Steep a Pot of Chinese Philosophy: This Princeton Business Owner is Selling Natural Balance

Health, harmony, and history with Paul Shu, owner of Holsome Teas and Herbs.

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First-Person Scooter: Full Design

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This week, the Nass surveys a hostile world, finds meaning in the senseless, and explores new ways to heal.

Escaping the Werewolf: Alex G, Deep Ecology, and Our Increasingly Hostile World

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“There are a million wolves hiding in the environmental substrate I’ve called speargrass. The reality is that they’re not even wolves. When they get home in the evening, they take off the wolfskin and look just like us.”

Corecore and the Logic of Montage

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“This genre’s title, corecore, makes a totalizing claim on the thousands of balkanized subgenres and subaesthetics that fleet past the user: only a certain set of objects and clips can be dazecore or college dormcore, but corecore encompasses all such ‘cores,’ all these oddly particular aesthetics.”

Wayward Lines: Setting a Soundtrack to Saidiya Hartman

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With Hartman on the page and Noname in the ears, a Nass writer examines the musical tradition of documenting Black struggle.

Twenty Years On

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“I was a swimmer in the night. The moon on my face, I dove off rocks and cliffs. I swim in my dreams and they sound like the breaths of fish past my face.”

A Sprawling Smallness

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“She wanted to relive the memories, the ephemeral emotions of happiness she felt when she was younger – unmolded. She did not account for the fact that she was a different person hoping to feel the sentiments of years ago.”

Prufrock’s Letters

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Mente mia, che presaga de’ tuoi damni, Al tempo lieto già pensosa e trista, Sí ‘ntentamente ne l’amata vista Requie cercavi de’ futuri afanni   1. Let us go now, til it be that all you and I can see … Read More

Nass Recommends: 100% Twilight Princess Speedrun (with Commentary) by YouTuber bewildebeast.

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In cheerful defense of shortcuts.

Carrot Cyanotype

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Loosening the Mother Tongue

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“When I learned about the darker history of Zionism, I needed to reverse so much of what I thought to be true while undoing my deepest personal and communal language. Like leaving a cult, my whole world was turned upside down as I tried to gather the pieces of what was once a coherent story.”

Mommy Issue: Full Design

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This week, the Nass tries new hobbies, new words, and new noises.

A dream of mending

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Our skies sink further into dust and while we wait for cloud-made seams, the earth tears limb from limb, and trusts that we will mend her — so it seems.   As fires rage through forests deep, we find ourselves … Read More

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