Lake of the Long Tail
Lake of the Long Tail Ohio is one of just five states that intersect with one of North America’s major rivers and a Great Lake (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana are the others). Its eponymous river forms the southern border, while a large part of its northern edge abuts Lake Erie. The lake is named for the Erie people,
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The Great River
The Great River “The Ohio is the most beautiful river on earth. Its current gentle, waters clear, and bosom smooth and unbroken by rocks and rapids, a single instance only excepted.” –Thomas Jefferson We learned the Buckeye State‘s official name came from the gargantuan waterway that forms its southern border: the Ohio River. Ohi:yo’ is a Seneca word that means
The Good River
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
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 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
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
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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