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Friday, February 29th, 2008

HEARING VOICES

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: the paternal, symbolic narrative of his-tory is told for the eye; the maternal, imaginary narrative of her-story is told for the ear. As such, it should come as no surprise that potentially the first woman president in the history of this nation, Barack […]

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Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

THE AUDACITY OF THE IMAGINARY

You know for a long time I felt that the cultural unconscious was working itself to put the maternal at the locus of authority in this country, given the obsolescence of the paternal narratives brought on by the verifiability of paternity through paternity tests. Given that the for the first time in history fathers no […]

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Monday, February 25th, 2008

THE RETURN OF THE MONSTROUS MOTHER

One need only look briefly at any number of cultural traditions to know that when there’s a major technological transition in a given historical moment, then the monstrous mother comes out of hiding. I’m thinking here of Medea (greek alphabet) or Lady Macbeth (printing press) to name only two of many. Thus […]

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Monday, February 25th, 2008

OBAMARAMA AND BATMAN

So why will Barack get elected at this complex moment in the cultural unconscious? One reason could well be that the font he uses on all of his campaign signs is Gotham. Isn’t that the name of the city where our Vampiric hero, Batman, lives? Oh yes, I think it is.
A Font […]

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Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Dragons and Madonnas and babies oh my

You know for years I’ve been wondering why Dragons play such a big role in all of these myths of parthenogenesis, paternity, and literacy. Well, I think I just figured it out, thanks to an article that appeared today in the NYT. It’s all there in the first line of the article: “DRAGONS […]

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Monday, February 18th, 2008

Parenting and Printing…the sci-fi musical

Ok, so there’s this movie called the American Astronaut, and it’s a science fiction musical that is basically parenting and printing…in space. If I had known about this film sooner, I would have definitely done my final project on it. This is probably the best film I’ve ever seen in my life. This scene takes […]

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Sunday, February 17th, 2008

The Ring Virus: Not just for kids any more

As we all know, the bee population is mysteriously dying in California, with severe agricultural reproductions.  Well now, apparently, the same thing is happening to bats in New England, with at least 8,000 dying off last winter and up to 200,000 shuffling off this year.  The dead bats have white rings of […]

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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Just When You Thought You Had Your Sex Life Figured Out

Apparently the current democratic primary season isn’t the only competition in town between a man and a woman:
http://www.slate.com/id/2184363/

MEDICAL EXAMINER
The Merry Band of Wrigglers
Men, women, passion, and sperm.
By Melinda Wenner
Posted Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2008, at 11:57 AM ET
The old adage says that a wife can’t change her husband, but the truth is that women […]

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Monday, February 11th, 2008

I stumbled across an interview article with the writer Brian K. Vaughan, who often co-writes episodes of the tremendously successful “Lost”, and found out that he also just finished a comic book series called “Y: The Last Man”. Just guess what the story-line is…
“Issue 60 [the final issue] capped five years of the adventures […]

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Saturday, February 9th, 2008

The Cadmus Tooth lives on…

Tooth Scan Reveals Neanderthal Mobility
This article talks about the study of an ancient tooth and how it relates to early human mobility. Plus there’s some cool pics.
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/tooth-scan-reveals-neanderthal-mobility/20080208203609990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001
~ Jenny

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