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“Brah, Dude, Man, Trust Fund Baby.” Call them what you will. During the past decade, the bro has become an increasingly visible addition to the U of M campus. Leaving in their Wake a trail of empty Natty Ice cans, hair product slime, and Five Hour Energy bottles, the bro has begun to branch into different species and genres, appropriating other pop culture and local phenomena into their rituals and behavior. In The Wake of …
whenever he drove cross-country
he bought a scratch-off
from each gas station
he filled up at.
he never scratched them,
just crammed them in his glove-box
that no longer shut
(it was so full)
and drove to the next state.
he drove through cornfields and small towns
and lava fields: landscapes washing by without ever solidifying.
he flipped to the next page in his worn-out atlas
pretended he had a dog named charlie in the passenger seat
to talk to.
he didn’t have much.
just his beater car
and three years …
Cloning has been one of those “hot topics” for years. One of the things you find round-table discussions about late at night when flipping between PBS and the science channel or on the slate for high school debate class. Should we clone sheep? People? Babies? Well here’s a new one: soon we may be able to clone our ancient rival/ancestor, the Neanderthal.
Scientists in Germany have been working for the past five years on accurately sequencing …