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Баба-Яга … lives with her two sisters also called Baba Yaga in in a forest hut that spins continually on birds’ legs

… Baba Yaga is also the name used by an Ukrainian aerial reconnaissance unit under the command of Ruslan Mazovetsky, known as “Barmaley.” At the end of Claire Dederer’s Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma two things happen. Dederer admits to her own monstrosity. She’s a drunk. The other thing

this is …

I was so struck by this photo of Fritz Haber, I have done a … that thing where a lecturer or speaker shows a slide and then simply says, This is … in this case Fritz Haber. In the case I’m thinking of, it was Martin Heidegger which, in that case

Liberal Democracy

= truth defined by market competition.

— Benjamín Labatut, eating god

What I admire most about science is that it is completely unwilling to accept the many mysteries that surround us: it is stubborn, and wonderfully so. When it comes face to face with the unknown, it whips out a particle accelerator, a telescope, a microscope, and smashes reality to bits,

Dear Greens,

Kia ora Simon, I can feel it: the green wave is surging. I’m emailing you today from Tāmaki Makaurau where I’ve been visiting violence prevention organisations, and I can tell you that the momentum is growing. I’m invigorated by the aroha of people up and down Aotearoa,

Patrick Modiano’s Scene of the Crime bears

this epigraph, How many names have I etched in memory like “dog” or “elephant” or “cow” So long ago now, I recognize them only from afar, even the zebra–and what was it all for? — Rainer Maria Rilke Was hab ich mir für Namen eingeprägt und Hund und Kuh und

fresh from the Mouse vs the Meataxe

the Right Honourable Chris Hipkins vs Leader of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition of New Zealand (wiki) Christopher Luxon played on the television last night, the first of the leaders’ debates for this year’s election, 14 October 2023. It was moderated by 1News Political Editor Jessica Mutch McKay and