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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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Paradise 

Suzanne Guldimann, July 15, 2022 0 3 min read  
“Very near terrestrial paradise,” that’s how Frederick Hastings Rindge, the 19th century industrialist and philanthropist who once owned the entire Rancho Topanga Malibu Sequit, described life here. And more than a hundred years later, it still is, isn’t it?...
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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...
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Earth Day 2022 

Suzanne Guldimann, April 22, 2022 0 3 min read  
April 22 is Earth Day. This year marks the 52nd anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. It’s a movement that was in part ignited by one of California’s worst ecological disasters: the catastrophic Union...
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Tomato Mania 

Suzanne Guldimann, April 8, 2022 0 3 min read  
Easter is on April 17 this year, closely following the start of Passover, on April 15. These two holidays, so deeply rooted in the miraculous, invite us to reflect on death without fear. They are a profound reaffirmation of...