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  • Published
    January 13, 2016

    A morphology of Maine winter

    On some January afternoons, the only things breathing are words, writes Dana Wilde.

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    December 30, 2015

    The value of a fact

    The Earth is not flat, it never has been, and no one but a careless-minded handful ever thought so, writes Dana Wilde.

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    December 23, 2015

    Holiday cheer to help us through the darkest days

    The sun is at its lowest high point in the sky and winter is about to set in hard, so we might as well celebrate the recent harvest and the remnants of our summer cheer, writes Dana Wilde.

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    December 9, 2015

    The amazing grace of the great blue heron

    The underpinning of our experience here on Earth is our experience of its beauty, writes Dana Wilde.

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    November 25, 2015

    November’s gray dissolution is astounding

    This time of year is kind of a magnificent desolation that telescopes your mind, Dana Wilde writes.

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    November 11, 2015

    An unsettling view of life from the backyard

    With scientific signs pointing toward extraterrestrial life, Dana Wilde ponders the unsettling questions raised by mounting evidence that we're not alone in the universe.

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    October 28, 2015

    Here at the end of October

    Next year's firewood is cut, split, stacked and permanently covered beside The Shed, part of the fall ritual, writes columnist Dana Wilde.

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    October 21, 2015

    The biochemical brains of butterflies

    Some researchers are starting to think that brain size, and specifically the number of neurons, doesn't exactly correlate to cognitive ability, writes columnist Dana Wilde.

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    October 7, 2015

    The night of the lunar eclipse

    Waiting for the Earth's shadow to cover the whole wafer of white moon, Dana Wilde ponders facts of our inner psychic reality.

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    September 23, 2015

    The fascination of decorations

    Even if you missed the black-and-yellow female spider patiently waiting, your eye might be drawn to the thick white zigzag of silk at the center of her web, writes Dana Wilde.