A blog by paleoartist Clara Takahashi
It’s not exactly controversial to state that white men hold the most power of any demographic in the world today. But why? Did it have to be this way? Or if you ran a simulation of human history over again,...
If you’ve never read The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, I highly recommend it. It’s the true story of a kind of loser guy who spends all his unemployed time gaining the trust of the feral flock of parakeets that...
After doing a bunch of AI-assisted portraits of fictional characters for my creative writing endeavors, as well as having done a whole bunch of photorealistic bird sketches for my Deck of Birds, I thought I might finally be ready to...
There are lots of famous examples of mutualism, or two species cooperating to the benefit of each, in nature. Flowers and pollinators. Cleaner wrasse and sharks. Trees and mycelium. Tarantulas that keep tiny frogs as pets. But what about humans?...
If you saw my previous post, you’ll know that I’ve been working on a science fiction novel that includes some elements of speculative evolution. Spec evo, as it’s known in the trade, consists of applying the universal rules of natural...