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Coral and coralations with Melody Jue and Ann Elias
There's living coral, and then there's Coral—the iconicity and imaginary of living coral. As Melody Jue writes in Coralations, coral alternates between signifying an o...
Super 100th Spectacular!
University of Minnesota Press, est. 1925, turns 100 this year. Yes, we are twice as old as Saturday Night Live. And just as old as The New Yorker and The Great Gatsby....
Playhouses and the architecture of childhood.
Between the 1850s and 1930s, before playhouses for children reached the mainstream, they were often fully functional cottages designed by well-known architects for Bri...
“I want to be a living work of art”: On the Marchesa Luisa Casati
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It’s a microbe’s world. We just live in it.
Microbes: We can’t see them, but we have no choice but to live with them. Microbes have significant, enduring impacts on human health and remind us to resist the abstr...