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05/11/2020

To Mars and Beyond

NASA’s Cory Simon on getting to the red planet with wearable technology

by Arvind Dilawar

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09/09/2019

Detention & Despair

Harry Harlow’s experiments revisited

by MK Menon

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02/18/2019

In Vitro Impossible

Artist and researcher Oron Catts discusses the challenges of growing meat and leather in the laboratory.

by Arvind Dilawar

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01/07/2019

Hollow Words

Exploring John Cleves Symmes Jr.’s obsession with a hollow Earth

by Laura Leavitt

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12/21/2018

Out of Thin Hair

An interview with writer and historian, Robert McCracken Peck

by Melinda Lewis

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07/12/2018

Field Notes

Ice fishing on the Nottawasaga Bay

by Anne McGouran

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05/21/2018

Should We Stop Looking for Intelligent Life?

What if it’s too intelligent?

by Joelle Renstrom

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02/19/2018

The Security of Dirt

There’s no place like home.

by Paul Lindholdt

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11/12/2015

The Novelist as Anglerfish

Three cheers for predestination in Marilynne Robinson's The Givenness of Things

by John Cotter

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10/07/2015

Abolish the Walls

The modern university should be less divided, not more: Rebutting "Let's Abolish Social Science"

by Mimi Sheller and Dan Schimmel

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