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GRATITUDE 
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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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Men 

Chloe Chapman, June 3, 2022 0 3 min read  
Men, 2022, Written and Directed by Alex Garland Alex Garland’s brand new film, Men, released May 20, 2022, is a beautiful and terrifying masterpiece, unique in its hard-hitting themes and shocking imagery. Viewers are introduced to Harper (Jessie Buckley),...
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Mid90s 

Chloe Chapman, May 6, 2022 0 4 min read  
Jonah Hill’s Mid90s is a unique coming-of-age film from 2018 that is as tender and sweet as it is heart-wrenching. The film follows Stevie (Sunny Suljic), a troubled 13-year-old living in Los Angeles in the 1990s who becomes enamored...
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More Than Sex Ed 

Chloe Chapman, November 5, 2021 0 4 min read  
According to a recent study, around 60% of American teenagers have already had sex by the time they graduate high school (Guttmacher Institute, 2020). Many parents delay talking to their kids about sex until they feel their child is...