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The source and the matrix

According to the U.S. Geological Survey’s Water Science School, the body of the average adult human is about 60 percent water. Water makes up about 73 percent of the brain and heart; 83 percent …

I see you

In that odd way that words and ideas sometimes seem to leap off the screen and align themselves, I experienced a tsunami of synchronicity over the past few weeks. It started innocently enough …

Desperate measures

What does desperation look like? New conservative energy-related bills at the state and federal levels are unabashedly designed to limit consumer choice and gut health protections in order to …

Why we shouldn’t be ‘cooking with gas’

Legend has it that in the 1930s, when lots of Americans still cooked with wood or coal, an advertising executive came up with a catchy way to promote natural gas for cooking. Deke Houlgate worked for …

Inconvenient realities keep getting in the way

While their proximity may have been completely unintentional, the pairing of two headlines on January 17 carried a heady jolt of irony: “Disasters displaced 3 million Americans last year” was the lead energy and environment story for Rachel Franzin and Zack Budryk at The Hill.

Brief glances of understanding

In numerous folk traditions, mid-winter is marked by uncanny goings-on, including the legend that animals can talk at midnight on Christmas Eve. What they reveal during this magical time can be benevolent or foreboding, depending on the storyteller.