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Time to Vote! 
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Mushroom Madness 
Suzanne Guldimann, November 1, 2024 0  
Fungi can cure or kill, nourish life, and also decompose it back into soil. Fossil evidence for fungi is limited, but the ability to analyze molecular data has led to revelations about the evolution of this extraordinary family of...
Fool’s Gold: The Myth of Tiburcio Vasquez 
Suzanne Guldimann, October 18, 2024 0  
“And still of a winter’s night, they say,  when the wind is in the trees, When the moon is a ghostly galleon  tossed upon cloudy seas,    When the road is a ribbon of moonlight  over the purple moor,    A...
Billions in Flight: Migratory Birds 
Suzanne Guldimann, September 20, 2024 0  
Autumn doesn’t officially begin until the equinox on September 22, but all across North America birds are already on the wing—billions of them. Migration times and destinations vary based on the species and variables like weather and food sources—some...
One-Room Schoolhouse 
Suzanne Guldimann, September 6, 2024 0  
Back to school. A hundred years ago in Topanga, it would have been on foot—and often barefoot—to the little, red, one-room schoolhouse by the creek in the bend of the dirt road.  Public education in California was still relatively...
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Endangered Species Act Restored 

TNT Staff, July 15, 2022 0 2 min read  
A Federal Judge has restored endangered species act protections that were seriously weakened by the Trump Administration. The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled in favor of the coalition of conservation and animal welfare organizations...
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Soul Colors 

TNT Staff, July 15, 2022 1 1 min read  
Born in Zimbabwe, Africa, Michael Chinyamurindi, has lived in Topanga Canyon for two decades. “Art has always been present in my environment! Creativity is the Poor Man’s Las Vegas. The only Classical Training I have is as an Actor,...
E-Issues

Summer in July 

Suzanne Guldimann, July 1, 2022 0 4 min read  
Do we really live in a country where rapists are valued more than the women they assault? Where a handful of extremists with an almost non-existent understanding of human biology have the power to strip millions of women of...
Books & Such

Play Ball! 

Jimmy P. Morgan, July 1, 2022 1 10 min read  
I recently revisited one of the finest baseball books of all time: George Will’s Men At Work: The Craft of Baseball (1990). I offer as evidence the book’s ability to stir in me some early baseball-esque memories. When I...