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Occam's Razor An unmarked intersection of literature with science where logic wrecks often occur.

English - Writing, Philosophy, Fiction

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Occam's Razor · 1M ago

A Postulation on Baseball Curses

As the young baseball season builds up a good head of steam, I thought that now would be a good time to ruminate on the idea of curses in baseball and how they originated and the raw science behind them.

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Occam's Razor · 7M ago

A Taxonomy of Very Short Fiction

If our attention span, as some experts have claimed, has shortened, and is now somehow inversely proportional to a lengthening life span, perhaps the speed at which data streams and changes has made us impatient to the point of frustration with any wait at all, even a wait for a conclusion, should t

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Occam's Razor · 2Y ago

Camera Obscura Journal

Camera Obscura Journal now open for submissions

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Occam's Razor · 2Y ago

Industrial Fung Shui and the Art of Pollution

The sky is your canvas and on a clear day, a clean cerulean slate with which to work. Every decision affects the chi of your factory within its frame: a valley cut by a river, sandwiched between rolling hills. Smokestacks should be spread apart for maximum coverage and staggered, allowing the roilin

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Occam's Razor · 2Y ago

MacGuffin Spring/Summer 2009

MacGuffin Spring/Summer 2009 Cover - Sue Averell While some small press publications do survive, even fewer thrive. Many wind up as squashed bugs on the literary radiator grill in a matter of a few years, and in some cases, months. The MacGuffin has been around since 1984. I hope it lasts anoth

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Occam's Razor · 2Y ago

Mother Earth: Not Just Mars in Drag

The Green movement, not unlike any other call for societal change, is propelled by one gallon of science, a pint of conscience, and two (or three) loads of bandwagon (what ultimately makes it a movement). This bandwagon–I’ll call it a “band-station-wagon” (maybe one of those mythical Chrysler electr

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Occam's Razor · 2Y ago

The Weather is Here. Wish You Were Beautiful.

At the risk of having my “green” card revoked, I will admit that I’ve always enjoyed driving my car, preferably a five-speed junker from another decade, a car with stories to tell. Even in Europe where a grid of passenger trains connects the rural crevices with the urban armpits, I clung to my road-

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Occam's Razor · 2Y ago

Words in a Box : A Literary Gedankenexperiment

Imagine that in order to determine how much money to pay the author (very wishful thinking), the local independent bookseller had to first calculate the velocity of the books as they flew off the shelves (more wishful thinking for the author and the indie bookseller). I’ll also add the constraint: t

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Occam's Razor · 3Y ago

Gravity Well

All M.C. Escher works (c) 2009 The M.C. Escher Company - the Netherlands. All rights reserved. Used by permission. www.mcescher.com My daughter has a game in which a battery-operated elephant shoots plastic butterflies up into the air from its trunk. Meanwhile, everyone lucky enough to have one of

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Occam's Razor · 3Y ago

Where to begin…Literary Pheromones

Recently in Frigg, consistently one of the best online literary journals, in an issue filled with compelling ultra-shorts by some great writers, I ran across a lively debate between Randall Brown and Joseph Young about the true definition of microfiction. It is insightful and entertaining. I can see

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