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On theorizing reality in the time of disasters and violence
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Karmela Padavic Callaghan
Media/Diet (February '25)
Unflesh by Gazelle Twin + steaming beets without a steamer
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Extra: You Can’t Network Your Way Out of Oppression
On being a gender minority in a professional setting
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Karmela Padavic Callaghan
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Media/Diet (January '25)
Becoming Earth by Ferris Jabr + breakfast smoothie
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Extra: How to Eat More Plants in 2025
Notes on vegan, or plant-forward, cooking from an obsessive home cook
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Karmela Padavic Callaghan
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Media/Diet (December '24)
Young-Girl Forever by Sofie Royer + my year in baking
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Karmela Padavic Callaghan
Media/Diet (November '24)
The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer + impromptu cake to use up applesauce
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Extra: Centigrade Scale IV
An anniversary, a birthday, and running towards memories
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Karmela Padavic Callaghan
Closed Timelike Curve
On food and time travel
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Notes on being a queer, immigrant, nobinary physicist-turned-writer, vegan baker living and working in New York.
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