Photochrome of a glacier, Grindelwald, Switzerland, c. 1890. © Rijksmuseum. 

Discovery

Volume X, Number 2 | spring 2017

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Homo Faber

Lewis H. Lapham

The Turning Sky

Susan Brind Morrow

Queer Theorem

Samantha Hunt

How to Cross a Field of Snow

Robert Moor

Special Experience

Kea Krause

Map

Great Migrations

Miscellany

Engineering dead-ends.

A tragic invention.

Wood furniture and chocolate.

No refuge in silence.

Special loaves.

A science outsider.

The men of Post-its.

Tired of eating fish.

100 tampons.

“All this about the eggplant has been proved.”

Dragon bones.

A tail for Eilmer.

Utter damned rot!

Ancient brains.

Journey beyond the stars.

Could it be?

The youth of Tolstoy.

The dangers of technology.

A peacable person.

Voices In Time

Tyranny of the Majority

2011 | Washington, DC

Holy Smoke

1571 | Seville

Ends of the World

c. 20 | Rome

Preestablished Harmony

1918 | Berlin

A Whole New World

1823 | Timisoara

Gag Rule

1791 | Birmingham

Pleasure Principle

1802 | Somerset

Key to the Kingdom

1911 | Yorkshire

Names in Vain

1849 | Downe

Skin Game

1934 | Harlem

Life on Mars?

1899 | Colorado Springs

Trading Places

c. 335 BC | Athens

Missionary Imposition

1673 | Keokuk, IA

Seeing Is Believing

1666 | Blazing World

First Principles

1971 | Chicago

Through a Looking Glass

1665 | London

Trial Balloon

1783 | London

Testing Grounds

1267 | Paris

True Colors

1665 | Cambridge

Knock First

c. 80 | Antioch

Column Opinion

c. 27 BC | Rome

Matters of Fact

1789 | Paris

Awe Inspired

1862 | Amherst, MA

Happy Accidents

1891 | Berlin

Realms of Gold

1816 | London

Charts and Graphs

Lost and Found Cities

Frankenstein’s Nightmares

Mislabeled

Unsolved Mysteries

She Said, He Said

Professor Shakespeare

Fake News

No Bad Ideas

When Worlds Collide

Here Be Dragons

Contributors

Conversations

Jonathan Swift & Thomas S. Kuhn

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