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January/February 2010

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read article Spectral Light

When the boundaries between predator and prey, wild and tame, black and white, become blurred.  

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Digging In

Places to go after you die and various ways of getting there.  

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The Trail

A very short story, written to underscore the moral obligation of practicing restraint.  

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Touched by Fire

Conflagration strikes a citadel of natural history, but a sense of wonder prevails. 

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Bernardo's Corrido

In this story, Bernardo was just a dog in a town that was just a town -- until he became something more.  

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A Conjoined Fate

A painter of insects discovers gruesome truths about hte effects of low-level radiation emissions from nuclear power plants.  

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read article iDubai

Street scenes from the ephemeral empire captured in phone.  

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Tending the Garden of Technology

In which the founder of Wired magazine suggests that technology is a product of evolution, and human culture is a product of technology.
Will be published on this website on January 5, 2010.  

Sacred & Mundane

Sacred & Mundane

In this regular department, some short takes:
"The Pent-Up Pup," by Lou Bendrick
"Geese Police," by Rachel Graves (will be published online February 4)
"Let's Go Outside, Sort Of," by David Lukas
"The Pestival," by Pete May 

Coda

The Grain of the Universe

"A sailboat is the rules of physics made tangible." 

Outside In

The Tips of Your Fingers

State-sponsored surveillance is a crime against individualism, creativity, and beauty.
Will be published on the website on January 21. 

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Upping the Stakes

read article 50 Simple Ways to Get Off

A kind of love affair that won't break hearts, but might save species. With AUDIO.  

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Media & The Arts

read article Zeitgeist of Doom

What the movie adaptation of The Road says about a culture that craves such cinematic experiences. 

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Reviews

Eating Animals
Tears of Mermaids
Black Nature
The Year of the Flood
Down to the Wire
Effigies
A Sea Change


Poetry

All Wet and Shine by Cynthia Huntington
Correcting the Landscape by Elizabeth Bradfield
After Reading Juarroz by Andrea Cohen
Days in Paradise by Michael Collier


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