Look to the Land: Visualizing Change in Agriculture
Recent trends in data visualization suggest powerful new ways of exploring environmental change over time.
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“It’s Only Whites Who Go There”: On Safari in Uganda
A safari trip inspires wonder at both what is found in a game park and who is not.
Borderlands: Between Places and Landscapes
A poetic reflection on place, landscape, and our physical and mental journeys through them.
An Eye for Winter: In Praise of Local Beauty
What is there to love about winter in a frigid place like Wisconsin? Lots, if you’re willing to look.
Whatever. . . Never Mind, or Old Torvald Skaalen Died on Saturday
A story at the intersection of truth, lies, memory, and imagination set in the Norwegian-American cultural landscape of Stoughton, Wisconsin.
Edgy Stuff: January 2015 Recommendations
January 2015 recommendations from the Edge Effects editorial board.
On Edge in the “Devil’s Gardens” of Bosnia
In Bosnia, the beauty of the mountains is filtered by fear: in some places, the dangerous residues of war hide just below the Earth’s surface.
Review: Martin Blaser’s Missing Microbes
Martin Blaser worries that “missing microbes” may be responsible for a whole host of modern ailments.
The Close City: An Exhibit on Nature in New York
This photo series explores the tensions between permanence and transience in New York City’s urban landscapes.
The “Eyes” Don’t Always Have It: Eight Films to Change Your Perspective on the World
Feeling trapped in an altogether human view of the world? These eight short films prompt viewers to, for a moment, abandon the familiar and instead examine issues like time and scale through surprising non-human perspectives.
