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Perfect Paul
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From the cover of Cartoons Magazine, January 1916. Like everyone else, I am weary of talking about the weather. But it’s not the banality of the talk that bothers me. Talking about weather is as...
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Perfect Paul
Our ongoing quest to personify the weather. Arthur Rackham, 1912. As I write this, the ominously named Winter Storm Thor is bringing his hammer down on the tristate area. Thor is pelting. Thor is...
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In Which Mark Twain Perspires
Sam Clemens in September 1867. A letter from Mark Twain to John T. Moore, July 1859. Moore, also known as Tom, was an “old river man” and a longtime friend of Twain’s. More than twenty years later, in...
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Letter from COP21, Part 2
All photos © Sara Fox Read Part 1 here. Day 6 Negotiators submitted a historic draft agreement today: mostly brackets and multiple choice options, but progress is more important than details right now....
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In Defense of Moist
Yum. Many people hate the word moist. Indeed, it has become almost expected to hate the word moist, with its connotations of limp handshakes, cloying Uriah Heep types, and creeping damp. A recent study...
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Year Without a Summer
The climate event that helped create Frankenstein and the bicycle. A depiction of the Mount Tambora eruption. Last year marked the two hundredth anniversary of the eruption of Indonesia’s Mount...
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The Dreams
Henri-Edmond Cross, Landscape with Stars, ca. 1905–1908, watercolor over graphite on white wove paper, 9 5/8″ x 12 5/8″. Karen Fish’s poem “The Dreams” appeared in our Winter 1989 issue. Night arrives...
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