People & culture
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On starlings and the thermodynamics of life
[ad_1] A murmuration of tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of starlings, flying in such perfect synchrony that they look like a single, billowing, pulsing organism against the night sky: this is one of nature’s most striking sights. The biggest evolutionary benefit of moving in concert is obvious. A coherent collective serves as a…
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The Unseen Blends Horror And Trauma In Unsettling New Ways
[ad_1] Ania Ahlborn is known for her ability to weave some of the most unsettling horror with deep human trauma. I mean, have you read Brother or Seed? The Unseen is perhaps her most innovative to date. With a premise of the unknown, The Unseen takes the reader on a ride where we are discovering…
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Watch Joan Baez Endearingly Imitate Bob Dylan (1972)
[ad_1] Joan Baez was already heralded as the “Queen of Folk” by the time Robert Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan arrived in New York City. Many things brought him to the burgeoning folk scene there, but Baez was the siren who called to a young Dylan through his television set long before he met her. He…
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God, Us, and Them – Part III: Theological Reflections on Ext…
[ad_1] This is the third and final article in a three-part series. (Read Part I and Part II.) In the first article of this series, we laid a theological framework for thinking about extraterrestrial life. In the second, we examined the rise of UFO mythology in popular culture and clarified how the scientific search for…
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16 of the best films of 2025 so far
[ad_1] Agat Films(Credit: Agat Films) 13. Holy Cow Deep in the leafy French countryside, a scruffy teenage layabout Totone (Clément Faveau) has to look after his younger sister Claire (Luna Garret) after the sudden death of their father. His answer to their dire financial problems? Making award-winning luxury cheese. Louise Courvoisier’s debut film is a…
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Borrowing from Erdoğan’s playbook | Eurozine
[ad_1] On 5 February 2025, two weeks after Donald Trump assumed the role of US president, Argonotlar (“Argonauts”), a queer art publication in Turkey, issued an urgent letter to its readers. “Last week, we were going to apply for a fund from the United States Embassy, which aims to develop cultural co-operation between Turkey and…
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A Dark Love Letter To The World Around You: Kiku Pukk Härens…
[ad_1] This year at Gen Con, Free League Publishing had as good a year as ever. They showed off their new starter sets for The One Ring and LOTR Roleplaying, announced new titles like Twilight Sword as well as an expansions for Coriolis, The Great Dark. They even continued their streak of ENnie wins with…
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The Prince of Darkness Wasn’t So Dark After All
[ad_1] “The Prince of Darkness has died” has a distinctly different ring from “the King is dead,” the headline that marked Elvis Presley’s passing. If Elvis was the king of rock and roll, then the late Ozzy Osbourne was the patron saint of what came to be called heavy metal. For those who loved him,…
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How dark and daring gamble The Black Cauldron became a notor…
[ad_1] What is certain is that The Black Cauldron aimed to be a different kind of Disney film. “Ron Miller, the former CEO of the company and the son-in-law of Walt Disney, wanted the film to be a departure,” Neil O’Brien, author of After Disney: Toil, Trouble, and the Transformation of America’s Favorite Media Company,…
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Religion and Secularism | Eurozine
[ad_1] Let’s start with the basics: What is secularism? Well, according to the Enycolpedia Britannica, even scholars have a hard time defining it to the fullest, but we will do our best! In Andrew Copsons book, “What is secularism?” He found 3 key descriptions by Jean Baubérot. The first states “Secularism is the separation of…