The Omnivore Scientist

Embassytown, Shadow Twinning, and My Conversation with ChatGPT

How reading China Miéville helped me learn about current LLM performance and opened a Pandora's box

Jul 19 • 

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Pickles, Posto, and Pokora: Forgotten Tastes of Bengal

In memory of my grandmother

Jul 2 • 

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March 2025

Hysteria, Femininity, and Nosferatu

The return of Gothic interpolation with historically neglected subtexts about mental health and female biology

Mar 17 • 

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February 2025

On Corvids

Or the life of an urban naturalist with a murder of crows outside her bedroom

Feb 19 • 

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November 2024

On the Resurgence of Psychoanalysis

Four contemporary books on psychoanalysis and its everlasting shadow on our culture

Nov 8, 2024 • 

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September 2024

The Terror on the Red Sea by Manabendra Pal

A Bengali Ghost Story

Sep 20, 2024 • 

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July 2024

Life of a Highly Sensitive Person and a Book Review

Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World by Jenn Granneman and Andre Sólo

Jul 17, 2024 • 

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June 2024

The Language of Everyday Smells

Book Review: The Smell of Fresh Rain by Barney Shaw

Jun 22, 2024 • 

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April 2024

On Righteous Female Rage: Part II

A spring nonfiction primer

Apr 11, 2024 • 

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February 2024

Bullshit Jobs and The Future of Work

David Graeber's argument against meaningless jobs

Feb 13, 2024 • 

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On Righteous Female Rage: Part I

How thirty-five years of nonconformist reading made me finally do a Medusa act

Feb 1, 2024 • 

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December 2023

The Ecophilosophy of Nausicaä: Part II

Mind of a bee, swarm intelligence, and connective tissue

Dec 17, 2023 • 

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