Tag: Reinventing
Reinventing the Dinosaur | The New Yorker
The original mount had three claws on each of those curiously short front arms; when paleontologists concluded that the T. rex had only two claws, one was plucked off each arm. In the early nineteen-nineties, more changes were made. The pose was altered. Its head and neck were lowered, so that it now looks more like a magnificent, giant, running chicken. Today, the T. rex stands only twelve feet above the ground at its highest point.
By one estimate, a
Reinventing Scotch Whisky | The New Yorker
To help him decide, MacFadyen had a set of small glass hydrometers that measure density; by indexing density and temperature, using a crumbling reference book from 1978, he could identify the percentage of alcohol in a sample. He opened a brass case marked “spirit safe,” inside of which there was a constant stream of spirit, pouring from a metal spout. He dipped a glass into the stream. What he caught didn’t taste like whisky at all—it was slightly smoky and
Two Creators on Inventing (and Reinventing) Black Superheroes
‘You Are a Threat to Them’
By Eve L. Ewing | Author of the Marvel series Ironheart
My Twitter notifications were a garbage fire. They said I had no talent, that I was a harbinger of everything that was going wrong in the comics industry. Some of them used coded language like “forced diversity.” Other messages, like a simple image of a burning cross, were more direct.
It was December 2017 and everything was a culture war; the world of