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What Lurks Beneath? Sewer Monsters throughout the Ages

Indoor plumbing is one of the greatest advancements of our civilization, it allows fresh running water and waste disposal at our fingertips. This technology meant huge underground structures… Read more “What Lurks Beneath? Sewer Monsters throughout the Ages”

When we throw around the word cynic casually, it usually refers to someone who distrusts the motives of others while looking down on them. This is a… Read more “It’s A Dog’s Life: The Roots of Cynical Philosophy”

Protecting food and grain stores was a vital element of survival in ancient times, so while ancient Egyptians were busy breeding domesticated cats to keep mice and… Read more “Greco-Roman Weasels: Magic, Midwives, and Vengeful Brides”

We live in an age of mythological proportions; animals that have been driven extinct are now being resurrected from the dead. There are, of course, moral implications… Read more “Romulus and Remus: Humans Playing Gods, Gods Playing Humans”

Ah Lady luck… when she shines down upon you your life becomes so easy, joyous in fact, but once she takes her gaze away the storm clouds… Read more “Lady Luck: How to Keep the Goddess Smiling”

Have you ever had the misfortune of being told by a potentially well intentioned, but certainly misguided, individual that: “you need to pull yourself up by your… Read more “An Impossible Idiom: Pulling Yourself Up by the Bootstraps”

Once upon a time, Aphrodite, the Greek Goddess of Love, was bathing in the Sacred River Achelous, the largest river in Greece. Now, Achelous was a Titan,… Read more “The Fountain of Salmacis: Transgenderism in Greek Mythology”

The Goddess Seshat was related to Thoth, the God of wisdom and learning, who brought writing and Hieroglyphs to the Egyptian people. Most accounts consider Seshat to… Read more “Goddess Seshat: She Who is Foremost in the Library”

Snow White is one of the staples of the modern fairytale cannon, and as a feminist, I would not be the first to take umbrage with some… Read more “Snow White: Age is More Than Just a Number”

All things come to pass, and ego, while it can drive big things bigly (to borrow from King Donald), ego has a way of upending itself. No… Read more “Indra’s Ants and the Fall of the House of Musk”