The Good River In 1803, the United States added a 17th member to its fledgling union. This region has many nicknames, including the Buckeye State and the Mother of Presidents, but its official name – Ohio – comes from the mighty river that forms much of its eastern and all of its southern borders. Erie, one of […]
First Flight of Domestic Science As the child of a Home Economics educator, I grew up keenly aware of the gulf between its popular reputation and its rigorous underpinnings. By the time I hit high school in the 1990s, Home Ec was often viewed as “cooking and sewing class,” though I’m sure this viewpoint had solidified
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Psithurism psithurism/psithurisma noun [sith-yuh-riz-uhm]/[sith-yuh-riz-muh] 1. The sound of rustling leaves or wind in the trees. From the Ancient Greek ψιθυρίζω (psithurízō), meaning “to whisper,” or ψίθυρος (psíthyros), “whisper.” “Look from your window some March morning of east wind — Eurus, ab urendo — and you may tell the quarter whence it blows by the tortured movement of the trees. They struggle
Artificial Intelligence – Part IV [Editor’s Note: This article is the fourth in a series chronicling the potential for artificial intelligence to craft this project. Each year, we ask ChatGPT to write an issue on mountains and provide the imagery with Midjourney. Everything that follows is unedited and not crafted by humans (other than
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Watermelon Mosaic Virus Art is a quirky concept. Most of us have a decent idea about things we consider artistic, perhaps even a list of works we consider to be high art. But the limits of art are far more nebulous than the boundaries of individual taste. Do art and non-art exist on a spectrum? How
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Uranus Is Highbrow Over the years, we’ve learned a lot of interesting and off-color things about Uranus. Uranus is tilted. Uranus stinks. Uranus is cold. Uranus even rains diamonds. We’ve only visited Uranus once, when Voyager 2 whooshed by on its way out of the solar system. Because of all these bizarre attributes of Uranus, we decided we’re going to
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Penny In late spring 2008, my sister and I visited a pet shelter. When we came home, we’d been adopted by Amalfi. She wore a grey and white tuxedo, had radiant yellow eyes, and doled out enough love to touch the most hidden human souls. She joined Seymour, and they became the royals of the
Falling Iguana Alert “I’m going to take care of someone who just got an iguana dropped on his face.” –Anamargaret Sanchez, yoga instructor America is so large that its extremities feature exceptionally different wildlife. From Alaska’s frigid climes and polar bears to the hellscape of Florida and its crocodiles, the nation contains nearly
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