Articles in this Issue
Our First Mission Isn’t Finished
There’s plenty left to name in the sometimes silly, always vast field of taxonomy.
The Surprising Riches of Fool’s Gold
Pyrite, the stone rejected as an imposter, is the cornerstone of the modern world.
Let Us Now Praise Obscure, Useless Plants
God and I delight in piratebush like he delights in me.
Fetal Heartbeat
“like the wings of millions of monarchs returned”
Wonder on the Web
Issue 45: Links to amazing stuff.
Editor’s Note from March 31, 2016
Issue 45: The fun in naming, how pyrite changed the world, and why it’s fine that piratebush didn’t change much of anything.