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The Quiet Mathematics of Us
We are not always roses, or sunsets painted gold; sometimes we are two tired souls arguing over something old. You steal the blanket, I steal the last bite, we disagree about everything then laugh before the night. Love is not
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The County Mows in July and That Is the Whole Story
County Road 12, west side, between the culvert and the section line: on 28 June I counted blooming stems in ten one-metre quadrats and got a mean of 41, dominated by common milkweed, bergamot and t…
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Every Secondhand Copy Is Cracked in the Same Place
I own four used copies of the same nineteenth-century novel, bought at different times and in different states, and if you stand them on a table and look at the spines from the side, three of them …
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When the Mountains Moved: Nepal's Bhote Koshi Flood and the Race to Help
On the morning of Wednesday, August 26, 2026, a wall of water, mud, and rock tore down the Bhote Koshi valley in northern Nepal, sweeping away homes, bridges, and entire stretches of road in a matter of minutes. Flooding began
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The Inquiry Was Asked About Events After the Fourteenth
The terms of reference for the inquiry run to a page and a half. It is a document of a kind Indian commissions of inquiry have been constituted by for seventy-five years, and the operative clause a…
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Doubling a Very Small Number Gives You a Very Small Number
A headline in front of me says a thing doubles your risk. The paper it is describing reports that the outcome occurred in about one person in ten thousand in the unexposed group and about two in te…
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They Are Right That the Comments Are Uninformed
The officials who sit through public comment at the county budget hearing and privately describe it as theatre are right about the comments. I have listened to eleven years of them. A large share a…
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The School Ends at Sixteen and the Road Only Goes One Way
The school in the village goes to class ten. Class eleven and twelve — what everybody calls plus two — are in the town, which is two and a half hours by bus when the road is open and is not always …
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Every One of Those Beetles Was Collected at the County Courthouse
There are 214 occurrence records for a particular ground beetle in one midwestern county in the aggregated database most people use, and 189 of them share the same latitude and longitude to six dec…
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The Novel About Us Was Written in a Language Almost None of Us Reads
The bookshop in McLeod Ganj has a shelf of Tibetan writing and about nine tenths of it is in English. Memoirs, mostly. Two novels. A collection of essays that I have taught from. All by Tibetans, a…
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