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What Can ‘Animal Crossing’ Tell Us About the Past and Present of Natural History Museums?

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Amid the COVID crisis, museums are being reinvented online in ways that harken back to past ways of representing the natural world.

Callum Angus May 12, 2020 gaming, media studies, museums

When duty texts, remember that you have read-receipt on

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A jittery world watches fascism on the march from Bolivia to India, and Twitter importantly doubles down on Indian food.

Alex Sayf Cummings November 30, 2019 Aneurysms, Best of

This Week’s Farm-to-Table Aneurysms: The Agony and the Ocasio

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This week proved that, in the Trump era, one week can actually not be more horrible than the […]

Alex Sayf Cummings July 4, 2018 Aneurysms

The Deep, Frustrating, Complicated History of the Anti-Vax Movement

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Do you feel feverish? Impotent? Suffer from ADD? You might have been vaccinated! Call the attorneys at Tropics […]

Guest July 10, 2017 Doomed to Repeat, medical history, science, the body

Tropics of Meta “Staffers” Pick the Best of 2014

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Each year, Tropics of Meta’s intrepid team of cultural critics reports on the best of the year’s music, movies, […]

Guest December 12, 2014 Best of, gender, music, politics

Using Science Fiction to Teach History (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Distant Future)

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I have been reluctant to use fiction in my courses.  This is despite the fact that my own […]

Alex Sayf Cummings March 12, 2013 Education, fiction, pedagogy
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