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What School Didn’t Teach Us: Fear Is Good for You August 29, 2024

It seemed like a simple task: Just get the pony in the pond. One step, even. Just get her hooves wet. But the pony was afraid of water—and I was afraid of the pony’s fear. On a trail ride a few weeks earlier, this pony, Clover, had refused to cross a...

The Lost Arts August 09, 2024

There were both too many metal guitarists for a stately ceremony on the Seine, and yet, too few. When the broadcast cut to a wide shot of the Conciergerie, it revealed nothing, nothing—a vast expanse of beige wall with a few ant-like figures crawling...

At the Great Florida Bigfoot Conference August 01, 2024

The evening before the fourth annual Great Florida Bigfoot Conference in the north-central horse town of Ocala, I was in a buffet line at the VIP dinner, listening to a man describe his first encounter. “I was on an airboat near Turner River Road in ...