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A Fan's Notes | Michael Knapp
Dallas Cowboys summer practice at California Lutheran College, 1963. Image via Wikimedia Commons. Chuck Klosterman achieved cult star status in the early aughts by virtue of his pop-philosophical polemics on mainstream American culture. His subjects ranged from glam metal to John Cusack to Phil Jackson's triangle offense, and his accessible eclecticism catapulted him into "the select and successful canon of reading for people who do not read," according to Mark Greif.
Doubling Down - Dissent Magazine
Doubling Down Online sports gambling has been normalized at a breakneck pace. Is there any way to push back against a predatory culture of promo codes and prop bets? A FanDuel sportsbook ad is seen before the game between the New York Yankees and the Minnesota Twins. (Luke Hales / Getty) In November 2014, less than a year into his tenure as NBA commissioner, Adam Silver quietly staked his claim to the most consequential position in modern American sports.
Between Realities: On David Ryan’s “Alligator”
David Ryan | Alligator | Cash 4 Gold Books | November 2025 | 214 Pages Upstart indie press Cash 4 Gold Books (C4G) has had a busy, buzzy entry into American letters. Founded by alt-lit stalwarts Jon Lindsey and Harris Lahti, C4G kicked things off with meme-lord-provocateur Peter Vack’s debut novel, whose cover earned them a rare accolade: a cease-and-desist letter from Care Bears. C4G makes performance art out of ruffling the literati’s (very ruffle-able) feathers.
Rojava: Weiterhin bedroht
11. Februar 2026 |ak 723 Was das Abkommen zwischen der Demokratischen Selbstverwaltung von Nord- und Ostsyrien und der Übergangsregierung in Damaskus für die Zukunft der Region bedeutet Von Michael Knapp Panzer bei einer Patrouille von US-Militär und SDF. Foto: Lucas Kontny In den vergangenen Wochen hat sich die Lage für die selbstverwalteten Regionen Nord- und Ostsyriens dramatisch zugespitzt.
Für Rojava geht es um alles
21. Januar 2026 | International Den aktuellen Angriffen auf die Selbstverwaltung von Nord- und Ostsyrien ging eine Reihe internationaler Entwicklungen voraus – dabei geht es auch um den Zugang zu Öl Von Michael Knapp Demonstration am Frankfurter Hauptbahnhof am 20. Januar. Foto: Maximilian Schweiger Wir sind entschlossen, jedes Opfer zu bringen, um die Menschen vor dem Terror zu schützen«, erklärten Mitglieder der Demokratischen Kräfte Syriens (QSD bzw.
The Women's Basketball Boom
The Women’s Basketball Boom An influx of gifted, charismatic, politically active stars have willed the WNBA into a genuine sporting attraction. Can they leverage the sport’s growing popularity into a better deal for players? ▪ August 26, 2025 We’ve largely done away with the Great Man Theory in historiography, but I remain intrigued by the Great Player Theory of basketball history.
Harris Lahti on Ripping From the Headlines of His Life
Foreclosure Gothic, Harris Lahti’s debut novel, is a chilling, absorbing, searingly memorable work of gothic fiction. Portents loom around every corner—vultures, scythes, unattributable screams—and nature is a “witch’s brew of mistrust” where hulking garbagemen roam alongside necrophiliac raccoons.
Author Correction: Tuning Li occupancy and local structures for advanced Co-free Ni-rich positive electrodes - Nature Communications
Correction to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57063-7, published online 5 March 2025 In this article the e-mail address of the corresponding author Sylvio Indris was incorrect. The original article has been corrected.
Sillyboy - Peter Vack; The Champ is Here - Nathan Dragon
[C4G Books; 2024] In 2024, whilst the world unraveled, alt-lit darlings Jon Lindsey and Harris Lahti built an indie press. Their new venture, Cash 4 Gold Books (C4G), conjures up the famously insolvent company of the same name (minus the “Books”), which spent half-a-decade hammering airwaves and swindling customers before declaring bankruptcy.
