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1 month ago | 
scientificamerican.com | Emma Marris
Sadie has spent years hiding her problem from her family. In her day job, she works as a purchasing agent for a scientific firm, which requires placing large orders for everything from chemical reagents to US$8-million worth of glass vials. But in her personal time, Sadie goes on buying sprees for herself.
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1 month ago | 
nature.com | Emma Marris
Sadie has spent years hiding her problem from her family. In her day job, she works as a purchasing agent for a scientific firm, which requires placing large orders for everything from chemical reagents to US$8-million worth of glass vials. But in her personal time, Sadie goes on buying sprees for herself.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
nature.com | Emma Marris
The vase is tan with abstract designs in black: curved triangles that swoop into circles, a motif with an elegant, organic flow. It looks contemporary, or perhaps like the work of a mid-century artist on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. This ceramic piece is in a museum, but not in any modern wing. Found as fragments in 2006 at an archaeological site in Poduri, Romania, the vase is the work of an unknown artist from some 6,000 years ago.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
hakaimagazine.com | Emma Marris
When I was a teenager in the mid-1990s, I had a friend whose family owned an unimproved lot on Dabob Bay, a bay off a fjord nestled deep in the southern Salish Sea, in Washington State. My group of friends, almost all of us the broke, angst-ridden, poorly supervised children of divorce, would camp there on weekends. We swam, sunbathed topless without sunscreen, smoked weed and drank liquor purloined from our parents, and danced around bonfires listening to Portishead.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
pdxmonthly.com | Emma Marris
Fungi, if you haven’t noticed, are the “it” kingdom of life these days. You can’t go far in the Portland area without running into toadstool-patterned socks or a delicious mycological menu item, from the king oyster mushrooms in the Dtom Som shrimp at Hat Yai to basically everything at West Linn’s new fungi-obsessed Chantrel.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
shorturl.at | Emma Marris
Fungi, if you haven’t noticed, are the “it” kingdom of life these days. You can’t go far in the Portland area without running into toadstool-patterned socks or a delicious mycological menu item, from the king oyster mushrooms in the Dtom Som shrimp at Hat Yai to basically everything at West Linn’s new fungi-obsessed Chantrel.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
nature.com | Emma Marris
Hair found wedged in the broken teeth of famous lions killed in the nineteenth century offers a glimpse of their diet — which included humans1. Few wild lions (Panthera leo) are as well-known as the ‘Man-eaters of Tsavo’, two large maneless males that terrorized workers constructing the Kenya–Uganda Railway until they were shot by a railway administrator, lieutenant-colonel John Henry Patterson, in 1898.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
nature.com | Emma Marris
The Many Lives of James Lovelock: Science, Secrets and Gaia Theory Jonathan Watts Canongate Books (2024)Today, it might seem self-evident that life on Earth shapes, and is shaped by, its environment. We learn in school that the oxygen we breathe is produced by plants, for instance. For those of us aware of the climate crisis, feedback loops between human activity and the global climate system are never far from our minds.
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Aug 10, 2024 | 
angrybearblog.com | Emma Marris |Bill Haskell
by Emma Marris AB: I grew up with trees around us in the city of Chicago. Mostly giant Ash trees or the soft wood maples. They provided shade to the front and back of the house. Our first home in Wood Dale had a giant Burr Oak next to the garage and a Hickory in the middle of the back yard near the well. In Madison Wisconsin I planted trees and the same holds true in Michigan just north of Ann Arbor.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
theatlantic.com | Emma Marris
Listen0:009:09Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. On a 92-degree Saturday afternoon in Portland, Oregon, I went looking for shade in Cully Park, which was built on top of an old landfill and opened in 2018. The city included plenty of trees in the design—I mean, this is Oregon. But those trees are still slender saplings, each throwing enough shade for maybe a chihuahua.
