I need you to know this: I had my name before he was famous. And though my family moved from Detroit to Saskatoon during the Vietnam War years that made him so, I need you to understand that my father was never a draft dodger. I have no quarrel with the decisions, to flee conscription […]
Thomas Hayden
Let’s get this out of the way first: Ancient Alexandria, it’s not. Still, the library of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, at the University of California, San Diego, is the closest thing the marine sciences have to a central repository of books, periodicals and documents. And like that original Alexandria, this one is threatened by, […]
It feels right to offer a tribute to Darwin today–St. Valentine was a martyr too, after all.
The deep legacy of the golden age of rail still marks the continent in persistent, and sometimes surprising ways.
Ants’ most anthropomorphous characteristic is the facility with which they go to war with their neighbors.