Southern elephant seals are adaptable-but they struggle when faced with both rapid climate change and human impacts
Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) are an iconic species of the Southern Ocean. But with rapid environmental changes in their ocean home, the seals' population range has been shifting. Once spread across vast areas of the Southern Hemisphere, these apex predators are facing challenges from both climate shifts and human activities. Our new research examines ancient and modern DNA, archaeological records and ecological data.
Southern elephant seals are adaptable - but they struggle when faced with both rapid climate change and human impacts
Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) are an iconic species of the Southern Ocean. But with rapid environmental changes in their ocean home, the seals’ population range has been shifting. Once spread across vast areas of the southern hemisphere, these apex predators are facing challenges from both climate shifts and human activities. Our new research examines ancient and modern DNA, archaeological records and ecological data.
Highly efficient isolation and multistep analysis of tumor cells from whole blood
Highly efficient isolation and multistep analysis of tumor cells from whole blood We present a microfluidic solution for improved tumor cell analysis based on selection-free isolation of nucleated cells from whole blood. It consists of a high-density silicon microcavity array combined with the novel fluidic strategy of microfluidic decanting.
Tuning Li occupancy and local structures for advanced Co-free Ni-rich positive electrodes - Nature Communications
Abstract Structure evolution and surface reactivity have long been regarded as the most crucial points for studying Ni-rich positive electrodes for Li-ion batteries. Unfortunately, the influence of Li occupancy as a single factor on electro-chemomechanical stability has been overlooked and is missing, owing to the challenge of Li determination in the lattice.
Loss of forests brought new birds to NZ during the last Ice Age-we're witnessing a similar process now
When people arrived on the shores of Aotearoa New Zealand and began to turn the land to their needs, they set in motion great changes. The landscape of today bears little resemblance to that of a mere thousand years ago. More than 70% of forest cover has been lost since human arrival. Native bush has been replaced by tussocks, scrublands and, most of all, open agricultural land. These changes affected our birdlife dramatically. Some species, like the moa, were simply hunted to extinction.
Loss of forests brought new birds to NZ during last Ice Age — we’re witnessing a similar process now
As our native species decline under threats of habitat loss and predation by mammalian pests, they will be ecologically replaced by other species. When people arrived on the shores of Aotearoa New Zealand and began to turn the land to their needs, they set in motion great changes. The landscape of today bears little resemblance to that of a mere thousand years ago. More than 70% of forest cover has been lost since human arrival.
Loss of forests brought new birds to NZ during the last Ice Age - we’re witnessing a similar process now
When people arrived on the shores of Aotearoa New Zealand and began to turn the land to their needs, they set in motion great changes. The landscape of today bears little resemblance to that of a mere thousand years ago. More than 70% of forest cover has been lost since human arrival. Native bush has been replaced by tussocks, scrublands and, most of all, open agricultural land. These changes affected our birdlife dramatically. Some species, like the moa, were simply hunted to extinction.
The World Has Other Plans: On Eli Zuzovsky’s debut novel, "Mazeltov"
In Eli Zuzovsky’s debut novel, Mazeltov, the morning news is forecasting “both a rainstorm and a war,” and the bathroom mirror is proclaiming that “ADAM WEIZMANN IS AFRAID OF TITSSSSS.” It’s Tel Aviv, circa 2009, and Adam—an isolated, precocious, aspirant thespian who’s also, yes, closeted—is traipsing towards his temple-ordained manhood, visible on the horizon thanks to a bar mitzvah looming in the near future.
Tailoring superstructure units for improved oxygen redox activity in Li-rich layered oxide battery’s positive electrodes - Nature Communications
Abstract The high-voltage oxygen redox activity of Li-rich layered oxides enables additional capacity beyond conventional transition metal (TM) redox contributions and drives the development of positive electrode active materials in secondary Li-based batteries. However, Li-rich layered oxides often face voltage decay during battery operation.
