The Lost History of Australia’s Penguins
Jon Tennant enters the rift to find Australia’s penguins of past and present.
User Content Platforms Take the Heat for Artists’ Struggles at WIPO
Electronic Frontier Foundation goes to Switzerland, where technology once again is being blamed for not keeping alive the industries it was designed to replace. The word from WIPO.
Haiku 45
The latest collection of poems from the Star’s Andrew Hamlin.
Namaste Inc.
Namaste for tourism. Ansh Patel explores the marketing of India to the Western bourgeois, who have been sold on the idea that their impressions will be made real by compliant natives.
Quiet on the Border
Aaron Bady looks into Yuri Herrera’s novel, Signs Preceding the End of the World and tries to find the elusive borderland.
Sunday Comics
The Star’s Sunday Comics: Free of Cathy saying “Aack” since 2013.
Four things we can do now to unlock the cure for cancer
Creative Commons’ CEO Ryan Merkley continues the fight for cancer, with easy steps toward a real solution.
How Kevin Spacey is Altering Our Genes
Dr. Ricki Lewis discusses the absurdities of headlines about genetics in particular and science in general.
Fourteen Words
Poetry by toki about the elusiveness and the power of le mot juste.
All Things Return to the Chinatown Library Ten Minutes Before Close on a Weekday
Graham Isaac visits the International District Branch of the Seattle Public Library, and discovers it is actually the center of the world.
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