Anyone who’s donned protective glasses and spent hours camped outside with eyes toward the sky knows the strange, life-changing experience of witnessing a solar eclipse. The lunar equivalents are intriguing, too, and have fascinated people around the world for...
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the image above is from a remote part of the Atacama Desert in Chile, or perhaps a broad, sandy expanse like those found in parts of Utah. But you’d have to journey quite a bit farther to reach this landscape—more than...
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the image above is from a remote part of the Atacama Desert in Chile, or perhaps a broad, sandy expanse like those found in parts of Utah. But you’d have to journey quite a bit farther to reach this landscape—more than...
In the 1800s, mycology—the study of fungi—was a relatively new field, emerging around the same time as Enlightenment-era studies in botany and herbal medicine. Science and art converged in works like Elizabeth Blackwell’s A Curious Herbal, along with German...
ALBANY, New York — Tree roots have long served as a useful metaphor for articulating connections between people, places, and ideas. And yet, it’s a limited structure. In the 1980s, French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari famously offered the rhizome as...