puberty
  27. Walking Into the New Year

2017 307

December 2017

  1. The Last Word
  2. Redux: Fatherhood: the Outline of a Man
  3. Redux: Coffeeshop Science
  4. Redux: Snark Week: Get Your F^#*ing Chihuahua Out of My Sight
  5. Redux: Sassy Smocks and Moist Panties
  6. Redux: A Pilgrimage for the Soul
  7. The Last Word
  8. Long Live Dictation
  9. Redux: Fired Up
  10. A Winter’s Tale
  11. Guest Post: Long Live Bears Ears
  12. Holiday Binge Watching List
  13. The Last Word
  14. Holiday Binge Reading List
  15. May the Force Be With You, and With Your Spirit
  16. Peter Pan Complex
  17. Sticking up for Your Colleagues, in the Lab and in the Field
  18. A Wolf Named Asena
  19. The Last Word
  20. On International Human Rights Day, Statisticians in the Line of Fire
  21. In Visibility
  22. If you had a third parent, would you know?
  23. Redux: Finding Peter Ganz
  24. Redux: I Did It Dad! I LOVE This!
  25. The Last Word
  26. Like You’re Not Even There

November 2017

  1. Meeting With ‘Oumuamua
  2. Powerless: A Puerto Rico Update
  3. A Plant’s Nightmare
  4. Redux: Good Night, Patriarchy
  5. The Last Word
  6. The People of LWON Have Memories
  7. The People of LWON Are Grateful
  8. Visiting Norman Borlaug and Eating an Impossible Burger with Charles Mann
  9. Whispering Walls and the Nature of Acoustic Geometry
  10. Unintentional treevotee
  11. The Last Word
  12. Loving Explosions
  13. Best Of Lists Should Self-Destruct After One Year
  14. Redux: A Case of J-Shame
  15. Make Like A Tree and Get Outta Here
  16. New Person of LWON: Rebecca Boyle
  17. On Speaking Up
  18. The Last Word
  19. Battle of the Bay: A very mild argument that ends with mint lemonade
  20. When My Girlfriend Almost Ate Dog Food
  21. Goodbye to the Friend I Never Met
  22. What I Learned in Humanities 110
  23. Redux: A Wolf Dies
  24. The Last Word
  25. There’s Shrinkage
  26. Redux: Science Meets Bird, Bird Meets Science
  27. Guest Post: Reaffirming Reason in Chattanooga

October 2017

  1. Redux: Stranger in a Foreign Land
  2. The Last Word
  3. Redux: Johnny and Oppie
  4. The Finkbeiner Test: A Tool for Writing About Women in their Professions
  5. Hike your pants
  6. Guest Post: Warm Feelings About the Void (A Rebuttal)
  7. The Last Word
  8. I Cried Wolf
  9. The Beginning of the Endling
  10. Tepid Feelings about Neutron Clashes
  11. It’s Raining Baby Oak Trees
  12. How I Eat Salad At Work
  13. The Last Word
  14. Redux: A Visit to the Museum of Osteology
  15. Redux: Watkin’s Lethal Elixr
  16. GRANDMOTHER? Really? and Subsequent Thoughts
  17. Stop Being Shocked Please
  18. Guest Post: Finding My Moorings
  19. The Last Word
  20. The Girl in the Motorcycle Helmet
  21. A Tree Persists in Brooklyn
  22. Redux: On Getting From “Wow!” to “[yawn]”: Yes!!!
  23. Speaking of the Trees
  24. If You’re Reading this on the Modern Talking Website, They Stole Our Work (Again)

September 2017

  1. The Last Word
  2. Losing Control Every Day
  3. Bird of two seas
  4. Redux: The Wonderful World of Period Patents
  5. Arguing with the Finkbeiner Test
  6. Feminine and unapologetic
  7. The Last Word
  8. Chicken Soup for the Hurricane-ravaged Soul
  9. Redux: Contagious Compassion
  10. What’s So Great About Walking
  11. Why I No Longer Do Internet Harassment Talks
  12. The Last Word
  13. Silver Lining
  14. Moors: Love or Hate? Discuss.
  15. Redux: Marine Iguanas Don’t Want to Cuddle With You
  16. Better Science Writing Through Improv
  17. Guest Post: The Weight of the Eclipse
  18. The Last Word
  19. Corvid Week: Against Birds
  20. Corvid Redux Week: The Crow Knows Your Nose
  21. Corvid Redux Week: Corvid Cousins
  22. Corvid Redux Week: An Argument About Crows
  23. Corvid Redux Week: Flying Forest
  24. Corvid Redux Week
  25. The Last Word
  26. Redux: Rainbow Connection

