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The Blood Was Made of Ants
Zine No. 103 — Kin on a lizard that borrowed everything, the ant it borrowed it from, and a comeback story told backwards
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Star Stuff and Living Things
Animals, plants and the long story of life, told by curious minds for curious minds of any age.
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The Channel You Cannot Mask
Zine No. 97 — Star Stuff On four dogs, thirty-six strangers, 675 correct trials out of 720, and why the quiet room with the dogs is restful for a reason nobody flatters anybody by naming.
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Two Things on One Leaf
Zine No. 92 — Star Stuff On thirty frogs in a stock tank that perch on absolutely everything, a leaf that is quietly moving several litres of air a day into airless mud, and the pairing we invented…
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Nobody Set Out To Do This
Zine No. 89 — Star Stuff On a course held to better than a degree that nobody can explain, the ocean’s largest cargo carried by an animal that is not eating, and what it means that the missing…
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Older Than Either of Us
Zine No. 86 — Star Stuff On the right angles in a pigeon’s forebrain, three papers that disagree about where they came from, and what belonging looks like under either answer.
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Two Peppers
Zine No. 87 — Star Stuff On the point past which more light does nothing, one species that answered the same shade in two different ways, and what it takes to stop calling one of them a failure.
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From the Edge of the Gyre: Yeats, Symphrenia and the Centre that Cannot Hold
An Autistic ADHD, symphrenic reading of Yeats’s “The Second Coming”: why the centre cannot hold, and how community without a centre can hold us instead.
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It Happened Where You Are Sitting
Zine No. 111 — Star Stuff On a beginning with no location, an observable universe that does have a centre, and the difference between no preferred place and no preferred frame.
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Fourteen Kinds of Doing
Zine No. 110 — Star Stuff A byline has one field and contribution does not — what happened when the format was pushed to 5,154 names, what got built instead, and the practice that follows at any…
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A Field Guide to Missing Names
Field Guide No. 25 — Field Guides Eleven pieces of work sorted not by how famous the person was but by how the name came off — because “she was not given credit” is not one event. It is five…
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A Bit of Scruff
Zine No. 109 — Young Readers A read-aloud about somebody who read three and a half miles of paper, found one messy bit, and did not throw it away — and about saying who found things, with every…
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Too Narrow
Zine No. 108 — How We Got Here On the sentence Schrödinger wrote immediately after coining the genetic code — and the eighty years the rest of us spent keeping only the first half of it.
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The Preferred Flower of Life
Monotropa uniflora, the ghost pipe: a plant with no chlorophyll that feeds off fungi, the flower Emily Dickinson called the preferred flower of life, and the Greek root it shares with monotropism.
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It Stays Green, and Then It Goes
Zine No. 102 — Young Readers A read-aloud about what a leaf actually does in autumn — which is not what anybody thinks — with every source kept on the page for the grown-up.
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One Ear Higher Than the Other
Zine No. 101 — Young Readers A read-aloud about a bird whose two ears disagree about up and down — with something you can try, and every source kept on the page for the grown-up.
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Almost All of It Is Holes
Zine No. 100 — Young Readers A read-aloud about a seed that flies on the parts that are not there — with something you can try, and every source kept on the page for the grown-up.
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The Dog Breathes Out Sideways
Zine No. 99 — Young Readers A read-aloud about a nose that does not blow the smell away — with something you can try, and every source kept on the page for the grown-up.
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Nobody Knows Where the Dog Came From
Zine No. 98 — How We Got Here On the first animal we ever domesticated, a skull that was a dog and then a wolf, two camps who stopped speaking, and a truce that produced a better answer than anyone…
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The Cuttlefish That Can’t See Colour
Zine No. 96 — Young Readers It matches whatever it sits on, it cannot see colour, and nobody has worked out how — read-aloud science for four to eight, with every source kept on the page where the…
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How this site is made
The design of Queering Earth: a Victorian herbarium sheet as the model, biophilic ground rules, the palette, the type, the drawings, and what we mean by specimen, sheet, plate, and label.
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Seeds That Wait
Zine No. 93 — Young Readers Some seeds do nothing at all when you plant them, and they are not broken — read-aloud science for four to eight, with every source kept on the page where the grown-up can…
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The Colours You Cannot See
Zine No. 94 — Young Readers There are patterns on flowers that your eyes have no part for, and they are really there — read-aloud science for four to eight, with every source kept on the page where…
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Nobody in This Pond Is Late
Zine No. 91 — Young Readers A frog changes, an axolotl never does, and both of them are grown-ups — read-aloud science for four to eight, with every source kept on the page where the grown-up can…
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A Field Guide to the Sexes
Field Guide No. 24 — Field Guides Nineteen organisms sorted not by how strange they are but by which assumption each one breaks — because “there are two sexes and you are one of them” is five claims…