Trying to find your way around this place? Like most expositions, we offer a map: 
New volume, number 13, of Annals of Science is now up over at McSweeney's. Care to gander? It's here.
Teaser? Okay. Here's the opening:
I don't know if the image of thousands and thousands of crushed mice on a city street--mice crushed so thoroughly and efficiently that their guts and gore are thick over the road, carpeting it in a semiliquid paste-like sheet, a slick sluice, making said road too slippery to drive on, totally impassable without maybe those winter tire chains I'm not even sure people have anymore except maybe in Alaska, I'll have to ask someone in Alaska--I don't know if that gets you, but it bothers me.Gooey crushed rodents. Top of the list of things I don't want to see. Or have described to me. Disrespectful even bringing it up. It's Hitchcockian, or biblical, whichever came first....
These volumes are rarer and rarer over the past couple of years, but maybe I can get in three this year. Any topic suggestions?
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I enjoyed your article. We Pacific Northwesterners own chains to traverse the Cascades. That is not to say that Seattlites actually know how to use them.
As far as a third installment, what about an underwater annals? Diving chambers, submersibles and those amazing pressure suits coupled with pirate treasure, alien fish and risk of life come together in my mind for a fantastic collage of images and emotions.
Posted by: Thomas Robey | August 1, 2007 2:10 PM
With this news story in NYTimes, there is even more potential here...
Posted by: Thomas Robey | August 3, 2007 10:25 PM
Must've put a typo in the link above:
Wooden sub 'attacks' QM2.
Posted by: Thomas Robey | August 3, 2007 10:28 PM