August 2017

  1. The ritual: When science feels like elegy in advance
  2. Flora Sapiens
  3. Guest Post: Begging Babies
  4. Redux: How Losing My Phone Made Me Smarter
  5. The Last Word
  6. Debunking Hollywood: Human hibernation
  7. A Toddler in Totality
  8. Totality Awesome
  9. On the Path of Totality
  10. Why Am I Not There?
  11. The Last Word
  12. Redux: There Goes the Sun
  13. Eclipse Week: Why the last eclipse mattered and this one will too.
  14. Eclipse Week: Not Even Looking Up
  15. Eclipse Week: Seen Through Every Lens
  16. Eclipse Week: Welcome!
  17. Mourning the Dove
  18. The Last Word
  19. The Gimli Glider
  20. Girasol
  21. Here Are The Actually Interesting Questions about RFID Chip Implants
  22. Redux: Konrad Steffen’s Desk
  23. Conversation with Adam Rogers: DARPians and the Social Science Problem
  24. The Last Word
  25. Redux: Plodding With My Father
  26. Redux: Helen and I Smack Down Unhappiness
  27. Science Metaphors (cont.): Arctic Resignation

July 2017

  1. No Maps for These Territories
  2. The Last Word
  3. Snark Week: Boids
  4. Snark Week: All Blackbirds Should Be Baked in Pie
  5. Snark Week: Sit you down, young man, and I’ll tell you an Arctic fox tale
  6. Snark Week: My Dog Would Definitely Eat My Corpse
  7. Snark Week: Backyard Domestic Terrorists
  8. Welcome to SNARK WEEK 2017!
  9. The Last Word
  10. What’s My Lipstick?
  11. We Humans Know Nothing About Sharks
  12. Why Is Singletrack So Awesome?
  13. Wild-Animal Painting in the Jungle
  14. The Atreides vs the Ancient Greeks
  15. The Last Word
  16. Cassandra and the Climate Apocalypse
  17. Science Metaphors (cont.): When Han Solo Got Waxed
  18. Guest Post: The Non-Simplicity of Mental Illness
  19. A wild flower, caged.
  20. Guest Post: The Baby Equinox and Charles Darwin
  21. The Last Word
  22. Redux: Tesser Well
  23. Down the Drain (or, Monster Beneath the Streets)
  24. Redux: Drawing What I See
  25. Redux: Honest to God, DARPA & Jet Packs
  26. Death in the Line of Treasure Hunting
  27. The Last Word

June 2017

  1. Redux: Physician, Screw Thyself (Or, Um, Not)
  2. Mantras for Writers
  3. Redux: Behind the Steel Door
  4. Bat Facts
  5. The Fall Line
  6. The Last Word
  7. My Garden of Evil (Plus, Planting Tips!)
  8. The Placebo Test
  9. Doom and the dogmometer
  10. Redux: The Unknown Grizzly
  11. Friend Me
  12. The Last Word
  13. Redux: Dr. Frankenstein’s Climate
  14. Redux Because This Is Better Than What I Was Going to Write
  15. Not all stories are words, not all maps are pictures
  16. Redux: U2 Gets Onto People’s Skin
  17. What I Learned About Interruption from Talk Radio
  18. Listening to the Lost Boys
  19. Perspective, Perhaps
  20. Guest Post: Ashes, Ashes
  21. Guest Post: The Descent of the Testes
  22. Redux: Coming of Age in a Trash Forest
  23. The Last Word
  24. Redux: June Gloom
  25. Tackling hunger from the root

May 2017

  1. In Defense of the Antivaxxer
  2. The Cicadas Come, on Little Hook Feet
  3. The Last Word
  4. Redux: Something About Sharks
  5. I Have So Many Ideas, I Have No Ideas At All
  6. The Common Language of Conservation
  7. Redux: Falling
  8. Redux: When is it time to revise our story?
  9. The Last Word
  10. Redux: Ravens among us
  11. Redux: Newsprint is dead. Long live newsprint!
  12. Stuff Chris Found
  13. On Taphonomy
  14. Sketches of Panels
  15. The Last Word
  16. Motherhood Week: Indecision 2017
  17. Motherhood Week: O Mother, How Art Thou
  18. Motherhood week: The saga of Bubbles LeMone
  19. Motherhood Week: The End Can Be Like This
  20. Motherhood Week: Making Friends With Mister P.
  21. The Last Word
  22. Color Your Way to Climate Reality
  23. Will You Find Me a Planet? Please?
  24. Sleep Cute
  25. How March for Science activists could become a force to be reckoned with
  26. Urban Wilderness and the “High Line Problem”

