Spring/Summer 2008                                                        Volume 6.1                                                 last updated  Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Isotope Issues

Browse the current and past issues of Isotope below.


Spring/Summer 2008

 

Issue 6.1

Two From Down Under:
A Faster Kind
of Sandstone &
Shackleton’s Photographer
Comes Back Home

46 Views of My Fuji

Construction
of a Rainbow

Leap Second, Websites
in the Desert, Skinny
Dipping—and More

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

Issue 5.1

David Gessner's Foxy Field Notes

The Rope Swing, the Swastika, and the Oldest Whale

Remembering Mount St. Helens

Kate Breakey's Still Lives

Geyerscapes, Thermodynamics, Colons—and More

 

Issue 5.2

Announcing Project V.E.C.T.O.R.L.O.S.S. & the Dawn of Vernacular Witnessing

Young Emily's Herbarium

Trace Elements

Sonnets Beam Up Scotty!

Tasty Counterfeit Salmon, Two from Ryukyu, The Provision Tree, Treadmills-and More

 

 

Issue 4.1

Roger Mitchell Finds Another Use For Marl

Eric Alan’s Images of Wild Grace

Coyote on a Cloud of Nitrogen

A Biology Slide Show, Guerilla Gardening, Emily and Einstein –and More

 

 

Issue 4.2

Caroline Van Hemert:
Pink Noise
Inside and Out
[Web-only bonus essay
Homeland Security]

Janaki Lennie’s Starless Starscapes

May Swenson Finds a Maiden
In the Grass

2006 Editors’ Prizes,
Billions and Billions
of Stanzas, Bamboo,
Wrecklamation—and More

 

 

Issue 3.1

Winners of the First Annual Editors’ Prizes

Lisa Couturier Tracks Big Apple Wilderness and Communes with Vultures

Painter Richard Gate Reclaims the Cosmos

Zoom Lenses, an Empty Sea, Tautogs, Hounds of Light–and More

 

 

Issue 3.2

Voices From the Ice: ANTARCTICA

Ceiridwen Terrill On Driving a Species From Extinction

Painter Margaret Elliot’s Echoes of Another World

Garnets, Ecdysis, Reactor Woods, Desert Fires–and More

 

Issue 2.1

Gods, Astronomers and Mauna Kea: An essay by John Q. McDonald

Images of the toxic and microscopic: The Art of Jane Catlin

What’s to be done about Montana’s Smallest Fish?

Mary Swander Skips the Long-Horned Sheep

Chasing Whales, Roadkill Here, Landfill There, Mad Max—and More

 

 

Issue 2.2

Scientists & Writers Respond to Sallie Tisdale’s “Sexual Planet”

Evoking New Zealand’s Landscapes: The Ambiguous Reality of Pat Unger

Why Nature is for Losers

A Mad Dash for a Dead Duck

X-Rays,
Spades,
Zen Trout-and More

 

Issue 1.1

Where Desire and Relief Meet at Last: Essays by Catherine Reid

Sex, History, and Science in Jonathan Holden’s “Dr. Strangelove”

The Inspired Logics of the Post Surrealists

Pattiann Rogers on Wonder in Science and Poetry

 

Issue 1.2

Walking with Elephants: A Photo-Essay by Cheryl Merril

John Price Discovers Why Snow Geese Don’t Winter in Paradise

A Biologist’s Passage to Renewal

Ectoplasm, Dragonflies, Virga, Reasons for Lawns–and More