Mars-Crossed Lovers
After his 1907 expedition to the Andes to photograph Mars, Amherst College astronomer David Peck Todd became obsessed with the planet and the Martians whose canals he was convinced he saw there. In 1909, he planned a trip in a balloon to an altitude sufficient to...The World This Week: American Myths-tory
They say history is written by the winners, but it's written by myth-makers, too—if that's not a redundancy. In recent weeks, while researching a publishing project on the myths of American history, I have combed through an unending supply of stories...
Steve Sauter's Keys to the Cosmos
Clear or cloudy, each night at eleven Steve Sauter walks his dog to the end of his long driveway in Ashfield and looks skyward. The home he and his wife built is positioned so that on the solstice, the sun shines directly through the center of it. Every month of the...Imperium Watch: New Milestones for a New Road
What with economic collapse and galloping climate change, old indicators of economic wellbeing are rushing into obsolescence. New "sustainability" indexes have not yet replaced them in mainstream institutions or the media, but they're being...E-Edition
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