Mara Altman

Nov 11, 2024 | sandiegomagazine.com | Mateo Hoke |Cole Novak |Mara Altman

In 2020, Kat Alexander experienced a serious mental health crisis that would last more than a year. In 2022, she and her best friend, author and beloved San Diego Magazine contributor Mara Altman, began chronicling the crisis and its aftermath in what would eventually become EPISODES: The True Story of Two Friends & One Diagnosis, an Audible original audio book debuting this week. Read by Alexander and Altman, Episodes is a braided narrative of memory.

Oct 16, 2024 | sandiegomagazine.com | Mara Altman |Grace Kiehnle

“[Platypuses] are all kinds of wrong,” says Hendrik Nollens, vice president of Wildlife Health with San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. “They’re a mammal, they lay eggs, they have a mouth that looks like the bill of a duck, the males are venomous…” Still, watching the Frankensteined critters—the only two in the world outside of Australia—dart around the water in their home at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park feels, well, all kinds of right.

Oct 11, 2024 | sandiegomagazine.com | Mara Altman |Cole Novak

When Wolfgang Busch first became mesmerized by plant roots as a young scientist, he didn’t realize they could potentially help save the world. He was captivated by how, without a brain, they could do things like actively track down nutrients. Now, he believes the simple root—the unsung underground hero of foliage and flora everywhere—might just be the buffer between us and climate devastation. Over billions of years, Busch explains, plants have evolved to take up carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air.

Aug 28, 2024 | sandiegomagazine.com | Mara Altman |Amelia Rodriguez |Amelia Rodríguez

Mark Hoddle lifts the top off a hanging trap and points down at about 20 wriggling, hefty, snout-nosed, black weevils. “They are charismatic-looking,” he says. His job is to destroy them. Hoddle is an entomologist at the University of California, Riverside. We are standing in the middle of the Sweetwater Reserve in Bonita, a kind of real-life Hieronymus Bosch painting illustrating an imminent arboreal hell. It’s a palm tree boneyard.

Jul 10, 2024 | es.ara.cat | Mara Altman |Catherine Pearson |Rachel Fairbank |Xavier Fina

Bienestar Estilo Relaciones Aunque la altura está muy bien vista socialmente, las personas bajas tienen algunas ventajas desconocidas y poco valoradas 6 min Nueva YorkDesde mi punto de vista -a una altura exactamente de 1,52 metros-, ser alta es una fantasía de superioridad muy extendida que debería haberse jubilado hace tiempo. La exaltación de la altura tenía sentido cuando facilitaba la supervivencia.