trees
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Malus Domestica
Apples do not grow “true to seed,” meaning that what you put in the ground isn’t always what comes back out of it.
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Rumpus Exclusive: “Ada Bloom Finds the Windmill”
Ada followed her song deeper into the bush, until the windmill loomed up before her.
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Metamorphoses: The Uninhabitable Earth and The Overstory
And then, from this scorched landscape, transformation.
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The Election and the Ash Borer
Does it matter what words a sign says when a symbol says so much more? A white X. A carved swastika. Things get torn down from less.
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Weekly Geekery
Opening the doors of Silicon Valley’s male-dominated culture. The Internet’s deep rift. Facebook, but for trees. Remembering Dawkins.
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If Trees Could Touch-Type
Just when you thought long-form communication was dead. The city of Melbourne gave email addresses to trees, which has incurred an outpouring of love letters and even exchanges between people and their addressee-trees.
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Weekly Geekery
Computers are judging you. Sexy robot story! Sexy robot story! “Trolls of mine, so undivine…” A wasteland of bodies. If it’s between money and trees, take the trees.
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Weekly Geekery
Are video games the new social commentary? Are we ready to give them the weight of other media? The Internet is fomenting another revolution. Librarians: bespectacled superheroes for your rights. Growing a library. A book written pre-Internet, sheds light on…
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Frankenstein, The Tree with Forty Fruit
Miraculous, and not a flaming sword near it—Sam Van Aken’s project marries sculpture and agriculture and genetics and a little bit of wonder. I was able to see the grafting process while growing up on a farm and have always…
