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  • 🧠 Brain Static #11: Crows Have Receipts

    Here’s an unnecessary fact for your Monday: Crows can remember human faces. For YEARS. Researchers at the University of Washington wore specific masks while capturing and banding crows. Later, the birds still reacted angrily to people wearing the “dangerous” masks—and other crows could learn that those faces were bad news just by watching the original…

  • Sunday Things #11

    This week felt like somebody put my life on shuffle. There was absolutely no transition between anything. One minute I was sick. The next I was dancing. Then there were children. So many children. A brand-new baby entered the world. Somebody threw a desk. Somebody else refused to nap. And apparently my boyfriend can sleep…

  • 🐇 Down the Rabbit Hole #3: The Color in Your Head Might Not Exist

    I want you to do something before we start. Pick something near you that has a distinct color. Your shirt. A coffee cup. A blanket. A book. Whatever. Look at it for a few seconds. Really look at the color. Now look away. Don’t cheat. Try to picture the exact color you just saw. Not…

  • 📷 Learning to Look Closer #12: Between the Songs

    Concert photography makes you want to chase the obvious moments. The singer at the microphone. The lights hitting perfectly. The crowd with their hands in the air. The big moments. But sometimes I like the ones in between better. I took this photo at the concert, and there isn’t actually a whole lot happening in…

  • Between the Lines #9: The Missing Second

    Some poems begin with a story already attached to them. This one didn’t. It started with one line: The clock skipped a tickand my heart skipped a beat. I liked the way those two things mirrored each other—the clock and the heart both missing something at exactly the same moment. But then I started thinking…

  • 🧠 Brain Static #10

    The speed of a computer mouse is measured in “mickeys.” Yes. Mickeys. A British scientist first invented the roller-ball device in 1946 while working for the Royal Navy, but the word “mouse” didn’t come along until 1965. Which means somewhere along the way, somebody looked at the computer mouse and apparently decided its movement needed…

  • Sunday Things #10

    Some weeks make absolutely no sense while you’re living them. You just keep moving from one thing to the next, wondering what the hell could possibly happen now. And then Sunday gets here. You look back at everything that happened over the last seven days and realize… Oh. Apparently the answer was a lot. 😂…

  • History After Dark #5: Was 536 Really the Worst Year to Be Alive?

    Imagine waking up one morning and realizing the sun looks wrong. Not gone. Not hidden behind an ordinary layer of clouds. Just…wrong. The light is there, but it doesn’t seem to have the strength it should. Days pass, and whatever is happening doesn’t go away. The sun keeps rising, but its brightness doesn’t fully return.…

  • Between the Lines #8: Little Star

    Some poems start with an idea. Others start with a line you’ve known so long that you almost don’t hear the words anymore. “Twinkle, twinkle, little star…” It’s one of the first songs a lot of us learn as children. We sing it before we know what stars actually are. Before we understand distance. Before…

  • 📷 Learning to Look Closer #10

    I think one of my favorite things about doing this series is realizing that I don’t actually have to go looking for something worth photographing. Most of the time, it’s already there. I just have to notice it. And apparently this week, the things that made me stop ranged from a tiny gothic sticker on…