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Rain in the distance from a single cloud at sunset over Milwaukee June 21.
Photo by Michael Timm.
Photo by Michael Timm.
Online Magazine of the Liberal Arts for General Audiences
Books I've Found Worthwhile Recently
- Acquiring Genomes: A Theory of the Origins of Species by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan
- Deception Point by Dan Brown
- Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
- Greek Mythology for Everyone: Legends of the Gods and Heroes by Donald Richardson
- Signs of the Inka Khipu: Binary Coding in the Andean Knotted-String Records by Gary Urton
- The Children of Odin: The Book of Northern Myths translated by Padraic Colum
- The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World by Matthew Stewart
- The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Republic by Plato
- The Symposium by Plato
- Wanderlust: A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit
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On Bubblers
A bubbler is a more parsimonious, fun, and local term for what some of you English speakers call a drinking fountain. Photo by Michael Timm.
On Platypuses
Platypuses—yes, that's the preferred plural—are quite remarkable creatures. Not only are they egg-laying mammals, but they have a sixth sense. Their duckbills function as an electrosensory organ, similar to how dolphins use echolocation, only with electromagnetic fields instead of sound waves. They are so sensitive that many a platypus died of sensory overload from being transported by boat across the Pacific.
The platypus is known as a peculiar creature, with attributes seemingly cobbled together from any number of other animals, but that's only because of our frame of reference. It's certainly well adapted to its own environment, swimming in rivers and swamps and darting across land, burrowing into underground mud nests. Females lactate but have no teats; young obtain milky secretions directly from their mother's underbelly. Males have a poisonous horny spur—presumed a weapon in courtship fights.
Although the species is threatened by habitat destruction, the platypus' survival reminds us of the artificiality of humankind's categorical systems in the face of natural spontaneity, adaptation, and diversity. And also emboldens those among us who can relate to taxonomical isolation.
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