Owls in Towels As I grow older, as the entropy of the universe increases, as humans make the planet harder to inhabit for animals, I find myself appreciating more and more the people who spend their time helping critters in need. Some individuals travel to great lengths to employ their expertise, attempting to coax species
Teleported Scientists in China recently announced an engineering breakthrough for quantum teleportation. The preceding sentence is not science fiction. This bizarre phenomenon relies on a couple of esoteric, tough-to-understand concepts from physics. One is the “quantum state” of a particle or system: the condition of a few key attributes of subatomic particles. Think of it
Ambience Antarctica Ice contains no future, just the past, sealed away. As if they’re alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct. Ice can preserve all kinds of things that way – cleanly, clearly. That’s the essence of ice, the role it plays. –Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman I was greeted
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Paleontologizing We’ve mused multiple times over the years about the duality of technology, in general, and the internet, in specific. The net can capture us in its doom-scrolling, trivial addiction-abyss, keeping us from touching grass for longer stretches than we’d like to admit. Millions of hours of entertainment sit behind a few keystrokes at
WildEarth As much as I enjoy exploring the world with my own eyes and ears, I also love engulfing nature media. Great photography, such as Unnatural Lighting (Issue 94), kindles similar feelings to reading poetry. The same is true with moving pictures. I can watch David Attenborough-narrated films nearly endlessly. My internal globetrotter can devour hours
Mediocre Amateur Today I was feeling the wanderlust in a large way. The last quarter-year has been difficult for many of us who love traveling and exploring the outdoors in locations that aren’t necessarily in our areas. The desire for travel, however, doesn’t simply vanish during a quarantine. One benefit of modern life is the