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Mushroom Madness 
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 
“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 
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 
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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Behaving Badly II 

After penning biographies of four individual Supreme Court Justices—Sandra Day O’Connor, Antonin Scalia, Sonia Sotomayor, and John Roberts—CNN’s Senior Supreme Court Analyst Joan Biskupic has now produced a scathing indictment of the current Court and its 6-3 conservative majority;...
Books & Such

Behaving Badly 

In The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic (2023), constitutional scholar Stephen Vladek argues that since the mid-2010s, the Supreme Court of the United States has been deploying their...