WasteFlake

The Wasteflake Project starts conversations on culture and science.
The Wasteflake Project is currently being remodeled. Existing users can still login and add material but we are not actively seeking participants. If you would like a new a user id created or the password of an existing user reset please send email to wasteman at wasteflake.com.



Work in progress at Wasteflake, linked here for your consideration:

• The Monitors: How to Overthrow the Empire One Graduate Student at a Time, K. Kris Hirst's serial sciency-fiction social satire novel published one or two chapters at a time on Fridays beginning July 1, 2022.
• Monitor Quotes compiled from all the chapters.

1. Poetry
   • Cybeleration
   • After the Ice Storm
   • Walking through forest, gathering scattered thoughts
2. TravelsDownTheRabbitHoleWithSteve
3. Background Checks Stories digging into the meaning of news breaks (these are the most recent)
   • Was the Opium Poppy Domesticated in Northern Europe?
   • Collaborative Rock Art Studies in Australia
   • Early Bronze Age Money of Neck Rings
   • Human-Altered Diversity of the Amazon Rainforest
   • The Everlasting Unextinguished Legacy of Palimpsests
   • Desert Flowering in Byzantine Farming Villages in the Negev
4. HaveUniverseNeedName
5. Sour Grapes and Saddle Sores Latest posted
   1. The Middle People
   2. FYI: Genetically Modified Organisms
   3. Taken for Granted
6. Wonderful Things
7. Book Reviews
8. Book of Frauds
9. Archaeology Films updated 30 May 2021
10. It's AboutTime
11. Recovered Articles from About and Dot-Dash Most current only
    1. Altered States of Consciousness
    2. The Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
    3. History of Plazas and Patios
    4. Hoards and Caches in Archaeology
    5. Yersinia pestis and the Bubonic Plague
    6. The Lost Library of Alexandria
    7. Terra Preta, Ancient Composting, and Biochar in the Amazon
12. Opinions
    1. Batter Catcher Ump
    2. What To Do If You Can't Find Cheap Labor? Raise Your Wages.
    3. Open letter to Grassley and Ernst
    4. Cassandra and the Republican Senate
13. Favorite Word Puzzles
14. PeerReview — just what is it? Is the Wasteflake Project an example of expanded peer review, or an entirely new kind of peer review?
15. Popular images of science and scientists: see Cornelius' position paper on PopularArchaeology and discuss images of popular archaeology in the forum.
16. Fiction! See WasteflakeFiction for stories, both finished and in progress.
    1. The Encyclopedia of Minor Deities
    2. Jiffy Kleen and the Total Perspective Vortex
17. SpamArt. If enough users, at enough keyboards, enter enough subject lines from spam, will it be art?
18. MoreWasteflake — everything from MixologicalScience to SoWhatsUp.
    1. Quotations
    2. Finding a Specialist

• WasteflakeManifesto
• WasteflakeSupport
• WasteflakeWorkings
• WasteflakeBibliography
• Wasteflake ToDo

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