# Jacob Foster

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Crown Chaos

At Ada High, the crown isn’t just a tiara and tulle—it’s bloodpact and mirror magic. When a ruthless prom queen hopeful whispers an oldchant, she invites something ancient from the “mirrorverse” into her skin.Green-veined envy spreads, a best friend vanishes, and hallways turn intohunting grounds.‮…

TFTV ft. Edwin Smith

Sam & Katie sit down with Edwin Smith – a relatively new runner who’s dived deep into the world of trail running over the past few years. Edwin recently ran Mudgee Marathon in just over 4 hours, and he’s chasing that sub-4 early next year 👀 He also completed the Pilliga Grand Slam (10k, 50k, 20k ‮…

In search of names

Alright, friends—we've come to the end of the 2025 run of Many Minds! Our final episode of the year is an audio essay by yours truly. This is a classic format for the show, one that we only do every so often. Today's essay is about names. It's about the question of whether animals have something ‮…

Weird World: Phil Ford & Jacob Foster

Not only is the nation gripped by polarization these days but so are the worlds of science and higher education. Traditional scientists tend to thumb their noses at those who call for scholarly inquiry into subjects such as astral projection, extrasensory perception, hauntings, UFOs, seances and m‮…

Origins of the kiss

Humans do some pretty weird things. Some of us will sit in searingly hot rooms or jump into icy ponds. Others risk their lives trying to climb to new heights or dive to new depths. And every once in a while, two otherwise normal-seeming humans will lean in close to each other, open mouths, lock li‮…

The inner life of the hand

Newton saw in the human hand proof of the divine; Darwin saw a key to our species' success. Many others, too, have described the hand in hyperbolic terms, as a paragon of design, a cornerstone of human uniqueness, an engine of our achievements. But what makes the human hand so powerful? Is it the ‮…

The sparkling deep

It's tempting to see bioluminescence as an oddity, one of those rare eccentricities of life on earth. And, on land, maybe that's true. But our planet is mostly water, and out in the open ocean bioluminescence is utterly commonplace. Creatures of all shapes and sorts sparkle and glow, glitter and p‮…

Coming of age in Ngogo

It's a familiar story in many ways. A child is born, and for years afterward is adored and indulged and anchored to home and family. But then the child grows up and starts crossing that long threshold into adulthood. The transition proves—to say the least—a bit turbulent. Now when I say this story‮…

Cognitive offloading and its consequences

For thousands of years—maybe for as long as we've been human—we've offloaded our thinking. We've counted on our fingers. We've carved tallies into bone. We've invented a long series of tools to help us reason, remember, and manage information—tools like abacuses, calendars, writing systems, calcul‮…

Wayne A. Elderkin Interview | Angels, Demons, Vampires, Kevin Smith & The Last Desposyni

Here is the trimmed description at ~3,300 characters (well under the 4,000-character limit), keeping every section, link, disclaimer, chapter, and hashtag intact: What do Kevin Smith, comic books, vampires, angels, demons, Monster Squad, Lord of the Rings, and dark fantasy novels have in common? I‮…