Clive Derby-Lewis

01Griffin's 'Pornography and Silence' (1981) used close readings of Hugh Hefner's published manifestos to argue pornography was hatred wearing the costume of desire.
02Her 1978 'Woman and Nature' was composed in two alternating voices — one the authoritative voice of Western science, one the body it was describing.
03Griffin was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1980 partly on the strength of work her own academic department had refused to recognize as scholarship.

An electric steam iron

Corybantian dance , the type of dance most likely danced on Gymnopedia festivals (image from Smith 's Dictionary of Antiquities ).

Figure 1. The arrangement of hydrogen atoms (black circles) about oxygen atoms (open circles) in ice. Two hydrogen atoms (bottom ones) are close to the central oxygen atom while two of them (top ones) are far and closer to the two other…

Clive Derby-Lewis

Conservative Party MP Clive Derby-Lewis compiled a typed hit list of senior ANC figures and handed it to Janusz Waluś — Chris Hani's name was on page one. The list also included Nelson Mandela.

Susan Griffin

Susan Griffin's 1978 book 'Woman and Nature' interleaved passages about scientific objectivity, factory farming, and the Nazi medical experiments on Jewish women to argue they were the same cognitive operation. She wrote it as prose poetry, not argument.

Theia (hypothetical planet)

A Mars-sized body called Theia struck the proto-Earth 4.5 billion years ago; the vaporized debris ring cooled into the Moon. Earth's closest companion is the corpse of a collision.

Clothes iron

Named from the Old English 'sæd,' meaning solid — not sorrowful — the sad iron was a 6-pound cast-iron slab heated directly on the stove. Women rotated three irons to maintain one usable temperature.

1995 Tour de France

Fabio Casartelli died on Stage 15; the peloton rolled neutralized through Stage 16 the next morning, completing the course where he was killed — the race did not stop.

Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney woke one morning in 1964 with a full melody in his head, rushed to the piano, and spent weeks playing it for strangers to confirm he hadn't stolen it. The song became 'Yesterday' — recorded by over 2,200 artists.

Gymnopaedia

At the Gymnopaedia, naked Spartan youths danced in full summer sun on the Spartan agora for days — a festival honoring the dead of Thyreatis. The audience was the entire citizen body.

Spin ice

In dysprosium titanate crystals cooled near absolute zero, magnetic charges separate and move independently — behaving exactly like isolated north-only monopoles that physics said could not exist as free particles.

Menander I

Greek king Menander I ruled a Buddhist kingdom in modern Pakistan around 150 BCE. He debated Buddhist monks so rigorously that, at his death, multiple cities demanded his ashes — and split them, relic by relic, like the Buddha himself.