Our Corpse Flower (Amorphophallus titanum) Wallpaper mask features “Stinky” in his Denver Botanic Garden habitat. A corpse flower in captivity takes 7-10 years to bloom the first time and is unpredictable thereafter. Thus, we felt quite privileged to join the long lines to smell the garbagy, putrefying smell in 2018. I wrote about that bitter-sweet-stinky experience in “Corpse Flower Revisited, Briefly in Bloom at the Denver Botanic Gardens.” Alabaster Rhumb took the photo of Stinky and designed our Corpse Flower …
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Scent Tracking, Dark Dining, & Other Sensations * Interview with Lawrence Rosenblum, Perceptual Psychologist
*See What I’m Saying: The Extraordinary Powers of Our Five Senses is one of my favorite nonfiction reads in recent years. In it Lawrence Rosenblum, a perceptual psychologist and professor at UC Riverside, explains how our brains are so often taking in more of the world than we are aware, that we are perceiving much more than we are conscious of. From echolocation to our multisensory appreciation of food, Rosenblum makes connections between the super senses of exceptional cases—like blind …
“The Whole Entire World Ever” * Fiction * Caitlin Hernandez
*We are delighted to present our first-ever fan fiction! Written in response to “Restoring the Effigy,” by M. Leona Godin. “The Whole Entire World Ever” is a prequel written from the point of view of Effie’s little girl Artemis on their mother-daughter trip to San Francisco. Leona admits to tucking in an embellishment or two amongst Caitlin’s beautiful words* Last year, I had the best hairstyles of anyone in first grade. Mom can do hair a bazillion different ways, …
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