Making Bourdélots and Tasting Terroir
by Rory Hill
27 minutes
There is a line in the Iliad where Nestor, breaker of horses, laments Diomedes as: Lost to the hearth, lost to the clan, lost to the old ways. It has ...
Ecocomics: Vivid Worlds in Images and Text
24 minutes
I grew up on Disney’s Duck Tales (1988–) comics, casually enraptured by the adventures of ducks, mice, and dogs. Later, I encountered the chilling kin...Portrait of an Arctic Research Station
11 minutes
Tarfala Research Station is nestled in the Tarfala Valley in the Arctic north of Sweden. It is accessed by helicopter or on foot. The hike is challeng...Puppets at the Hands of Water: Sex Workers in Mongla, Bangladesh
17 minutes
On a summer afternoon in 2022, I made the long drive from Jessore to Mongla, a port city in southern Bangladesh. My route took me through Bangladesh’s...Science in Fiction: A Brief Look at Communicating Climate Change Through the Novel
19 minutes
Responding to Lynda Walsh’s argument for looking at alternative models of knowledge production—and taking into account Jeroen Oomen’s argument in favo...Rain, Carson, Art, Salt: A Venetian Matrix
22 minutes
Early September 2024: When, on the morning of my third day in Venice, I wake and grab my phone to check the weather app, I am met by the same orange b...Killing a Baboon: Applied History and the Anthropocene Ape
by Sandra Swart
36 minutes
#JusticeForRaygun is trending in South Africa. He was a young male baboon who had left his mother’s troop and set off, on a journey to adulthood. This...Cultures of Tarhana: A Tale of Humans and Microbes
18 minutes
The cultures of tarhana—a fermented instant soup base—come with a long-practiced culinary tradition in the Middle East and the Balkans. Although often...
Stew of the Earth
11 minutes
Besides the leaves that a bag gathers, all you need for a cup of tea is hot water, and in the town of Furnas the earth boils it directly. I ...The Poetics of Dunes
11 minutes
I grew up by the sea, in the warm south of Portugal, swimming in the ocean and playing in the sand. I didn’t know then that my childhood playground wa...Adventures in Mockstitutions
by Jenny Price
7 minutes
“If You Need to Use the Art” is an alt-institution public art project—or a mockstitution, to use artist Gregory Sholette’s moniker. These projects mim...The Magic Mirror: Legends, Limnology, and Nuclear Power on Lake Stechlin
by Jessica Lee
15 minutes
On the horizon of the small German village of Neuglobsow, the chimney of the Rheinsberg nuclear power plant rises above the surrounding beech and pine...