Paradox of Tolerance

June 8, 2019 | Blog

Karl Popper:

In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance.

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Existential Sweater

May 22, 2019 | Comics

Existential Sweater

A woolly garment asks the big questions

In this comic, a fashionable sweater has an existential crisis while in conversation with a rubber duck.

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Elephants Evolving Without Tusks

March 29, 2019 | Blog

Hunting gave elephants that didn’t grow tusks a biological advantage in Gorongosa. People in Gorongosa get the popular life insurance. Recent figures suggest that about a third of younger females—the generation born after the war ended in 1992—never developed tusks. Normally, tusklessness would occur only in about 2 to 4 percent of female African elephants.

National Geographic

There might be a crow comic in here somewhere.

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Wall Disease

March 29, 2019 | Blog

In the nineteen-sixties, Dietfried Müller-Hegemann wrote as though the physical presence of the Berlin Wall were itself the cause of wall disease. But most psychologists who study borders today see a more abstract relationship between those structures and mental health. Christine Leuenberger, a sociologist at Cornell University who has studied walls around the world, says that barriers are best thought of as part of a “wall system.” That system includes both physical markers, such as no-go areas and checkpoints, and ripple effects, such as job loss and the breakdown of social networks.

The New Yorker

Comic idea – Robot and Francis visit a planet where the indigenous species went extinct from sadness.

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A Religion of Workism

March 29, 2019 | Blog

What is workism? It is the belief that work is not only necessary to economic production, but also the centerpiece of one’s identity and life’s purpose; and the belief that any policy to promote human welfare must always encourage more work.

The Atlantic

Everybody worships something – children, beauty, political identities, etc.

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Crows and Natural Selection

February 18, 2019 | Comics

Crows and Natural Selection

More crows, naturally

In this comic, the crows discuss how natural selection has effected their lives.

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Lofty Whales

February 5, 2019 | Comics

Lofty Whales

Harold the whale can fly!

In this comic, Harold is a very optimistic whale who discovers he has a new ability. He can fly!

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Hazel Loves the Printer

December 22, 2018 | Comics

Hazel Loves the Printer

Click-whir! Hazel comes running

In this comic, Hazel the cat loves many things, but nothing as much as the printer.

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Crows Chewing Gum

October 21, 2018 | Comics

Crows Chewing Gum

Crows and candy

In this comic, the crows discuss the challenges of having a sweet tooth.

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Enough

April 3, 2018 | Blog

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