In which I tell you a bit about my new short story collection, Protons and Fleurons: Twenty-Two Elements of Fiction, and then read you one of them, "Cobalt: A Mystery," which features among other delights Henry Melchior Muhlenberg as the detective, and me doing a German accent.

Read more about mystagogical realism here.

Season 4 of Queen of the Sciences starts next week with an episode on The Eighth Commandment in Cancel Culture!