April 2017

  1. The Last Word
  2. Your Body is a Microbial Archipelago
  3. Redux: the Springtime of Robins
  4. Litterbug
  5. Mrs. Whitcher and the Renegade Numbers
  6. The Last Word
  7. Redux: Bees Are Us
  8. Redux: Dust on our crust
  9. Tropical Science
  10. The Community Listservs of the People of LWON
  11. The Kind of People Whose Neighbors Are Sad When They Move Away
  12. The Last Word
  13. First, AI came for our volunteer jobs
  14. “Bug” on My Floor
  15. Redux: Science Metaphors (cont.): Scale Mismatch
  16. Guest Post: Math Movie Music
  17. Cherry Blossoms, Close By
  18. Moby Peep: A Peeps Diorama
  19. The Junk-Bond Salesmen of Science: A Tribute
  20. On Competence
  21. Dead Bugs Under My Desk, a Tribute
  22. 1,444 Candlesticks: The dark origins of modern fire science
  23. The Last Word

March 2017

  1. Diary of a Human Zoo Animal
  2. The Sock Barometer
  3. Sorry For The Delayed Response: An Internal Monologue
  4. TSA’s Gratuitous Bun Squeezing
  5. Redux: You’ve got mail, you idiot!
  6. The Last Word
  7. TGIPF: Alligator Awesome Redux
  8. Where is here; here is where
  9. My Liver’s Bloody Buddy
  10. Resistance Begins at Home
  11. Concert Bug
  12. The Last Word
  13. Sexist for All I Know
  14. Guest Post: Scientists Come in All Sizes
  15. Reading Sci-Fi with Astrobioloigist David Grinspoon
  16. “Precisely, Sir,” said Jeeves.
  17. Honest to God, DARPA & Jet Belts
  18. The Last Word
  19. Beetles, Time Travelers
  20. Dirty Norwegians
  21. Holding the Last of Winter
  22. Don’t Think of a Mammophant
  23. Our déjà vu moment in history
  24. The Last Word
  25. My Unlovely Lady Lump
  26. The search for thirsty blue
  27. The Problem with Good People

February 2017

  1. Jewish TMI
  2. Dial M for Medicine
  3. The Last Word
  4. Potted
  5. Creating With Nature: Ice Ornaments
  6. Redux: Reading Beyond the Shallows
  7. Redux: A Snow Day
  8. Before You Can Enter, We Need to Search Your Brain
  9. The Last Word
  10. Drugs, Trials and a Little Bit of History Repeating
  11. The Quaking Giant
  12. When America was Great, the First Time
  13. Saccorhytus coronarius Is Your Weird Cousin, Too
  14. Dance Like Science Isn’t Watching
  15. The Last Word
  16. What Golems and Robots Have in Common
  17. Good Night, Patriarchy
  18. Great Balls of Fire
  19. Conversation: Mike Lemonick & the Perpetual Now
  20. The Last Word
  21. Redux: Love Song for the Capital Weather Gang
  22. Redux: So Hard Core
  23. The trouble with abundance

January 2017

  1. Wish We Were Here
  2. What I Learned From a Year of Drawing [almost] Every Day
  3. The Last Word
  4. Truth + Beauty
  5. The Really Big, Astounding Experiment That Changed Everything But Kinda Happened By Accident
  6. Why Rachel Carson Still Matters
  7. Guest Post: The Philosopher’s Table
  8. Stop Underestimating Chickens
  9. The Last Word
  10. Sharing science in the halls of power
  11. In Defense of Private Projects
  12. The Telltale Liver
  13. Tea: An Appreciation
  14. Martin Luther King Day
  15. The Last Word
  16. The Precarious Life and Untimely Death of Whooper 4-11
  17. Wind, the uninvited houseguest
  18. Redux: The Wonderful World of Oz…and Science
  19. Same River Twice
  20. Just Have Lunch
  21. The Last Word
  22. The Freshwater Bullies of Gatun Lake
  23. Reason for Hope
  24. A Book About Whales
  25. Redux: Storia
  26. A Matter of Choice

2016 299

December 2016

  1. The Last Word
  2. A Resolution For A New Year That Doesn’t Exist
  3. Guest Post: Filippiada, Faneromeni, Softex
  4. Why dating is a lot like this animal guidebook I bought at a thrift store
  5. Sid Drell, 1926 – 2016, Whom We Still Needed
  6. On These Long and Softly Lit Nights
  7. The Last Word
  8. The Ghost of Old Mom
  9. Redux: In Case of Rapture, Head For Poughkeepsie
  10. Creating With Nature: Making Holiday Wreaths with Boughs from Public Land
  11. A Science Journalist After the Election
  12. Holiday Viewing
  13. The Last Word
  14. Holiday Reading
  15. Redux: Water Year
  16. Cicada On My Window
  17. Thanks, Kids
  18. Goodbye, Home
  19. The Last Word
  20. My Latest Bad Business Idea: 3D Printed Custom Menstrual Cups
  21. Yoga & the Bullshit Prevention Protocol
  22. Forcing the Issue
  23. I Can’t Believe It’s Not Intelligent Design
  24. A Bird’s Foot: Death in the Forest
  25. The Last Word
  26. What’s the Poop?
  27. Looking Up

