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Time to Vote! 
November 1, 2024 0 78  
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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Coming Full Cycle 

Miles Zaud, July 14, 2023 2 6 min read  
I don’t yet drive but I’ve been driven plenty, and my drivers often subscribe to a creed that goes something like this: The road’s too small for cars and cyclists to coexist. The car is the fastest mode of...
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Clothing Optional 

TNT Staff, July 14, 2023 0 6 min read  
COVER: Why was nudism such a big thing in the 1970s? Was it a reaction to repressive American mid-century modern conformity? A rejection of Puritanical prudery? Part of the new health and fitness phenomenon? Or just the latest fad?...
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These Truths 

Jimmy P. Morgan, July 14, 2023 0 5 min read  
In the introduction to her marvelous single volume political history of the United States—These Truths: A History of the United States (2018)—historian Jill Lepore shares a documented moment which illustrates the very nature of the founding of our country....
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Birkenstock It to Me 

Elizabeth Guldimann, June 30, 2023 0 6 min read  
“Crunchy Topanga hippies wearing their Birkenstocks,” conjures an image of a Topangan, anywhere from 1966 through the present day, enjoying life in comfortable shoes.  I’m sitting here next to the editor of TNT as I write this introduction. I’m...