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

Special Experience

Kea Krause

The Turning Sky

Susan Brind Morrow

Queer Theorem

Samantha Hunt

Map

Great Migrations

Miscellany

“All this about the eggplant has been proved.”

A peacable person.

100 tampons.

Wood furniture and chocolate.

Could it be?

Engineering dead-ends.

Dragon bones.

The dangers of technology.

Utter damned rot!

A tail for Eilmer.

Journey beyond the stars.

The men of Post-its.

A science outsider.

No refuge in silence.

The youth of Tolstoy.

Tired of eating fish.

Ancient brains.

Special loaves.

A tragic invention.

Voices In Time

Pleasure Principle

1802 | Somerset

Key to the Kingdom

1911 | Yorkshire

Names in Vain

1849 | Downe

True Colors

1665 | Cambridge

Trial Balloon

1783 | London

Matters of Fact

1789 | Paris

First Principles

1971 | Chicago

Realms of Gold

1816 | London

Ends of the World

c. 20 | Rome

Tyranny of the Majority

2011 | Washington, DC

Holy Smoke

1571 | Seville

Through a Looking Glass

1665 | London

Testing Grounds

1267 | Paris

Awe Inspired

1862 | Amherst, MA

Column Opinion

c. 27 BC | Rome

Skin Game

1934 | Harlem

Happy Accidents

1891 | Berlin

Gag Rule

1791 | Birmingham

Preestablished Harmony

1918 | Berlin

Life on Mars?

1899 | Colorado Springs

Missionary Imposition

1673 | Keokuk, IA

Seeing Is Believing

1666 | Blazing World

A Whole New World

1823 | Timisoara

Trading Places

c. 335 BC | Athens

Knock First

c. 80 | Antioch

Charts and Graphs

She Said, He Said

Frankenstein’s Nightmares

Mislabeled

Professor Shakespeare

Unsolved Mysteries

No Bad Ideas

Lost and Found Cities

Fake News

When Worlds Collide

Here Be Dragons

Contributors

Conversations

Jonathan Swift & Thomas S. Kuhn

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