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• Link The 'Basic' Plots in Literature

  Q: I’ve heard there are only 7 (or 5, 20, 36…) basic plots (or themes) in all of literature. What are they? A: People often say that there are only…

  March 9 2010, 4:35pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Avatar: We're Not in Kansas Anymore!

  February 21 2010, 10:25pm | Comments

• Wikipedia Cargo cult A cargo cult is a type of religious practice that may appear in traditional tribal societies in the wake of interaction with technologically advanced cultures. The cults are…

  January 8 2010, 10:51am | Comments

• Blog Post Simulating Kim Jong Il

  November 6 2009, 10:28am | Comments

• Link Monsters and the Moral Imagination

  Monsters are on the rise. People can't seem to get enough of vampires lately, and zombies have a new lease on life. This year and next we have the release…

  October 27 2009, 12:01pm | Comments

• Link Jorge Luis Borges: The Mirror Man

  Directed by Philippe Molins - Although honors came late in life to Jorge Luis Borges, his unique worldview had begun to emerge even as a child. This program examines the…

  August 6 2009, 1:23pm | Comments

• Writing from 3quarksdaily Desire Paths: Reading, Memory and Inscription

  July 12 2009, 10:35pm | Comments

• Link Atlas Obscura

  Welcome to the Atlas Obscura, a compendium of this age's wonders, curiosities, and esoterica. The Atlas Obscura is a collaborative project with the goal of cataloguing all of the singular,…

  June 16 2009, 3:14pm | Comments

• Blog Post Seeing Centaurs

  June 14 2009, 2:50pm | Comments

• Link 'On the Origin of Stories,' 'Finding Our Tongues,'…

  A few years ago Tufts philosopher Daniel Dennett opined that the idea of natural selection - proposed 150 years ago in Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" - was…

  June 3 2009, 12:01pm | Comments

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