November 2016

  1. What Should We Do About Comments?
  2. The Great Eucalyptus Debate
  3. Drawing For My Nerves
  4. The Last Word
  5. Fat: What is it good for?
  6. Thankful? Oh, Really?
  7. A Tale of Two Fish
  8. Where should research chimps grow old?
  9. Fear and Loathing in Elections
  10. The Last Word
  11. The POOS Personality Matrix
  12. Redux: This Too Shall Pass
  13. Redux: The story I won’t tell
  14. Why Trump’s Victory is like the End of the Ice Age
  15. Guest Post: On Walden Pond, On Election Day
  16. The Last Word
  17. Suggestible You
  18. Science Metaphors (cont.): Scale Mismatch
  19. Redux: Boobies Behaving Badly
  20. This Election Day, contemplate the vastness of space and time (after you vote)
  21. That Old Cafeteria Smell
  22. The Last Word
  23. TGIPF: The Seven-Arm Octopus
  24. Experiment Regarding a Garage
  25. How To Be A Good Online Friend
  26. Guest Post: Deep and Unspoken Hopes

October 2016

  1. The Othering of Tom Hayden
  2. The Last Word
  3. The Sound of a Ghost
  4. Killing in the Name of Science
  5. The Eternal Toil of the Motor Protein
  6. A Wolf Dies
  7. New Person of LWON: Emma Marris
  8. Redux: The Other Signs of Fall
  9. The Last Word
  10. Guest Post: Fact-Checking: the Polar Bear Test
  11. Conversation: James Gleick in the Fourth Dimension
  12. Who Killed the Bramble Cay Melomys?
  13. How Sexual Harassers Get Away With It
  14. Your Brain on Sexual Assault
  15. The Last Word
  16. Baby Science
  17. Teen hippies get off my lawn
  18. Guest Post: Rat Lab Summer
  19. Redux: Happy Lady Ada Day
  20. Guest Post: Cuba’s Stories in Stone
  21. The Last Word
  22. Bug love redux: The day I tried to love ticks
  23. Bug Love Redux: Jumping Spiders in Love
  24. Bug Love Redux: Wonder TK
  25. Bug Love Redux: Spider at the Window
  26. Bug Love Redux: The Ant-Man Diary
  27. The Last Word

September 2016

  1. Shameless PR for My New Book: A Brief LWON Q&A
  2. The End of the Line
  3. Guest Post: Wax Work
  4. On Being Alone
  5. Bug On My Airplane Window
  6. The Last Word
  7. The Patter of Little Feet
  8. Scientist in the Field: The Mosquitoes of Two Towns
  9. Pablo, Pablo and me
  10. Redux: Guns on the Brain
  11. The Financially Damaging Myth of No Effort
  12. The Last Word
  13. Bomb the Bloodsuckers?
  14. Letters from the Dead
  15. How to Read Ancient Mayan
  16. Market Day
  17. A Letter to Myself: Summer is Survivable
  18. The Last Word
  19. Rosetta and Philae: Plucky siblings for life
  20. I Know What the Fox Says
  21. This is the Sound of a Forest Changing
  22. Redux: The Long Legacy of a Good Deed
  23. Guest Post: What We Talk About When We Talk About Intelligent Life
  24. The Last Word
  25. Road Trip
  26. Mystery on 39th Street

August 2016

  1. Science Metaphors (cont.): The Anthropocene
  2. The Four Stages of Twitter Grief
  3. River time, river tongue
  4. The Last Word
  5. The Million Dollar Spaghetti Conundrum
  6. Sliding Baselines
  7. People being wrong on the Internet
  8. Helen and I Smack Down Unhappiness
  9. Guest Post: Lost Amid the Smartness
  10. The Last Word
  11. Redux: Summer of Smoke
  12. Redux: I’ll Miss You Summer
  13. Redux: How I Spent My Summer Vacation (Winter Edition)
  14. HOT: Guest Post: Counting Star Swirls
  15. HOT HOT HOT Redux: Rites of Summer
  16. The Last Word
  17. Toward a Unified Theory of Poohsticks
  18. Redux: On My Way to Burning Man
  19. It’s Pretty, but It’s Bad News
  20. Guest Post: Swimming in the Charles
  21. Redux: How I Eat My Veggies
  22. The Last Word
  23. Marine Iguanas Don’t Want to Cuddle With You
  24. A Concatenation of Extraterrestrials
  25. A Brush with the Bear
  26. Stranger in a Foreign Land
  27. Redux: Go Occupy Those Forlorn Chairs

