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The happiness of the long distance runner
[caption id="attachment_274494" align="alignleft" width="403"] Photo: recycledminds.com[/caption] Ode to Tarahumara, Mexico Dan Haugen | July/August Issue 2012 For a people who prefer not to be seen, the Tarahumara always look fantastic,” writes Christopher McDougall in his 2009 bestseller, Born Read More...
Head in the clouds, feet on the coast
[caption id="attachment_274186" align="alignleft" width="487"] A cloud having a bad-hair-day, sneezing and sniffing at the disappearing sun over Erm, the Netherlands. © Nienke Lantman[/caption] Ode to Gavin Pretor-Pinney in Somerset, Read More...
Brain power
How neurotherapy helps the mind heal. Dewi Gigengack | July/August Issue 2012 Marty Wuttke became a pioneer in neurotherapy—the manipulation of brain waves to reduce stress, help repair damaged brains, enhance creativity and improve mental health—out of personal necessity. Back when he was a Read More...
Stargazing on the mesa
[caption id="attachment_272283" align="alignleft" width="286"] The stunning desert landscape of the Rio Mesa.[/caption] Diane Daniel | July/August Issue 2012 When University of Utah biology professors learned that the owner of Entrada Ranch, 380 remote acres in red-rock country, was looking to Read More...
5 tips for making history
Oral history for beginners. Truska Bast | July/August Issue 2012 1. Determine your central question. What is it you want to find out? Your interests will probably shift during the project, but make sure you have a focus. Delineate your territory to keep from getting bogged down. Also, ask Read More...
“No one misses what isn’t said”
Oral history shows how history connects—and heals—us. Truska Bast | July/August Issue 2012 Almost 50 years had passed before Betty Bausch-Polak, who is Jewish, spoke of her experiences during World War II. The first time was in the early 1990s, during a radio interview. “It was a difficult Read More...
Tell me a story
How storytelling feeds our craving for connection and social change. July/August Issue 2012 | Diane Daniel Pixie Windsor knows what it feels like to happen upon a murder scene, to be treated too sympathetically when you’re in a wheelchair, or to suffer silently as your co-worker takes a fall Read More...
A different kind of trade school
Megan Snowe, a New York arts administrator and passionate Russophile, will teach the basics of the Cyrillic alphabet for a handball lesson, gray or black medium-length socks (women’s size 7½) or gluten-free beer. Interactive artist Barbara Ann Michaels will take organic lettuce or a “fun, wide Read More...
Planet organic
How organic agriculture can feed the world. July/August Issue 2012 | Greg Nichols "The green desert.” Flying over Paraguay, I can see how the nickname makes perfect sense. Paraguay, about the size of California, is the world’s fourth largest exporter of soybeans. Starting in the 1970s, when Read More...
Preserve our wonder
Progress is essential, but not at the cost of our environment. July/August Issue 2012 | Amy Domini I’ll admit that I’ve never been particularly careful about honeybees. As a kid, I’d catch them in jars and threaten my younger brother with them. As a gardener, I find it fun to stare hard Read More...