Masquerade - Mike Fu
[Tin House; 2024] Meadow—the charming, frustrating, chronically hungover protagonist at the center of Mike Fu’s debut novel, Masquerade—is floundering through the dog days of his protracted youth. Wallowing “in the inertia of his early thirties,” Meadow has been ghosted by the ever-elusive Diego following an amorous month-long entanglement, and he’s been ousted from his Bed-Stuy sublet by his kombucha-guzzling landlords, who need to make room in their brownstone for a nursery.
Commentary | Michael Knapp: Facing the realities of antisemitism: A call for awareness and unity in Brattleboro
As a Jewish Vermonter who has spent the past three decades working to improve our synagogue’s safety and counter local antisemitism, I feel compelled to clarify that concerns about local antisemitism are neither unfounded nor a mere reflex. They are deeply anchored in the stark realities of our history and the present-day situation. Recent letters to the editor, including those by Jewish authors, deny the reality and danger of local antisemitism.
In situ investigation of the stability field and relaxation behavior of nanodomain structures in morphotropic Pb [Zr1-xTix] O3 under variations in electric field and temperature
In situ investigation of the stability field and relaxation behavior of nanodomain structures in morphotropic Pb [Zr1-xTix] O3 under variations in electric field and temperature Mots clés Dielectric relaxation Electric domain walls Lead compounds Nanostructured materials Relaxor ferroelectrics Origine : Fichiers éditeurs autorisés sur une archive ouverte
Publish or Perish: On Andrew Ewell’s “Set for Life”
In Andrew Ewell’s debut novel, Set for Life, our unnamed narrator is a tenure-less creative writing professor at a middling college in upstate New York. He’s been riding the coattails of his wife/colleague/benefactor’s literary success for years and, as he approaches 40, he has yet to make good on his own writerly promise in the form of an actual book.
Soziale Netzwerkbeziehungen in Coworking Spaces
2024 | Buch Die Studie von Michael Knapp befasst sich mit den sozialen Netzwerkbeziehungen von Freelancer*innen im Kontext von Coworking Spaces als flexibel nutzbare Büro- und Arbeitsräumlichkeiten. Dabei wird insbesondere auf die Bedeutung dieses Kontexts in Bezug auf die Beziehungs- und Netzwerkbildung eingegangen und gezeigt, wie die Nutzung eines Arbeitsplatzes in diesem zur organisationalen Einbettung im Freelancing beitragen kann.
A Monopoly on Violence: On “Quiet Street”
There’s a certain serenity implicit on a “quiet street.” A quiet street is calm, peaceful; perhaps even a bit dull in its lack of activity. Such an atmosphere seems an appropriate place from which to reflect on past experience, as Nick McDonell does in his memoiristic exploration of the one percent, Quiet Street: On American Privilege.
Transgenerational Trauma in “Close to Home”
Sean Maguire was supposed to be the exception. After making it out of a West Belfast community haunted by economic precarity and the ever-present ghost of the Troubles, Sean was destined to get his college degree in Liverpool and never return. But outpacing your past, and leaving behind the city that molded you, is easier said than done.
A Review of Max Porter’s Shy
In Max Porter’s Shy, the titular teenage protagonist has escaped from Last Chance, a “shite old mansion” converted into a school for “very disturbed young men.” A chorus of voices from Shy’s past follow him into the night in this polyphonic novel that gives us stunning, lyrical insights into the psyche of one particularly angry and self-destructive adolescent.
Universal and efficient extraction of lithium for lithium-ion battery recycling using mechanochemistry - Communications Chemistry
Abstract The increasing lithium-ion battery production calls for profitable and ecologically benign technologies for their recycling. Unfortunately, all used recycling technologies are always associated with large energy consumption and utilization of corrosive reagents, which creates a risk to the environment.
Blurring Relationship Boundaries in “Thirst for Salt”
Our unnamed narrator meets Jude, a local antique dealer and washed-up actor, while on vacation with her mother in an isolated Australian coastal town. Jude is forty-two. Our narrator is twenty-four. Jude recognizes her copy of Marguerite Duras’s The Lover. Our narrator is smitten. And so we embark on a doomed romance serving as the centerpiece of Madelaine Lucas’s debut novel, Thirst for Salt.
