"In 1987, I was a nineteen-year-old biology student at DePauw University, a small liberal arts college in Greencastle, Indiana," Wallace J. Nichols writes in Catamaran Literary Reader, a new quarterly print magazine. The marine biologist and author, a 1989 DePauw graduate, offers an essay titled "Outré Banks of the Mind."…
Ends & Means, Pacific-Union Club November 1, 2012 Luncheon, Sponsored by Will Evers, Jr., Member of The Pacific-Union Club Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 12:00 PM (PDT), San Francisco, CA Why The Ocean Needs Neuroscientists, Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, California Academy of Sciences Dr. Wallace J. Nichols believes that the…
The moon governs the tides, as it always has.Heat, evaporation, the earth's rotation, and wind collaborate on storms. Just as they have for billions of years.You live on a former sand dune. You live in a flood plain. You live on a filled-in wetland. Your basement is below sea level.You've…
First published Oct 2012 in the Catamaran Literary Reader, paintings by Ran Ortner. Outre' Banks of the Mind by Wallace J. Nichols outre' (oo’tre) adjective. Unusual and startling, violating convention or propriety: “in 1975 the suggestion was considered outre'—today it is orthodox.” ORIGIN French, literally “exceeded,” past participle of outrer…
directed by @tiffanyshlain, music by MobyA DECLARATION OF INTERDEPENDENCE is a cloud film by the filmmakers behind the feature film CONNECTED (in theaters now, http://www.connectedthefilm.com).It premiered simultaneously at Interdependence Day Sept 12, 2011 in New York near Ground Zero and as a featured video on YouTube's homepage.To declare your interdependence…
