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Lumi(Ne)scent: A Tribute to Neon

by Klaas Walhout | Nov 12, 2020 | Pennsylvania

Neon, the element named for the concept of novelty itself, is now hanging onto its public relevance by a thread of nostalgia.

Lanthanum, Uranium, Rhenium, Nitrogen

by Lauren Cole | Nov 11, 2020 | Placeless

Perhaps what was most interesting to me about chemistry was the very fact that we could study something that was too small to see.

Bromine

by Jordan Petersen Kamp | Nov 10, 2020 | Placeless

Along with portmanteaus like “Broseph” or “Broso” (for Spanish class), calling your friend “Bromine” in chemistry class was surely hilarious exactly one time but was still repeated many more times.

The Ethics of Iron Farming

by Gwyneth Findlay | Nov 9, 2020 | Placeless

Still, naturally sourced iron barely meets the demands of even a one-step-above-casual player. Enter: iron farms.

Praise Ye the God of Gold

by Josh Parks | Nov 8, 2020 | Placeless

How many times have Christians, distracted by their frantic, sixteenth-note lives, mistaken idolatry for piety?

Promethium

by Susannah Boersma | Nov 7, 2020 | Iowa, Michigan

If you haven’t read this masterpiece, please do yourself a favor and Amazon Prime that sucker in time for some weekend reading.

Bringer of Light

by Alex Johnson | Nov 5, 2020 | Massachusetts

Honestly, I have a plethora of metaphors to explore already: Satan can seem to bring light to the world but that isn’t the true light! Exposing things to the daylight makes them less dangerous! Capitalism makes people operate in a scarcity model which hinders progress!

The Fate of Our Pianos

by Comfort Sampong | Nov 4, 2020 | Placeless

And today, when I feel less than my full self in the midst of such urgency to be our best selves, I sway dangerously close to becoming firewood.

All Creatures Great and Small

by Ansley Kelly | Nov 3, 2020 | Pennsylvania

The rawness of this proximity to life makes me feel vulnerable, sort of like therapy but without the armchairs.

Cl

by Cotter Koopman | Nov 2, 2020 | Placeless

My brain shut off seeing “3-chloro-4-dichloromethyl5-hydroxy-2(5H)-furanone.”

For Those Who Feel Numb

by Katerina Parsons | Nov 1, 2020 | Placeless

I don’t want to think about the election right now.

Hallmark and Heaven

by Natasha (Strydhorst) Unsworth | Oct 30, 2020 | Placeless

Oh no, Hallmark, I think it’s quite likely I already care far too much about the assorted unnecessary objects in that unasked-for packet.

Pack It Up

by Ethan Stafford | Oct 29, 2020 | Florida, Indiana

I’d be lying if I said I didn’t contemplate the busted door as a sign from God that I should stay home, but I brushed that off right quick.

Learn for Life

by Jon Gorter | Oct 28, 2020 | Placeless

If you were placed into a story about first dates, you’d better know your fish diseases.

“Hello, Zuko Here.”

by Anna Jeffries | Oct 27, 2020 | Placeless

Am I really supposed to make a purple sandwich out of this mess?

November 9, 2016

by Annaka Koster | Oct 26, 2020 | England

The professor in charge of my primary tutorial would, in what conservative pundits would later call “a total snowflake move,” offer to move back the due date on that week’s essay.