Paradox of Tolerance
June 8, 2019 | Blog
Karl Popper:
In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance.
Existential Sweater
May 22, 2019 | Comics
A woolly garment asks the big questions
In this comic, a fashionable sweater has an existential crisis while in conversation with a rubber duck.
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.
There might be a crow comic in here somewhere.
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.
Comic idea – Robot and Francis visit a planet where the indigenous species went extinct from sadness.
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.
Everybody worships something – children, beauty, political identities, etc.
Crows and Natural Selection
February 18, 2019 | Comics
More crows, naturally
In this comic, the crows discuss how natural selection has effected their lives.
Lofty Whales
February 5, 2019 | Comics
Harold the whale can fly!
In this comic, Harold is a very optimistic whale who discovers he has a new ability. He can fly!
Hazel Loves the Printer
December 22, 2018 | Comics
Click-whir! Hazel comes running
In this comic, Hazel the cat loves many things, but nothing as much as the printer.
Crows Chewing Gum
October 21, 2018 | Comics
Crows and candy
In this comic, the crows discuss the challenges of having a sweet tooth.