I knew warakabras — the trumpeter birds, large flocks of which we frequently encountered wandering over the jungle floor. But I had only vaguely heard of warakabra tigers. 'Tigers' was a term which included nearly all wild carnivores, most of ...

At the opening to On the Matrix: Cyberfeminist Simulations, Plant says that cyber-feminism—and/or the complex systems and virtual worlds upon which it is based—has the capacity to undermine the ‘world view and material reality of two thousand years of patriarchal control’.

The manumission of the slaves in New York has been gradual.

Hydromancy is the supposed art of divining by water. The Persians, according to Varro, invented it; Pythagoras and Numa Pompilius made use of it; and we still admire the like wonderful prognosticators.