is a senior editor at Pacific Standard and has written for the New York Times, Playboy, and Slate. His first book of nonfiction is forthcoming via Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2016.
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Three archaeologists walk into a recently excavated prehistoric bar in Iceland. Athwart the barstools sit various skeletons, both human and dinosaur.
The first archaeologist, a self-styled secular empiricist, is fascinated by the establishment's seating arrangements and brewing mechanisms, and begins a speculative essay on ‘the boozy habits of early man'. The dinosaur bones he dismisses with a smile as the work of a flim-flam artist. He declines to perform carbon-dating on the dinos.
The second archaeologist, a Biblical literalist, is meanwhile fascinated by the notion that man not only cohabited the Earth with dinosaurs – he drank with dinosaurs! This archaeologist promptly posts his findings to creationist Web portals. He also declines to perform carbon-dating on the dinos.
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