Adaptive Aesthetics
A Matter of Degrees
Comparing the rewards of small-scale farming to those recounted by Thoreau
Forget the opium, savor the poppy flowers
Science has its rewards and punishments
Discover gray whales in the isolated San Ignacio lagoon
A nation is deļ¬ned by what it preserves.
The way they live, the food they eat, and the effect on us
A true but unlikely tale
Story and Photographs by William Rowan
Increasing day length on the early Earth boosted oxygen released by photosynthetic cyanobacteria.