Readings Archives

Midnight Cowpoke

From September 23 proceedings in the case of Robert Melia, a police officer from Moorestown, New Jersey, who was videotaped engaging in sexual acts with calves in Southampton, New Jersey,…

Guest in the Machine

by Tamara Denning, Yoky Matsuoka, Tadayoshi Kohno,

From “Neurosecurity: Security and Privacy for Neural Devices,” by Tamara Denning, Yoky Matsuoka, and Tadayoshi Kohno, which appeared in July in Neurosurgical FOCUS. The authors are computer scientists at the…

Overgrowth

by Lisa Elmaleh,

You’re a Mean One, Mr. Klig

From an exchange of letters and emails between Steven Klig, a Long Island attorney, and an FBI agent posing as his ex-girlfriend. In October, Klig began blackmailing the woman, whose…

Sitting in darkness

by Mark Twain,

Long exposure with insects

by Simon Norfolk,

Correr es mi destino from Arizona/Mexico

The Splendid Splintered

From an October 7 press release by the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, a nonprofit organization in Scottsdale, Arizona, that cryonically preserves members’ heads or bodies “with the intent of restoring…

Mutations of immortality

by Jonathan Ball,

Pharaonic camp

Art by Bradley Castellanos,

Spin the Bottle

From minutes of a May 28 meeting of the BPA Joint Trade Association. Bisphenol A (BPA) is a compound commonly used in plastic bottles and the linings of cans. Numerous…

The Necessity of Agriculture

by Wendell Berry,

From a May 16 speech given in acceptance of the annual Louis Bromfield Society Award. Novelist and conservationist Louis Bromfield (1896–1956) was the author of over thirty works of fiction…