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Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis

Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis

A wry look at what the astonishing world of animal penises can tell us about how we use our own.

2020

Emily Willingham

Emily Willingham

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Emily Willingham

Ideologies can’t be eradicated, but people sure can be

Eradicating support for a population’s right to exist is exactly what it looks like.

6 min readMar 6, 2023

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A faint rainbow against a cloudy sky

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Sex, Gender, And What The New York Times’ Pamela Paul Gets Wrong About Both

It’s pretty much everything.

8 min readDec 5, 2022

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Image of ripples on water that is reflecting the color spectrum.

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Why I Pretended To Be Elon Musk On Twitter

My deliberate and successful play to get suspended from checkmark Twitter

6 min readNov 10, 2022

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A screenshot of a message from Twitter that reads “Your account is permanently suspended.”

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Generation Exposed

Why this century’s children are having an unprecedented adolescence

8 min readOct 19, 2022

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Three young people stand in front of a chainlink fence. Left is a young man with a beard, wearing a plaid shirt and holding a smartphone. Middle is a young woman with long brown hair, wearing a dark shirt, and right is another young woman with long dark hair, wearing glasses and a mustard yellow sweatshirt. They are all looking at the smartphone and smiling.

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Embracing Uncertainty Culture

We should be teaching our children well that discomfort isn’t always disaster

13 min readOct 14, 2022

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Image shows four brown eggs with faces drawn on them, looking (from left to right) worried, bemused, amused, and shocked.

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Arming Teachers Isn’t The Solution To Violence In Our Schools

Bragging about armed faculty in our public schools sends a lasting message that will only perpetuate harms

4 min readAug 31, 2022

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Image is a screenshot. The picture is of a red-headed white woman squatting next to a sign outside of a school. The sign reads, “ATTENTION-Please be aware that the staff at Stephenville ISD are armed, and may use whatever force is necessary to protect our students and staff. “ The text of the post is given at the end of this essay, as it won’t fit here.

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Three Stages of Aging with Pride and Prejudice

Growing old with Jane Austen means new perspectives on characters we once loved to hate

7 min readAug 26, 2022

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A book is opened to the title page, which reads “Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen.” Dried roses are scattered over the book and a teacup and saucer sitting next to it.

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Frankenstein Pigs Call Definition Of Death Into Question, Again

Piggensteins imply that mostly dead could mean slightly alive.

4 min readAug 4, 2022

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A tiny black-robed figure of Death holding a scythe stands on top of what looks like black, red, green, and blue sugarplums. A tiny figure in the foreground looks like a man in a coat, tie, and hat running from Death.

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We All Have Our Something

It took me more than 30 years to figure mine out

7 min readAug 3, 2022

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A set of colorful toys, including train cars, blocks, and hot wheels cars, is carefully arranged linearly in vertical and horizontal lines. There is also a sock monkey in a rainbow outfit.

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The Electrifying, Fraught Story Of The Neuroscientists Who Developed The EEG

With cameos by Vladimir Lenin and Sigmund Freud, and bleak endings under the dark shadow of the Nazi regime.

9 min readJul 30, 2022

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Image is an EEG tracing from a patient with epilepsy showing “spikes” (pointier) and “waves” (less pointy) of increased amplitude. There are several sets of waves in red, blue, or black.

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Emily Willingham

Emily Willingham

Book Author

Journalist, author, Texan, biologist. I write All About Us (we=us), All About Adolescence (our longest growth stage), & All About Aging (we’re all doing it).

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