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

Special Experience

Kea Krause

How to Cross a Field of Snow

Robert Moor

Queer Theorem

Samantha Hunt

Map

Great Migrations

Miscellany

Engineering dead-ends.

Journey beyond the stars.

Ancient brains.

The youth of Tolstoy.

A peacable person.

No refuge in silence.

100 tampons.

Utter damned rot!

The men of Post-its.

Dragon bones.

Could it be?

“All this about the eggplant has been proved.”

A science outsider.

The dangers of technology.

Wood furniture and chocolate.

Tired of eating fish.

Special loaves.

A tail for Eilmer.

A tragic invention.

Voices In Time

Holy Smoke

1571 | Seville

Missionary Imposition

1673 | Keokuk, IA

A Whole New World

1823 | Timisoara

Knock First

c. 80 | Antioch

Trial Balloon

1783 | London

Column Opinion

c. 27 BC | Rome

Awe Inspired

1862 | Amherst, MA

Seeing Is Believing

1666 | Blazing World

Preestablished Harmony

1918 | Berlin

Gag Rule

1791 | Birmingham

Tyranny of the Majority

2011 | Washington, DC

Pleasure Principle

1802 | Somerset

Life on Mars?

1899 | Colorado Springs

First Principles

1971 | Chicago

Ends of the World

c. 20 | Rome

Happy Accidents

1891 | Berlin

Matters of Fact

1789 | Paris

Key to the Kingdom

1911 | Yorkshire

Through a Looking Glass

1665 | London

Trading Places

c. 335 BC | Athens

Realms of Gold

1816 | London

Testing Grounds

1267 | Paris

Skin Game

1934 | Harlem

True Colors

1665 | Cambridge

Names in Vain

1849 | Downe

Charts and Graphs

Fake News

No Bad Ideas

When Worlds Collide

She Said, He Said

Lost and Found Cities

Professor Shakespeare

Frankenstein’s Nightmares

Unsolved Mysteries

Mislabeled

Here Be Dragons

Contributors

Conversations

Jonathan Swift & Thomas S. Kuhn

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