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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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SMC Classes 

TNT Staff, August 9, 2024 0 2 min read  
Free Online SMC Sustainability Certificates & Courses Sustainability Classes and Certificates for your current career or to help you onto a new green path. Santa Monica College delivers high quality, relevant education, and training designed to give you the...
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A Wee Bit Coin 

Suzanne Guldimann, July 26, 2024 0 4 min read  
Bitcoin? Real estate tokenization? Nope. This real estate token predates the current craze for blockchain assets by a hundred years. This coin was struck by the promoters of the Sylvia Park Development Company in 1924, and it offered the...
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The Last Word 

Jimmy P. Morgan, July 26, 2024 0 11 min read  
We have been reminded lately— on more than one occasion—that the protections afforded by the US Constitution’s system of checks and balances are vulnerable to manipulation by bad actors. This is perhaps most threatening when the singular chief executive,...