“Shoes are deeply personal, literally moulded to our lives. But they create our social lives as much as express them.”
History
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The Wild Within the Walls
“From antiquity to modern times, Rome has been entangled with the wild animals who creep, slither, scurry, and nest among its pillars and palaces.”
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Picture This: A Tectonic Revolution
“With one map, Marie Tharp revealed the raw, rifted depths of the Atlantic—and changed what we thought we knew about the Earth.”
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To Steal a Whale Bone
“There’s something about the thrill of discovery that can make a person believe what they’ve found is theirs now—to claim, to guard, to name.”
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My Father Tries to Teach Me His Map of Chicago
“He’s been the cartographer all along, steadfastly believing I’d learn to read his directions.”
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The Murder, the Museum and the Monument
“How the discovery of a long-lost monument shattered the trust between a Japanese American community and the museum built to preserve their history.”
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The Dam, the Myth, the Legend: 50 Years of the Beaver
“An exploration of the buck-toothed, flat-tailed, landscape-shifting icon celebrating 50 years as Canada’s national symbol.”
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Is God a Mushroom?
“New research into the role of psychedelics upends our understanding of spirituality—and with it, our vision of the cosmos.”