Regression to the Mean Girls

The Art of Web Scraping Art

There is an artist I follow on TikTok, Weston Lambert, and I really liked his work. He has hundreds of thousands of followers on TikTok and Instagram, so as soon as he drops…

The Speed of Justice, According to Law & Order

Law & Order is a TV show that has been on the air since 1990. (It originally aired from 1990 to 2010, then was revived in 2022.) Its basic formula is summarized neatly by the …

Christine Zhang

The Work Is Mysterious and Important: Severance Data

First, and most importantly, here I am hanging with Dan Erickson, creator of Severance, after Jen’s amazing one woman show. If only I had thought to ask him to take me on as…

Lucy D’Agostino McGowan

Romance by the Numbers: First Sparks Across Tropes

Romance novels (in)famously guarantee happily ever afters (HEAs) and follow one of a few pathways (tropes) to get there. (See a nice overview of common tropes from Shondaland …

Sarah Lotspeich