With modern robots, amputees, and dangerous chimps, Jordan Barber channels Asimov and challenges our traditional notions of human identity.
Though President George W. Bush may leave office with historically low approval ratings, Jordan Barber recognizes the commander in chief’s confidence and self-sacrifice when it came to decision making.
Jordan Barber takes a stand against the Republican Party’s smokescreen and scare tactics to reveal a selfish, reactionist agenda.
Restauranteur Jordan Barber whips up a menu of election entrées guaranteed to appease your political palate.
Bibliophile Jordan Barber analyzes the relationship between reading content online and in print.
Jordan Barber, nostalgic for a time when he wasn’t checking Facebook compulsively, surrounds himself with the great outdoors. It turns out nature isn’t half bad.
The seditious Jordan Barber questions the relevance of the revelries that surround our glorious nation’s birthday.
Jordan Barber drops by the over-the-top, weekend-long jamboree known as the 2008 Portland Pride Festival and Parade. But is it really a celebration of gay pride or gay stereotypes?
Renowned wildlife behaviorist expert Jordan Barber journeys to the heart of the world’s most barren, desolate environments: the office.
Jordan Barber chronicles the implications of starting a personal blog. Aside from the social stigma of being a “blogger,” he finds that writing to a small, public audience is oddly self-revealing.
After hearing social critic James Howard Kunstler speak in Tacoma, Jordan Barber discusses ideologies of New Urbanism, which hopes to save our country from the scourge of suburbia.
In a move that will probably upset fellow reading devotees, Jordan Barber applies the paradox of choice to books. By printing fewer titles and limiting selection, publishers can ensure a higher standard of literature.
Jordan Barber interviews his friend Jenn, who learned what a “traditional Balinese massage” really meant when she visited Jakarta.
Nick Martens looks closely at Watterson’s later Sunday Strips—the “golden age” of Calvin and Hobbes.
In a new series about modern vocabulary, Darryl Campbell confronts the expectation of success and fear of failure that’s come to characterize Millennials.
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