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The Google Maps of Dead Bugs

Our new assistant editor, Mariah, says she doesn’t normally like to meditate on zoomed-in photographs of dead bugs. (“Hairy feelers, shiny compound eyeballs. I would skip those spreads in National Geographic.”) But this massive project at the Berlin Museum of Natural History might actually change her mind. As The New York Timesreported last month, there are a lot of efforts to put museum collections online. ...

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Issue 35 / November 12, 2015
  1. Editor's Note from November 12, 2015

    Issue 35: Fractals, zombie ants, and a dashing evangelist-monk. / Ted Olsen

  2. Why Fractals Are So Beautiful

    We’re finding infinitely complex, self-similar shapes all over creation. And we’re just getting started. / Joel Bezaire

  3. I Want to Be a Zombie Ant

    How a fungus can turn an insect into a new creature bent to its own will. / Chad Meeks

  4. The Handsome, Pun-Loving Missionary Who Teased Popes

    Columbanus died 1,400 years ago this month, having re-evangelized Western Europe. / Ted Olsen

  5. Big Cottonwood Canyon

    “Resurrection must be like this” / Ken Smith

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