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Is the Academy’s Egg Room for real? Inspiration What kind of realities inspired the idea of calling a space at the Academy of Reality the

  Attention Deficit Or Surplus A routine maintenance ritual, copier techs would spread a couple of sheets of newspaper on a copier glass to collect

Spirtual TV Shows In my first couple of years as a tech, I worked in a place where in-house technicians had staggered lunches. We usually

Why Pigeons? While searching online for B.F. Skinner’s 1950 video of two lab pigeons playing ping pong, I ran into a psychedelic funk rock band.

World War II Penguin Four, the ping-pong-playing, rope-jumping pigeon at the Academy of Reality, has a long-forgotten legacy in scientific circles. According to the Academy’s

Fully Clothed and Wearing Shoes Searching for a picnic spot to include in the Academy of Reality’s pamphlet, Fifty Places to Picnic, Sid and Mia

      A Boost for Poverty Porn? Brief glimpses of a homeless girl appear in The Academy of Reality, roughly a dozen times over

 Absurdist Games Inspiring salespeople might sound easy. Sales managers launch new programs by offering new incentives to recognize achievement. Celebrating wins, no matter how small,

Thinking In and Out of Boxes Kim Davis, the publisher of my off-the-wall account of Academy of Reality wondered if the manuscript lacked a sense

        Mathematics At the Academy of Reality, Sid Sidney wonders what kind of financial asylum the founders think they were founding. Casino

Proletarian Novel? A friend of mine claimed that you could call The Academy of Reality proletarian lit. I had never thought beyond the idea that