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A Wilderness of Thought 26 Jun 2013 | 08:50 pm
By Richard Lewis The blur of light conquers the dark. I awake dazzled. —David, age 11 THE WIND WAS SCURRYING across the streets of New York, and the children had just arrived at school. I’d recen...
Water Works 26 Jun 2013 | 08:44 pm
By Cynthia Barnett First in a series of articles reimagining infrastructure. ON A WINTER’S DAY in Seattle, a leaden monotony hangs over the Central Business District, dispiriting to this part of dow...
On Location 26 Jun 2013 | 08:42 pm
By Bill Kauffman IN 1915, the vagabond poet Vachel Lindsay delivered a spectacularly wrong prophecy about the future of film. In his book The Art of the Moving Picture, Lindsay predicted that soon en...
United We Sweat 26 Jun 2013 | 08:38 pm
By Bill McKibben CONFESSION: summer isn’t really my season. I like soft spring afternoons, and crisp, smoky fall evenings. And I love the snows of winter. When it gets really hot, my instinct is to s...
20 Things the Dog Ate 26 Jun 2013 | 08:24 pm
By Brian Doyle 1. ANCIENT SQUASHED DRIED ROUND FLAT SHARD OF BEAVER Sweet mother of the mewling baby Jesus! You wouldn’t think a creature that likes to watch Peter O’Toole movies would be such an om...
The Aerial Abstract 26 Jun 2013 | 06:39 pm
Photographs by David Maisel The aerial photographs of David Maisel might seduce the eye with their beautiful strangeness before one realizes their darker implications: these are open-pit mines, toxic...
Dear Squash 26 Jun 2013 | 05:57 pm
By Ander Monson Squash—Advanced Cucurbita pepo Spaghetti Squash Ss: Local Pima County Public Library Seed Lending Library Info: 791-4010 3 1152 06091 7657 START THIS THOUGHT with a thing that ...
From the Editor-in-Chief 25 Jun 2013 | 07:59 pm
By H. Emerson Blake America’s infrastructure—its bridges and roads, public buildings, mass transit systems, water and waste management systems, information delivery systems, power grids, dams, and pi...
10 Skills to Hone for a Post-Oil Future 24 Apr 2013 | 09:01 pm
By Ana Maria Spagna 1. BLACKSMITHING To learn how to live in a post-petroleum world, recall the pre-petroleum world where blacksmiths made everything: tools, nails, hinges, lamps, hooks, gates, and ...
Barrio Walden 24 Apr 2013 | 08:51 pm
By Luis Alberto Urrea IMAGINE MY SHOCK. I was living in Massachusetts for the first time. Adjusting. The first time I saw snow falling past my Somerville apartment window, I told a woman on the phone...