Finding Freedom In The Absurd: Jesse Ball’s Autoportrait
Finding Freedom in the Absurd: Jesse Ball’s Autoportrait Jesse Ball’s Autoportrait is 140 brisk pages of loosely connected musings and vignettes.
Back from the brink: how genome research is helping the recovery of the Chatham Island black robin
The story of Old Blue and Old Yellow, two Chatham Island black robins that went on to save their species, is one of New Zealand’s best known conservation stories. Once abundant on Rēkohu/Chatham Islands before European arrival, the black robin population crashed when rats invaded the archipelago. In the early 1900s, 35 black robins remained on a small island (Tapuaenuku/Little Mangere), but by 1976, only seven birds had survived.
To Articulate that Confusion: On Brad Listi's "Be Brief and Tell Them Everything" — Cleveland Review of Books
To Articulate that Confusion: On Brad Listi's "Be Brief and Tell Them Everything" Brad Listi | Be Brief and Tell Them Everything | Ig Publishing | 2022 | 216 Pages Brad Listi’s novel about a guy named Brad Listi writing a novel opens with a confession: “This book took twelve years to write.” Listi recounts the many forms his book has taken—novel, “another, different novel,” memoir, essay collection—before closing its initial paragraph in surrender: “now it’s whatever this is.” What exactly...
Waiting for the Bus
The bus stop was barren minus this old white guy with a patchy beard and an orange beanie. He had a big bag of pretzels between his feet, and a jar of peanut butter nestled into the crook of his elbow. He was scooping hulking chunks of peanut butter onto the pretzels and inhaling them in one bite. They weren’t small pretzels. Which is to say he was taking some big bites. “Mind if I sit?” I gestured to the opposite end of the bench. He nodded. I left enough room for a moderately obese man-spreader.
Want to File a Mechanics’ Lien in California? Here’s What You Can (and Can’t) Include
How can a contractor, subcontractor, or supplier secure payment for its work? One solution is to file a mechanics’ lien against a project’s property. Lien laws vary widely from state to state and time to time because contractors and subcontractors frequently seek to change them – California is no exception.
Giving back to your community
When I was growing up, my parents instilled in me the importance of giving back to your family, your community and your country. I am sure that many of you were also raised with similar values. The past two and a half years of isolation and restrictions imposed by the pandemic has brought home to us both the importance of our social relationships and how fragile our connections with the community around us can be.
Dielectric Relaxation and Magnetic Structure of A-Site-Ordered Perovskite Oxide Semiconductor CaCu3Fe2Ta2O12
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Mechanochemical Synthesis of amorphous and crystalline Na2P2S6 - Elucidation of local structural changes by X-Ray Total Scattering and NMR
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Demographic reconstruction from ancient DNA supports rapid extinction of the great auk
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Abstract The great auk was once abundant and distributed across the North Atlantic. It is now extinct, having been heavily exploited for its eggs, meat, and feathers. We investigated the impact of human hunting on its demise by integrating genetic data, GPS-based ocean current data, and analyses of population viability.
By Jessica Thomas, Gary Carvalho, James Haile, Nicolas J. Rawlence, Michael Martin, Morten Frederiksen, Jannie F. Linnebjerg, Jonas Niemann, Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding, Marcela Sandoval-Velasco, Robert C. Lacy, Jan T. Lifjeld, Paul Sweet, Errol Fuller, Jon Fjeldså, Beth Shapiro, Michael Hofreiter, John Stewart, Michael Knapp, Simon YW Ho, Arnór Þ Sigfússon, Vigfús A Jósefsson, Christina Barilaro, Juila Best, Dirk Brandis, Chiara Cavallo, Mikelo Elorza, Kimball L Garrett, Maaike Groot, Friederike Johansson, Göran Nilson, Dale Serjeanston, Anne Karin Hufthammer, Morten Meldgaard
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Complete genomes of two extinct New Zealand passerines show responses to climate fluctuations but no evidence for genomic erosion prior to extinction
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As DOs move into the future, we must remember where we came from
The founder of osteopathic medicine, A.T. Still, MD, DO, is pictured on the lower left in this photo. Editor’s note: This is an opinion piece; the views expressed are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent the views of The DO or the AOA. As a second-generation DO, and an osteopathic family physician who has been practicing for almost 40 years, I can tell you that we do not need to rethink our position in medicine as others have recently suggested.
