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A Life of Science:
Revealing the River
by Alex Turner

January 27, 2020

A Series by New Scientists A richer, more comprehensive story is revealed only when you dig below the surface; when your ability to see place... Read More...

Haunted by the Future
Prose by Barbara Hurd
Photos by Michael O. Snyder

January 16, 2020

Nonfiction, To Know a Place

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When time seems to rush erratically or plod in slow motion, it’s hard to tell how gone a gone thing is, if remnants of life remain, whether ti... Read More...

Return to Scale
by Barbara Haas

January 10, 2020

Nonfiction, To Know a Place

Москва-Сити could out-sky the sky. Its prominent silhouette looks like Oz as glimpsed from the Yellow Brick Road. As if magicked ex... Read More...

The Mermaids of Austin
by Melissa Wiley

December 30, 2019

Nonfiction

I touched my fingers to his arm shaped like a fin, and sparks flew between us, a mermaid and merman, the last of their species until life unde... Read More...

The Twentieth Bear
by Yelizaveta P. Renfro

December 19, 2019

Nonfiction, To Know a Place

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In the long, distorting hindsight with which we hold onto and apprehend most of the events of our lives, the bear will become story. ... Read More...

Into Los Angeles
by Nick Neely

December 6, 2019

Nonfiction

In 2016, Nick Neely walked for 12 weeks from San Diego to San Francisco to retrace the first overland Spanish expedition into what’s now the s... Read More...

A Life of Science:
Science, Snakes, and Duct Tape
by Brian Blais

November 22, 2019

A Life of Science, Nonfiction

A Series by New Scientists We met at eight in the morning at a dirt parking lot just inside the national forest entrance. It was ear... Read More...

Finding Atlantis
by Beth Peterson

November 12, 2019

Nonfiction

39.7024° N, 44.2991° E Mount Ararat, Turkey When I was still a child, the first story I heard about a flood was the tale of Noah’s ark. Th... Read More...

The Influence of Art at Yosemite
by James McGrew

November 10, 2019

Image in Place, Nonfiction

Works of art have played an integral role in the history of Yosemite as a national park, delighting the visitors who encounter them and inspir... Read More...