July 2016

  1. The Last Word
  2. How to Name a Caribou
  3. The Failed Vagina Story
  4. Flying on Sunlight
  5. The Mathematical Elegance of the Grand Canyon
  6. Small
  7. The Last Word: Inanimate Object Appreciation Week
  8. Redux: Ann Remembers Jim’s Camera
  9. Redux: Anne Sasso has a stand-up calculator
  10. Redux: Helen on Tea Towels
  11. Redux: Nell on Paper Clips
  12. Redux: Tom Praises Crap Technology
  13. The Last Word
  14. My Science Fair Project Part II: Revenge of the Lab Rabbits
  15. Counting Pistachios, Taxis and Great White Sharks
  16. My Science Fair Project Was Better Than Yours
  17. The Brooklyn Squirrel War of 2016
  18. The Last Word
  19. Preppers and Pets
  20. The Appeal of Crackpot Television
  21. Milkweed In Summer
  22. The Last Word
  23. Snark Week: The Tallest Terror

June 2016

  1. Snark Week: A Lurking Threat That Wants To Eat Your Testicles
  2. Snark Week: Get Your F^#*ing Chihuahua Out of My Sight
  3. Snark Week: The Great Horny Owl
  4. Snark Week: Guest Post: Warning: A Slow and Silent Menace in the Trees
  5. Public Service Announcement: SNARK WEEK!
  6. The Last Word
  7. Rescue Us
  8. Update: From Puffball to Predator to Museum
  9. Anastomosing Rabbit Holes
  10. The Last Word
  11. Guest Post: Ode to a Gay Bar
  12. A Case of J-Shame
  13. Dr. Frankenstein’s Climate
  14. Redux: How an internet quiz put me in my place
  15. The Last Word
  16. The Map Box
  17. In Defense of Bad Robots
  18. I Am Tiny Or Very Large
  19. The Last Word
  20. The Limits of Exhaustion
  21. Controlling Cancer with Evolution
  22. Redux: What is a good death?

May 2016

  1. Guest Post: A Mathy Mechanism for Solving a Problem Like The Donald
  2. Redux: Gold Stars
  3. The Last Word
  4. Science Metaphors (cont.): Secular Evolution
  5. What Makes Something Bodyhacking?
  6. Pain Management Hurts
  7. A Pilgrimage for the Soul
  8. Guest Post: When Everything Good Is Also Beautiful
  9. The Last Word
  10. Update: On Getting Pooped On By Birds
  11. Guest Post: Moire in the Wild
  12. Going Paleo in Florida
  13. Environmentalism Lost
  14. Redux: Lost in the Cloud
  15. The Last Word
  16. Guest Post: Pip, Part Two
  17. Guest Post: Water in Yomibato
  18. Funny Bird
  19. You call that science?
  20. The Last Word
  21. Divided By Common Languages
  22. In Their Own Words
  23. Parle français? Read English? ¿Una palabra a la vez? Oy.
  24. All the Chinese You Need to Take a Shower

April 2016

  1. The Last Word
  2. Redux: Murmuration. The poetry of the morning walk.
  3. Pictures with an 8-Year Old: A Failure of Citizen Science
  4. The Biography of an Ice Pile
  5. Shakespeare Was a Journalist
  6. Shop Owner! Bring Me a Sheet of Table!
  7. The Last Word
  8. This is what it sounds (looks) like
  9. Sankofa Futurism
  10. Damage Patterns
  11. Book Review: The Informed Parent
  12. Learning to Talk All Over Again
  13. The Last Word
  14. Redux: What Luis Alvarez Did
  15. Redux: Does Your Messy Desk Make You a Bad Person?
  16. Ding Dong Moose
  17. Guest Post: When Worlds Collide
  18. The Last Word
  19. Flying forest
  20. See No Evil
  21. Marvin and The System
  22. Redux: The sniffle, hack, sneeze blame game
  23. The Last Word
  24. The Advent Calendar Method

March 2016

  1. Gratuitous Cherry Blossom Pictures
  2. Coming of Age
  3. Meet My New Favorite Television Show
  4. Guest Post: The Hidden Rites of Spring
  5. The Last Word
  6. Outmoded Diseases: An X-File for Osteomyelitis
  7. Guest Post: Outmoded Diseases: Pleurisy
  8. Outmoded Diseases: Female Hysteria, an Incomplete but Entertaining History
  9. Outmoded Diseases: Spermatorrhea
  10. Outmoded Diseases: Neurasthenia
  11. The Last Word
  12. Men with Stones
  13. The Oregon Trail Game
  14. Contagious Compassion
  15. Redux: Is passion for science a heritable trait?
  16. Kill the Sprickets, Kill Them All
  17. The Last Word
  18. The Placebo President
  19. Crackle, Hiss, Pop
  20. Homeopathy Part One: Rebels of Medicine
  21. Guest Post: The Dirty Bomb of Nutrition
  22. The Last Word
  23. The Holland Brothers
  24. The Puffin’s Progress
  25. Do I Stay Or Do I Go? The Eveleth Conundrum
  26. Live from the Bering Land Bridge

