Google’s proliferation has made technology feel less like magic and more commonplace, like in 2004 when Gmail launched online storage limits, how much we could “save” of our lives—became obsolete. But Joseph Price’s fantasy became reality and his happiness soared.
The Immortal Jellyfish
Can a Jellyfish Unlock the Secret of Immortality? Last winter, when The New York Times Magazine ran a feature under that headline, the idea of a creature that lives on and on with no biological death captured many readers’ imaginations. Turns out it’s real. It’s a hydrozoa called Turritopsis dorhnii, and it routinely reverts from […]
Shrimp & Griots
It’s not a coincidence that so many solo performers touch on isolation in the stories they tell. These are individuals who, more often than not, had the spotlight shined on them in some way before they ever stepped onstage, and often not for the right reasons.
There Is a Happiness That Morning Is
– a play written in rhyming couplets and so your reviewer rises to the challenge – If you teach a poet two hundred years’ dead, it’s not surprising that you could be led to a dalliance, but the stakes get raised when your taste for outdoor sex leaves you appraised in your humping by the […]