Category: horror
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Stick It In My Plot Hole
A criticism I often hear about movies is that they are full of plot holes. But I wonder how many of these gripes are about genuine plot holes, and how many are more about the griper’s lack of imagination. A genuine plot hole is an inconsistency that is integral to making sense of the plot,…
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Overheard
As I write this, I’m in a psychology lab running participants for an experiment in my PhD dissertation. But you know, sometimes, it’s the findings that you stumble across while doing research that are just as interesting as the results you’re actively seeking out. For example, when first setting up the study, I had to…
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The Dead Squirrel Conundrum
The following exchange has recently been unearthed from the online archives of the University of Western Ontario’s school newspaper, The Gazette. It occurred in October of 1998, when the instigator of the discussion was just a budding first-year undergraduate student. Get that dead thing outta here Re: Dead things on campus To the Editor: A…
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