Your First Glimpse of a New Voice in African American Horror, Chesya Burke
Chesya Burke is winning lots of buzz for her poetic short stories, which deal with race and weirdness in the heart of small town America. And now we’ve got an exclusive excerpt from her new story collection, Let’s Play White. This excerpt comes from the novella, “The Teachings and Redemption of Ms. Fannie Lou Mason,”…
If You Could Freeze Your Age, Which Age Would You Choose?
I recently wrote a novel called “The Postmortal” in which a scientist discovers a way to stop the human body from aging. You can still die after taking this cure. You can get shot or get AIDS or whatever. But your age stays the same. In the book, people freeze their age at various points.…
15 Years of Cutting-Edge Thinking on Understanding the Mind
What do mirror neurons have to do with Abu Ghraib, the science of religion, and how happiness flourishes? For the past 15 years, literary-agent-turned-crusader-of-human-progress John Brockman has been a remarkable curator of curiosity, long before either “curator” or “curiosity” was a frivolously tossed around buzzword. His Edge.org has become an epicenter of bleeding-edge insight across…
The Complete History of Time Paradoxes
Nowadays, we take for granted the idea that if you go travel back in time and interact with your own past, you can create a huge crazy time paradox. But who first came up with this idea? Who created the first time paradox? And can we go back and prevent him or her from doing…