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Wagner Free Institute of Science, Aye-Aye specimen in Exhibition Hall

Ideas

America’s Endangered Natural History Museums Hold the DNA Secrets of a Vanishing World

If it's true we're on the verge of a sixth extinction, these smaller collections offer crucial perspectives—and specimens—that bigger museums simply can't provide.

Colin Dickey

A view of the Harlem Valley from the Appalachian Trail in Pawling, New York.

Field Notes
Issue #69: December/January 2019
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Letter From Pawling, New York: An Afternoon at Nuclear Lake

A secluded, Edenic lake just a mile off the Appalachian Trail was once the site of a fight in which locals tried hard to keep people away from what they believed to be an environmental menace. Were they right to?

Colin Dickey

Social Justice

This Last of Meeting Places

Confronting our mortality with vague metaphors, religious glosses, and computer analogies.

Colin Dickey