Photochrome of a glacier, Grindelwald, Switzerland, c. 1890. © Rijksmuseum. 

Discovery

Volume X, Number 2 | spring 2017

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Homo Faber

Lewis H. Lapham

How to Cross a Field of Snow

Robert Moor

The Turning Sky

Susan Brind Morrow

Queer Theorem

Samantha Hunt

Special Experience

Kea Krause

Map

Great Migrations

Miscellany

“All this about the eggplant has been proved.”

Engineering dead-ends.

A peacable person.

The youth of Tolstoy.

100 tampons.

Journey beyond the stars.

No refuge in silence.

Special loaves.

Dragon bones.

Ancient brains.

A tragic invention.

A tail for Eilmer.

Tired of eating fish.

The dangers of technology.

Could it be?

Wood furniture and chocolate.

A science outsider.

Utter damned rot!

The men of Post-its.

Voices In Time

Preestablished Harmony

1918 | Berlin

Tyranny of the Majority

2011 | Washington, DC

Knock First

c. 80 | Antioch

Through a Looking Glass

1665 | London

Pleasure Principle

1802 | Somerset

Gag Rule

1791 | Birmingham

Ends of the World

c. 20 | Rome

Realms of Gold

1816 | London

Seeing Is Believing

1666 | Blazing World

Life on Mars?

1899 | Colorado Springs

Trading Places

c. 335 BC | Athens

Trial Balloon

1783 | London

Skin Game

1934 | Harlem

Holy Smoke

1571 | Seville

Awe Inspired

1862 | Amherst, MA

Column Opinion

c. 27 BC | Rome

First Principles

1971 | Chicago

Testing Grounds

1267 | Paris

A Whole New World

1823 | Timisoara

Matters of Fact

1789 | Paris

Names in Vain

1849 | Downe

True Colors

1665 | Cambridge

Missionary Imposition

1673 | Keokuk, IA

Happy Accidents

1891 | Berlin

Key to the Kingdom

1911 | Yorkshire

Charts and Graphs

When Worlds Collide

No Bad Ideas

Mislabeled

Frankenstein’s Nightmares

She Said, He Said

Here Be Dragons

Unsolved Mysteries

Fake News

Professor Shakespeare

Lost and Found Cities

Contributors

Conversations

Jonathan Swift & Thomas S. Kuhn

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