When I parted ways with Twitter back in June, I did so with a post stating that I needed more time to focus on strengthening my parasocial relationships. This was only half in jest: Iāve been spending an inordinate amount of time dialed into my headphones, listening to people chatter about great books , bad movies , and everything in between . This is partly because Iāve picked up a …
Tags: · Abroad in Japan, Japan, podcasts
The Nakhla meteorite is one of the most famous objects to ever smash into this planet of ours. Originally produced by a Martian volcano some 1.3 billion years ago, the meteorite disintegrated over Egypt in 1911 , producing at least 40 individual shards that currently reside in a range of museums. Locals who witnessed the event claimed that one of those shards hit an unfortunate dog, who was …
Tags: · dogs, Egypt, meteoritics, Nakhla meteorite, reporting, urban legends
My relationship with the first-person voice gets a little deeper in the latest issue of Wired , which features my account of going full gonzo in the world of OnlyFans chat specialists. This is probably the most immersive assignment Iāve tackled since my 2010 foray into the culture and science of Alcoholics Anonymous ; it also required a lot of emotionally harrowing (albeit …
