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Your Likeness in Cheese, and Other News
Vincenzo Campi, The Ricotta Eaters, 1580. Via Wikimedia Commons. Gift idea: cheese portraits. The medium is the message here—this cheese is made with bacteria cultivated from your mouth or toes. It’s...
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Notes from the Milk Cave
Breastfeeding and boredom. Detail from Stanisław Wyspiański’s Motherhood, 1902. “You are an animal,” my husband told me. We were in bed. The context was not what you’d expect. A baby was latched onto...
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Revere the Fig, Pity the Fig Wasp, and Other News
From a package of California Fig Syrup Company’s “Syrup of Figs” laxative. Friends, the great march of progress continues apace. The word bawbag—“a Scots word meaning scrotum, in Scots vernacular a...
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Rules for Consciousness in Mammals
Clarice Lispector. Anyone who talks about Clarice Lispector and psychoanalysis is likely to say something foolish, not least because psychoanalysis is a discipline of listening, not talking. And, in...
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