February 2016

  1. How I Won the Internet and Brought Joy to Peepdom
  2. The Last Word
  3. The day I tried to love ticks
  4. In Bloom
  5. Drawings of Drawings of Lions
  6. Goodness Gracious
  7. Redux: Climate Change: The Anti-Story?
  8. The Last Word
  9. The Arctic Circle
  10. The Story I Never Wrote
  11. What Happened Next
  12. Simplify, Simplify
  13. With the Grain
  14. The Last Word
  15. Love in the Time of Zika
  16. Can We Defend Ourselves Against Brain Tumors?
  17. Urban Lichens, Part 3 of 2: Lichen Beauty Everywhere
  18. Antevernals in the Anthropocene
  19. Debunking Hollywood: The Gordian Knot
  20. The Last Word
  21. Redux: Snowbound and Murderous
  22. Nobody Likes Sad Futures
  23. The Misadventures of Garbage Dog
  24. Redux: Below the Snow

January 2016

  1. The Last Word
  2. Medicine in the Fourth Dimension
  3. Urban Lichens, Part 2 of 2: A Visit With a Lichenologist
  4. Urban Lichens, Part 1 of 2: OMG! Urban Lichens!
  5. The Elephant in the Bedroom
  6. Nobody Knows What Makes Something a Copycat Crime
  7. The Last Word
  8. Pretend this Environmental Impact Statement is a national park: A brief tour of a virtual landscape
  9. Guest Post: The Lizards of Hastings-on-Hudson
  10. The Mark We Leave
  11. No, Mr. Penn, That Is Not Why We Hate You
  12. I Take Up STEM, I Drop It Again.
  13. Blinded by the light
  14. Memories in My Kitchen
  15. In the Oregon Standoff, Science is a Hostage
  16. Here’s What Happened When a Doctor Fed Infants Whatever They Wanted
  17. The Last Word
  18. Redux: Whither the Dorset?
  19. The Wonderful World of Period Patents
  20. Data Dump
  21. Have Lady Beard, Will Travel
  22. The Last Word
  23. Redux: The Mystery of the Ill-Timed Tides

2015 304

December 2015

  1. The Last Explorer
  2. Guest Post: How to Navigate a Rising Sea
  3. How Music and Literature Taught Me About Geology and Disease
  4. Conversation with Michael Balter: On Not Teaching
  5. The Last Word
  6. The Monument that Montreal Swallowed
  7. The Undead: A Holiday Rant
  8. Give a Science Writer a Stage
  9. Redux: Science Plus/Versus Religion
  10. Thou Shalt Watch This
  11. The Last Word
  12. Thou Shalt Read This
  13. Halfway
  14. Guest Post: A Mathematical Mastermind Gets His Head Examined
  15. Let’s stop pretending we give a damn about climate change, 2015 edition
  16. Let Us Celebrate The Lack Of Total Failure
  17. The Last Word
  18. New Yorkers, I Am Watching You
  19. Redux: Singing Our Hearts Out
  20. Email is an Untamable Beast
  21. Shattered
  22. The Quantum Entanglement of Bad Things
  23. The Last Word
  24. Redux: Freelancing Still Sucks. Still, Long Live Freelancing.
  25. What To Do In Mexico When Your Wife Is In Labor 700 Miles Away
  26. Birthdays are Arbitrary and Awesome

November 2015

  1. Motherhood: A postscript
  2. The Last Word
  3. A Modest Proposal for Re-Naming Connectors and Fasteners
  4. Redux: LWONian Thanksgiving
  5. In Tribute: Her True Calling
  6. A Piece of My Mind
  7. Turning Left on 39th
  8. The Last Word
  9. In extremis
  10. Guest Post: Why humans suck at earthquake preparedness
  11. “The Martian” and Ice Age Astronauts
  12. Taking the Waste out of Wastewater
  13. Guest Post: The Return of Persian Science
  14. The Last Word
  15. The Internet Is a Series of Lead Tubes
  16. Lives on the Line
  17. Life on Another Planet, The Atacama in Bloom
  18. A Squee from the Field: Why I Love my Job
  19. Guest Post: Science Fail
  20. The Last Word
  21. 30 seconds in the UAE
  22. Guest Post: How the Bolivian Navy Became Landlocked
  23. Clamming Up
  24. Walking in the Land in Between
  25. 0/0/1969

October 2015

  1. The Last Word
  2. A Moore’s Law Mystery
  3. Like Groundhog Day: the Mammogram Story That Won’t Die
  4. An extraterrestrial social experiment
  5. New Person of LWON: Sarah Gilman
  6. So Hard Core
  7. The dark crystal
  8. The Last Word
  9. Guest Post: the Grandmother Hypothesis
  10. Redux: The Compulsion to Count
  11. Seeing Through Time
  12. A Hug From a Plant Friend
  13. Redux: Inputing Narratives
  14. The Last Word
  15. Ethical Quandaries
  16. Redux: Love City
  17. Three Weird Tricks For Not Writing Ableist Garbage
  18. Redux: Brave New Worlds
  19. Gesundheit
  20. The Last Word
  21. The Other Signs of Fall
  22. Water Year
  23. Countering Iniquity
  24. Redux: On Eating Whale
  25. On the Discovery of Liquid Water on Mars
  26. The Last Word
  27. What’s Your Word?
  28. Aristotle’s Raven