Why Not Tax Beer Instead?
Opinion | Letter Why Not Tax Beer Instead? Far more people drink far more beer than smokers smoke cigarettes in Montana By Michael Knapp // Sep 24, 2018 Considering the huge tobacco tax increase contained in I-185 got me to thinking that if the legislature truly wanted to raise funds, it would levy an additional tax on beer, not cigarettes. Far more people drink far more beer than smokers smoke cigarettes in Montana.
Radical Democracy in Practice
Democratic Confederalism as Model of Radical Democracy in Practice Michael Knapp Abstract The article “Democratic Confederalism and its practice” by Michael Knapp aims at presenting the concept of Democratic Confederalism applied in the Kurdish areas of Turkey and Syria as a concept of cohabitation and grassroots democracy. Starting with a discussion on the impact of national state in the Middle East a background for the theoretical development of Democratic Confederalism shall be prepared.
A century apart, two Harvard alumni find each other in the American South.
APPROACHING HIS FIFTIETH REUNION, the author, class of ’68, engages the ghost of his great-grandfather, Edward (Ned) Hooper, A.B. 1859, LL.B. ’61 (and subsequently Treasurer of Harvard College from 1876 to 1898 and LL.D. ’99), about the surprising similarities in their respective experiences in the Peace Corps and the Civil War, many of which occurred in the very same spot in the South Carolina Sea Islands.
A century apart, two Harvard alumni find each other in the American South.
APPROACHING HIS FIFTIETH REUNION, the author, class of ’68, engages the ghost of his great-grandfather, Edward (Ned) Hooper, A.B. 1859, LL.B. ’61 (and subsequently Treasurer of Harvard College from 1876 to 1898 and LL.D. ’99), about the surprising similarities in their respective experiences in the Peace Corps and the Civil War, many of which occurred in the very same spot in the South Carolina Sea Islands.
Building bridges between ideas, people, and possibilities: An education professor looks back
Retirement often leads the newly retired on strange and interesting pathways. In my case, this life transition two years ago brought an urge to reflect on what I had been doing for the decades of my career as an education professor, education policy researcher, and school teacher. As I did so, a metaphor (bridge building) repeatedly surfaced as a way to capture many aspects of what I did, and what many of us do, in academic practice.
Charles T. Knapp, 92
FULTON, NY – Charles T. Knapp, 92, of Fulton, passed away on Saturday September 30, 2017, at Oswego Hospital. Born in Fulton, he was the son of the late Ralph and Lula Corpron Knapp. Chuck served in the U. S. Navy during World War II from 1943 until 1946. Following the service, he worked in construction as an electrical contractor and in 1959 founded Knapp Electric, Inc. in Fulton.
Shape-controlled synthesis of hierarchically layered lithium transition-metal oxide cathode materials by shear exfoliation in continuous stirred-tank reactors - Journal of Materials Chemistry A (RSC Publishing)
To develop hierarchical layered cathode materials with high performance is key to further improve advanced lithium-ion batteries, but these systems are challenging to synthesize with controllable shape in large scale. We used a high-shear mixer to continuously prepare flower-like hydroxide precursors via a co-precipitation method in a continuous stirred-tank reactor (CSTR).
Russia's Lawful Land Grab
While substantial ink has been spilled (and continues to be spilled) over Russia’s de facto annexation of Crimea and South Ossetia, comparatively little attention has been paid to the Russia’s attempted expansion in the Arctic Ocean. In 2007, Russian scientists stirred controversy when they planted a Russian flag on the seabed at the North Pole, and in February 2016, Russia made a claim to an additional 1.2 million square kilometers of continental shelf.
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