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Forensic Topology - Geoff Manaugh 2 Apr 2013 | 12:33 am
In the 1990s, Los Angeles held the dubious title of “bank robbery capital of the world.” At its height, the city’s bank crime rate hit the incredible frequency of one bank robbed every forty-five minu...
Mode of Death - Leland de la Durantaye 1 Apr 2013 | 09:15 pm
I. Death and fashion are sisters, though not everyone knows this. They have known periods of estrangement, but these have been without cause, for they share not only a mother but a calling. It is wit...
Into the Woods - Dan Handel 2 Jan 2013 | 03:08 am
“Brandis, so he told me, had traversed the woods of Pegu riding an elephant on such trails as there were, with four sticks in his left hand and a pocketknife in his right. Whenever he saw in the bambo...
Shaved Heads, Snipped Tubes, Imperial Marines, and Dope Fiends - George Pendle 2 Jan 2013 | 03:03 am
Can a false god deliver real miracles? Take the case of Charles E. Dederich, better known as Chuck. A more unlikely figure of divinity would be hard to imagine. Born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1913, Dederich...
Seashell Sound - Stefan Helmreich 2 Jan 2013 | 02:55 am
Shell of the bright sea-waves! What is it, that we hear in thy sad moan? Is this unceasing music all thine own? Lute of the ocean-caves! Or does some spirit dwell In the deep windings of thy chamber...
The Coldscape - Nicola Twilley 2 Oct 2012 | 03:34 am
More than three-quarters of the food consumed in the United States today is processed, packaged, shipped, stored, and sold under artificial refrigeration. The shiny, humming stainless steel box in you...
Reimagining Recreation - James Trainor 1 Apr 2012 | 04:00 pm
There was a child went forth every day, / And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder, pity, love, or dread, that object he became, / And that object became part of him for the day, o...
Heavy Breeding - Michael Wang 1 Apr 2012 | 04:00 pm
In 1920, the brothers Lutz and Heinz Heck, directors of the Berlin and Munich zoos, respectively, began a two-decade breeding experiment. Working with domestic cattle sought out for their “primitive” ...
On Why Soup Is So Bad for Diurnal Rhythms - Sally O'Reilly 2 Jan 2012 | 02:00 am
This contribution to Cabinet’s “24 Hours” issue was completed in 23 hours, 23 minutes. The following is a chapter, written specifically for this project, of Crude, a novel in progress. The story so f...
Adventure on the Vertical - Mark Dorrian 2 Jan 2012 | 02:00 am
Micromegas Introducing W. Watson-Baker’s 1935 book, World Beneath the Microscope, the English artist and critic William Gaunt wrote: We are no longer so excited as formerly by the account of trips on...