September 2015

  1. Guest post: Water Unbound
  2. I Got the Post Puppy Blues
  3. New Person of LWON: Rose Eveleth
  4. Face Time
  5. The Last Word
  6. Coffeeshop Science
  7. Your Daily Time Machine
  8. Abstruse Goose: Argument from Obliviousness
  9. Guest Post: The Lords of Yesterday
  10. The Last Word
  11. March On
  12. A time to remember
  13. Metamorphosis At Home
  14. Redux: Donald Trump Is the World’s Greatest Performance Artist
  15. Redux: The Mundaneness of Science
  16. The Last Word
  17. Je ne comprends pas
  18. Hug It Out
  19. Hummingbirds Are Such Jerks
  20. Boobies Behaving Badly
  21. Headwind
  22. The Last Word
  23. Plodding With My Father
  24. I’ll Miss You Summer
  25. Guest Post: Walking With Oliver
  26. Animals in their Seasons

August 2015

  1. Guest Post: When The Ants Win
  2. The Last Word
  3. A Baffling Curio
  4. A Singular Data Point Is A Datum, You Idiots!
  5. Prescription for Tragedy
  6. Story, History, Story
  7. Guest Post: Postcard from El Salvador
  8. The Last Word
  9. The Lady and Le Guin
  10. Gathering String
  11. U2 Gets Onto People’s Skin
  12. Talking Across Time
  13. Guest Post: How to Stop a Tsunami in Three Easy Steps
  14. The Last Word
  15. Redux: Galápagos Monday: When Conservation Means Killing
  16. Redux: Journalists Should Act More Like Scientists
  17. Redux: Dog Days by Cameron Walker
  18. Redux: The Art (& Science) of Lefty Portraits
  19. The Last Word
  20. Can anesthesia satisfy the need for sleep?
  21. The Cold Truth
  22. Painting Fire With Fire
  23. The Brain I Wish I Had
  24. Petty Larceny, Vegetable
  25. The Last Word

July 2015

  1. Forced Fasts and Surgical Risks
  2. How I Eat My Veggies
  3. Guest Post: On Being Pro-Frog
  4. Stupid Things My Dog Has Done, Part 2. (How to De-Skunk A Dog)
  5. The Last Word
  6. I Wish I Could Have One
  7. New Arrivals Daily
  8. The Ant-Man Diary (Or really Ant-Woman, or actually Ant-Sterile-Female-Workers if we’re being technical about it, which we aren’t)
  9. After Antman: More Amazing Bug Superhero Movies
  10. Abstruse Goose: At the Bench
  11. The Last Word
  12. A day at the science fair
  13. Go Occupy Those Forlorn Chairs
  14. I Have A Few Questions For These Trees
  15. Dear Dr. Collins: I’m Disabled. Can the N.I.H. Spare a Few Dimes?
  16. Mocking Tricks
  17. The Last Word
  18. Snark Week: The Wrath of the Sloth
  19. Snark Week: Man’s Best Friend?
  20. Snark week: Killer Cows!
  21. Snark Week: Sand, Sea, and Family-Oriented Flesh-Ripping Aliens
  22. Snark Week: A Silent, Adorable Killer
  23. Welcome to Snark Week
  24. The Last Word
  25. Dip, Dip and Swing
  26. Guest Post: Waiting Out the Latter Days
  27. The myth of the breastfeeding diet

June 2015

  1. Fired Up
  2. The Urge to Go
  3. The Last Word
  4. Meal, Worm
  5. Bugs on My Window
  6. Learning from Rafe
  7. Guest Post: Upvote This Post, Pleeease!
  8. The Last Word
  9. A Council of Writer Dads
  10. Guest Post: Praised Be
  11. Island Bears
  12. Interesting Fact:
  13. Postcards From IRL
  14. The Last Word
  15. Getting Cultured
  16. Truth vs. Beauty, Again
  17. The Tyranny of Planned Obsolescence
  18. The Lies Maps Tell
  19. Redux: June Gloom
  20. The Last Word
  21. Guest Post: The Trajectory of the Sting
  22. The Simplest Answer
  23. Poo Detective
  24. Wolves at the Door
  25. Where the Wind Has No Name

