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Fear of Trees
A late-spooky season admission: I’ve always been a little bit afraid of trees. I blame Algernon Blackwood. I read his 1912 story, The Man Whom The Trees…
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To Boldly Go Down The Hall
On Robert Irwin, Star Trek, and the infinite hallways of the future.
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Big Duck Energy
The duck of Vaucanson was 800 articulated pieces of gilded copper that could eat, quack, and splash. During public displays, it ate from a dish of…
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All Things Great and Small
Many years ago I attended a star party at a remote observatory in the mountains of West Texas. An astronomer stationed at a telescope pointing towards a…
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There's Nothing Unnatural About A Computer
A conversation with James Bridle for Grow.
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Towards Growing Peaches Online
This essay about the late architect Christopher Alexander, software patterns, and Parisian peach orchards was published late last year on an online…
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Intimate Geographies
On attending to the big and small at once—seeing both the vastness of the Redwoods and the microscopic universe within a pot of miso.
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Out-of-body, out-of-office
I’ve only lost my body once. I was thirteen, four days into a weeklong trip to the East Coast with my eighth-grade class. We’d just visited the Liberty…
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Getting a feeling for the organism
An interview with Deboleena Roy, author of Molecular Feminisms: Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab.
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We all have forests in our minds
Not long ago, I had the opportunity to look at my home compost under a microscope. A soil scientist named Lynn pinched a fingerful of the fluffy, dark…
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“But then people argue, what's life?” 
A new paper from the team behind the world's first living robots gets into the big questions.
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Old Technology and New Biology
Are they really so different?
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