Sacred & Mundane

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When Plants Tweet

It’s said that talking to your plants may help them grow, but what if those plants started responding? Would they demand human blood, as the carnivorous and vocal Audrey II did Continue reading

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Sacred & Mundane

March/April 2009 Sacred & Mundane articles include: “Fuzzy Forensics,” by Laural A. Neme “Spy Flies,” by Kathleen Yale “From Wall Street to Green Street,” by Ginger Strand “Requiem for a Drowning Continue reading

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Spy Flies

For thousands of years humans have used animals for transportation, trade, and farming. We’ve used homing pigeons to deliver covert messages, sent sentinel canaries down coal mines, and ridden horses, camels, Continue reading

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A Share in the Shear

At a recent farmers’ market, a woman came to look at Susan Gibbs’s skeins of dyed wool laid out for sale. “Isn’t that nice,” Gibbs remembers the woman saying. “The farmer’s Continue reading

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My Space

For as long as humans have claimed territories, we’ve been faced with the need to defend them. The most proactive defense is to make boundary lines obvious so that potential competitors Continue reading