Ever since surviving my first winter here in Ithaca, I have learned to recognise the song of the robin (Turdus migratorius) as a welcome signal of spring. The warm trills vie with…
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TEBBUTT | Tough to Swallow: Ruminations of a (Self-)Righteous Vegetarian
There toll the jarring chimes of cognitive dissonance. It is a feeling I have become used to over the course of my 20s; the more secure the identities I build up, the…
TEBBUTT | Decline and Fall: How to Enjoy One Despite the Other
“In the end we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.” –Baba Dioum, 1968. Something unusual happened…
TEBBUTT | Decline and Fall: How to Enjoy One Despite the Other
“In the end we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.” –Baba Dioum, 1968. Something unusual happened…
TEBBUTT | Each Little Bird That Sings: Why Atheists Need Worship, Too
Each little flow’r that opens, each little bird that sings, He made their glowing colors, He made their tiny wings. As I walked out across the Slope in early spring, I heard…
TEBBUTT | Now We Are Become Death: Oppenheimer (et al.) In the Age of Co-authorship
Like you, I did not expect to walk out of Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and into the library with renewed inspiration to crunch my dissertation data. Like you, I couldn’t begin to justify…