To A Mountain In Tibet

To A Mountain In Tibet

I am travelling with this mystique myself, I know. It has grown out of childhood, and adolescent reading. This looking-glass Tibet is a realm of ancient learning lost to the rest of the world, rules by a lineage of monks who are reincarnations of divinity. Recessed...
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed

So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed

A few days before I flew to San Francisco to meet Adria, I posted a message on 4chan/b/ asking for anyone personally involved in her destruction to contact me. The message was deleted in less than a minute. I posted another request. That one vanished after a few...
Down Under: In A Sunburned Country

Down Under: In A Sunburned Country

…Cook was now free to go off and fulfill the second part of his assignment—to explore the lands of the South Seas and bring home anything that looked scientifically interesting. To this end, he had with him a brilliant and wealthy young botanist named Joseph...
Bamboo bikes in Sydney

Bamboo bikes in Sydney

Interested in getting a bamboo bike, and live in Sydney? Okay, that’s niche, but I did some research into this as a Sydney resident, coincidentally interested in getting a bamboo bike, so figured I’d jot it all down in case it’s useful for others....
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed

So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed

It turned out that public shaming had once been a process. A book of Delaware laws I discovered at the Massachusetts Historical Society revealed that if Jonah had been found guilty of “lying or publishing false news” in the 1800s, he would have been “fined, placed in...