R. Colin Tait (TCU): The Screwball Bromance: Regression, Bisexuality, and Reconfigured Masculinity in Step Brothers. From The Baffler, why are all these TV screens still lurking and hanging around now that our gaze is buried in our phones? As things turned out, defeating the actual virus was easier than defeating the ideological one — but both kept Americans on their toes, and encouraged them to keep their hands clean. Kara Platoni on the 10,000 year clock: Somewhere out in Texas, a group is building a machine to challenge the human perception of time. Yep, the Oregon standoff is still going — and if anything it’s getting weirder. Kelly O’Brien on designing for a science fiction future: Design fiction is all about bringing science out of the laboratory and into a broader, more complicated, and more human context.