May 2015

  1. The Last Word
  2. Storia
  3. Bees Are Us
  4. Guest Post: The Deep Roots of Boko Haram
  5. Birds and Songs and Bird Songs
  6. Redux for Memorial Day: Uncle Bundy & the Technically Sweet
  7. The Last Word
  8. Survey Says
  9. The Best Science to Write About and the Worst
  10. Guest Post: The Top 5 May 20ths Ever
  11. Guest Post: A Litany of Posts Not Written
  12. Manifesto of a Wasp Scientist
  13. The Last Word
  14. A Visit from the Sphinx
  15. Guest Post: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
  16. Trite and True
  17. Something About Sharks
  18. Last Word
  19. Motherhood: Indecision 2015
  20. Guest Post: The Fairy Tale of the Fairy Godmother
  21. Three Photos of My Mother
  22. The Opposite of Extinction
  23. The Last Word
  24. What I Got: Three Gifts from the Recovery Ward

April 2015

  1. Guest Post: Young Astronomer Looks Back
  2. Breaking the Sea Ice
  3. Dreams of Monsters and Coconuts, Airports and Toilets
  4. Live! From Washington, D. C.! It’s . . . “Ask Mr. Cosmology”!
  5. The Last Word
  6. With This Ring
  7. Unwelcome Worm
  8. The Top 20 Things I Learned from Lucha Libre
  9. Rust, Beer and Burritos: Interview with Jonathan Waldman
  10. Double Play: How the Yankees Ruined My Feng Shui
  11. The Last Word
  12. New Person of LWON: Jennifer Holland
  13. Guest Post: We Gaze at Dogs, Dogs Gaze at Us, Is It Love?
  14. There Goes the Sun
  15. A Sense of Many Places
  16. The Dragons’ Third Stir: the Next Bigge One
  17. The Last Word
  18. Guest Post: Brontosaurus and Me
  19. Abstruse Goose: Fundamentalist Comp Lit
  20. Journalists Should Act More Like Scientists
  21. We Are Still Arguing About Jonathan Franzen
  22. The Last Word
  23. Redux: Do Peepguins Need Sweaters?
  24. Guest Post: Learning to Appreciate the Untracked Life
  25. The Amazing Lives of Fan Li and Xi Shi

March 2015

  1. A Visit to the Museum of Osteology
  2. This Post Longs to Be Close to 500 Birds
  3. The Last Word
  4. The trolley and the psychopath
  5. Science Metaphors (cont.): Decompensation
  6. Behind the Curve
  7. Guest Post: Cinderella and the Cinema Hangover
  8. Guest Post: The Resilience of The Citified Bobcat
  9. The Last Word
  10. Debunking Hollywood: Drowning
  11. G is for Goddamned Goshawk
  12. From Puffball to Predator
  13. Now We Rhyme The Science Times
  14. Redux Baltimore: Drugs, Guns, and Real Life
  15. The Last Word
  16. Watkins’ Lethal Elixir
  17. Another Brick in the Anti-Copernican Wall
  18. A Leg to Stand On
  19. These Are a Few of Our Favorite Places
  20. Redux: The Beginning of the End of Science
  21. The Last Word
  22. Ice is the Worst
  23. Losing Control
  24. The Language of Change
  25. Abstruse Goose: Technical Assistance
  26. Science Needs Cool Kids

February 2015

  1. The Last Word
  2. Quiz Time
  3. Plan UVB
  4. Dreaming in the Pleistocene
  5. Flabbergasted By the Real World
  6. The Last Word
  7. A Visit From the Christmas Squirrel
  8. Do you speak English?
  9. Guest Post: Isis, a Dog Out of Time
  10. Redux: The Scientist in the Garden
  11. Is 12 Degrees Warm or Cold?
  12. The Last Word
  13. Lost in the Woods
  14. Aldo Explains it All
  15. Behind the Steel Door
  16. Of Cops and Shots
  17. I Did It Dad! I LOVE This!
  18. The Last Word
  19. Charles Hard Townes Made Things Happen
  20. Ye Olde Scientific Writing
  21. Tongue in Beak
  22. Picking Your Brains
  23. Abstruse Goose: Shelf Life

January 2015

  1. The Last Word
  2. What Does Today’s Possible Rocket Launch Have to Do With Japanese Pop Music? (I’ll Tell You: Very Little)
  3. Sassy Smocks and Moist Panties
  4. Hard Times in the Younger Dryas
  5. Rainforest Drop In
  6. The Last Word
  7. Of Time and Turtles
  8. Ask Your Doctor, Much Good It Will Do You
  9. A Few Good Maps
  10. This Year’s Flu Vaccine Is Shoddy: Four Reasons to Get It Anyway
  11. The Last Word: January 12 – 16, 2015
  12. The Greatest Athlete in the World
  13. Freelancing Sucks. Long Live Freelancing.
  14. Guest Post: In Praise of Snow Geese
  15. Yelping My Eye Surgeon
  16. The Last Word
  17. Debunking Hollywood: Falling!!!
  18. Gender in the Paleolithic
  19. A Snow Day
  20. Guest Post: The Mars Rover of Calculators
  21. To File or Pile?
  22. The Last Word
  23. Holiday Redux: Funny How the Knight Moves
  24. Holiday Redux: The Pocket Guide to Bullshit Prevention

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