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

How to Cross a Field of Snow

Robert Moor

Special Experience

Kea Krause

The Turning Sky

Susan Brind Morrow

Queer Theorem

Samantha Hunt

Map

Great Migrations

Miscellany

Journey beyond the stars.

A tail for Eilmer.

Dragon bones.

Ancient brains.

Engineering dead-ends.

Could it be?

The youth of Tolstoy.

Utter damned rot!

Tired of eating fish.

A science outsider.

Wood furniture and chocolate.

The dangers of technology.

Special loaves.

“All this about the eggplant has been proved.”

The men of Post-its.

No refuge in silence.

100 tampons.

A peacable person.

A tragic invention.

Voices In Time

Gag Rule

1791 | Birmingham

Pleasure Principle

1802 | Somerset

Missionary Imposition

1673 | Keokuk, IA

Trial Balloon

1783 | London

Seeing Is Believing

1666 | Blazing World

Holy Smoke

1571 | Seville

Column Opinion

c. 27 BC | Rome

Key to the Kingdom

1911 | Yorkshire

Knock First

c. 80 | Antioch

Life on Mars?

1899 | Colorado Springs

Happy Accidents

1891 | Berlin

Skin Game

1934 | Harlem

Ends of the World

c. 20 | Rome

Matters of Fact

1789 | Paris

A Whole New World

1823 | Timisoara

Names in Vain

1849 | Downe

Through a Looking Glass

1665 | London

Trading Places

c. 335 BC | Athens

Realms of Gold

1816 | London

Awe Inspired

1862 | Amherst, MA

Preestablished Harmony

1918 | Berlin

Tyranny of the Majority

2011 | Washington, DC

Testing Grounds

1267 | Paris

True Colors

1665 | Cambridge

First Principles

1971 | Chicago

Charts and Graphs

Frankenstein’s Nightmares

She Said, He Said

When Worlds Collide

Unsolved Mysteries

Mislabeled

Fake News

No Bad Ideas

Here Be Dragons

Lost and Found Cities

Professor Shakespeare

Contributors

Conversations

Jonathan Swift & Thomas S. Kuhn

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