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Just So Everyone Remembers: Etymology of Geek
by Josh Clark | September 7, 2011
I’m very proud of the geek community. As the gay community did with the word queer, geeks wrested control of a disparaging term from the disparagers and took it as their own. What was once derisive is now a source of pride. That is all well and good; I think it’s important to remember what a geek once was, however, if at least only to preserve the really unique and weird original sense of the word alongside the new one.
A clown, one kindly beyond his ilk, so much so, in fact, that one can only suspect that he has a hidden agenda beyond the one he advertises, offers therapy for people who are afraid of clowns. I don’t trust clowns, and so likely I wouldn’t go, but I do think it’s necessary to tip the cap to the clown, Popol, named by his parents Peter Carpenter.
Biodiversity and Cirque du Soleil’s “oVo”
by Robert Lamb | November 24, 2010
When I read that Cirque du Soleil’s “oVo” was about biodiversity, I grew very curious. The shows are always lavishly produced and skillfully performed, but could I really hope to leave the circus tent with a new appreciation for the worlds of insects and arachnids? I mean, I generally leave Cirque to answer questions like, “Is it humanly possible to touch the back of your skull with your own tailbone?” I don’t expect much in the way of a science lecture.
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