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The Onion Has More Than You
Zine No. 107 — Young Readers A read-aloud about a thing everybody says about you that turns out not to work — and what an onion has to do with it, with every source kept on the page for the grown-up.
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Wonders for Young Readers
Short, curious pieces about plants, animals, genes and stars, written for younger readers and anyone who loves to wonder.
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The Same Four Letters
Zine No. 105 — Young Readers A read-aloud about the four letters that everything alive is written with, and the one thing about them nobody checks — with something you can try, and every source kept…
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Just Right For Whom?
Zine No. 104 — Young Readers A read-aloud about the warm band around a star, where Earth actually sits in it, and why nothing alive has the same one — with every source kept on the page for the…
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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 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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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 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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More Than One Way to Spell It
Zine No. 106 — Young Readers A read-aloud about reading three letters at a time, and finding out that nearly everything has several right spellings — with something you can try, and every source kept…
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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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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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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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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 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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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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Bone Song, Read Aloud
Zine No. 95 — Young Readers Two true things about the bone inside your arm — the read-aloud door into Bone Song, Zine No. 1, which is where the argument lives.
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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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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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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…
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Strike “His”
Zine No. 90 — Star Gazing On the kinky, poly, gender-fluid, queer sex lives of Terran life — what a fish does to its own cell memory in ten days, what a fungus does with twenty-three thousand mating…
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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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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.