Chanel Reynolds, the amazing widow activist from Get Your Shit Together suggested that the two of us do a panel together at SXSW 2014 about what we call the “Death Space.” The…
August 21, 2013 | Blog
Monthly Archives: August 2013
How to Fix Society, One Baboon Group at a Time
Chad Weber did such an excellent job in his last post on Stanford neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky, that we asked him back to talk Sapolsky’s work with baboons. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Robert Sapolsky goes to…
August 7, 2013 | Blog
Pamphlet from 1917 Shows Death Trends Are Never Ever Forever
My friend Susannah, urban preservationist extraordinaire, sent me this pamphlet from 1917 on Community Mausoleums in Chicago. The pamphlet is filled with high falutin’ rhetoric like, “Above all things we ask for…
August 1, 2013 | Blog