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Incidentally, there appears to be a whole mysterious world out there filled with dynamic Indigenous-chic Peruvian singers from the 1950s…
Today is another day for silent film lust and desperation.Arthur Posnansky, everyone’s favorite fantastic and fantastical Bolivian archaeologist, produced a silent…
Lately I have been working several days a week at a small museum that was once the home of a…
There are two known remaining samples of the smallpox virus (in Russia and the US) and they have been condemned…
Perhaps this is a symptom of my distorted mental map of the Greek world, but until earlier this week I…
As I have discussed before, I spend either a surprising or unsurprising amount of time thinking about uncontacted people. Any…
Lately I have been thinking a lot about lost cities. To be more specific, the popular fantasy that an ‘intact’,…
As I fall into a swirl of sensory stimulation, I give more thanks to the Library of Congress for providing…
