(although, of course, life is nothing like stained glass)
Stained glass starts the way everything starts. First draw a pattern. This is important: Choose only beautiful glass. Trace your pattern onto the glass with a marker. To cut glass, score a line. It is...
View ArticleYour Awkward Brain: Adventures in Your Own Neurology
Figure 1: Admire That Noble Manly Brow, That Contains Vast Quantities of Perceptiveness This is a post about how your brain works and develops. It contains science-writing and CAPSLOCK and is slightly...
View ArticleYour Name Is Survivor: Part One
Your name is Survivor, of the House of the Vaulted Sky. You are a child of the Family of Long Grass and the Twisted Tree. You are of the Genus that Walks the World. You may have traveled to the Cities...
View ArticleCups Runneth Over: Love, Lifestyle, and Clothing Tips for Large-Busted Ladies
Figure 1. Let’s open the floor by demonstrating how to be a Fool on the Internet. REVEL IN THE BELLY FAT! SO YOU ARE A PERSON WITH BOOBS AND THEY ARE EXTREMELY LARGE. THAT IS FANTASTIC!!!! WE HAVE SO...
View ArticleTH-GH: When Fat Women Made the World Go Round
Figure 1: The Woman of Willendorf, a 24,000 year old stone carving from Austria. Previously on The Hunter-Gatherer Heresies, we looked at the myth that Men the Hunters Are Innately And Biologically...
View ArticleTH-GH: Hunter-Gatherers Are Not Extinct
Ah, another day! Yesterday, I had a refreshing fall down a flight of stairs, which left me disinclined to blog. Today, I am wiggling with rejuvenated energy. Time for some more Hunter-Gatherer...
View ArticleYou’re a Strange Man, Charlie Darwin
One of my favorite passages in Charles Darwin’s “The Voyage of the Beagle” is the one where Darwin nearly kills a toad with kindness. Since most people haven’t read VotB, I’ll reproduce it for you...
View ArticleThe Grey Dog Grief
When I took a part-time job, it seemed only logical that I should use my new days off to Write the Novel, or to keep a proper blog, or something – because that was what I’d always said, that I didn’t...
View ArticleReader Letter: Random Paper Airplanes
Dear Elodie: I ask this of you because you wrote the Adulthood Is A Scary Horse post, and I thought you might have some insight on Adult Things. I need some help with developing Consistency. I am good...
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