August 13 – 17, 2018 Except for Cameron, beginning and ending the week with sweet cheer, LWON seems to be having trouble getting through it all ok. Cameron grows zucchini and like anyone else who does, knows she need friends. And friends aren’t necessarily those guys on social media, they’re the guys who take zucchini. […]
July 23 – 27, 2018 Oh my goodness gracious sakes alive and it’s Snark Week, LWON’s answer to the blithering obviousness of Shark Week, We bring you the creatures that are infinitely more likely to do you wrong. Erik warns you about the burrowing owl, a creature of a vast underground crime syndicate who decorates […]
July 2 – 6, 2018 I start the week with a bad thought: the part of your mind that’s the general contractor, the project manager, the executive? It’s good at making decisions, not so good at knowing when the poor idiot carrying them out is splatted on the ground weeping. On a stormy night, Jessa […]
The latest of many, many tweets by many, many people all saying the same thing: “Ok, but for serious: is anyone else having trouble writing anything at all because everything is just Too Much right now?” Or: “I’ve tried to make coffee 4 times so far & failed. Writing is just Not Going To Happen.” […]
Early last week on Twitter, some National Security Agency posters showed up, reminding NSA employees to watch what they said. @AnnFinkbeiner: Do NSA people really need that much reminding? They’re not reminded, they run around singing like birds? @father_kipz: To be honest, humans are social animals and easy to hack. The constant reminders probably do […]
June 4 – 8, 2018 What with skepticism, inability to write, being wrong about stuff, and beautiful digressions into tying shoes and power outages, this week seems quintessentially LWONian. LOSE WEIGHT FAST! BY FASTING! Restrict your calorie intake to 500 per day! You’ll be slender and willowy and extraordinarily attractive! But, says Cassie, probably not! […]
Ok, I thought, I’m an astro writer, I got this. For one thing, you wouldn’t use astroseismology to look at the pulses of a pulsating white dwarf: pulses are relatively long, astroseismology looks for little jitters. For another, AG spelled it “asteroseismology,” laughably wrong. After further investigation, the astro writer learns a lesson: never second-guess […]
May 21 – 25, 2018 Sarah’s ingenious new way of measuring the heat index: a finely-calibrated, exquisitely-sensitive dogmometer. You won’t know how you lived without one. Jenny’s guide to the healthiest ingestion of insects (it’s called entomophagy, but you already knew that) includes nutritive value and the all-important assessment of flavor. Former Person of LWON, […]