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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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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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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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Which Distortion
5 September 2026 — Glimmers Nobody at any step became more accurate. They got better at choosing, and better at saying so.
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The Lizard That Was Never There
Zine No. 85 — How We Got Here On a word that meant “border”, the diagram it turned into, and the eight years by which the refutation beat the bestseller.
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Until There Were Ten
2 September 2026 — Glimmers A thing that never changes and has no counterexample is very hard to tell apart from a rule.
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The Play You Keep
Zine No. 82 — Star Stuff On forty-five bumble bees, nine hundred and ten rolls of a wooden ball, and the definition science had to write down before it could see doing nothing at all.
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Monotropa Uniflora and Monotropism
Monotropa Uniflora & Monotropism: A Tribute to Dinah Murray