By Dr. Wallace J Nichols from Wild Hope Magazine, Fall 2012 Two decades ago I took my first turtle job in a village called Tortuguero. As a research assistant my job was to study green turtles, protect eggs, tag and measure turtles, occasionally guide visitors, and learn from fellow biologists…
When I was a kid, I loved to pop the little bubbles in my bubble wrap. I'd work the entire sheet until every bubble was popped. Sometimes they were tiny little bubbles. Sometimes they were big fat bubbles. I felt great satisfaction with each "pop". These days, when I get…
"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."…
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…
