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By JONATHAN STABLEFORD

How many times have I heard someone say, “Books are dead, no one reads anymore”? It may be true that reading habits have changed (I’d argue that young people who spend a lot of time online are actually reading a lot.) and that there has been a steady...

By JONATHAN STABLEFORD

I’m staring out my window into the deep woods, where the trees are swaying like a gospel choir and releasing clouds of last night’s snow. The temperature is barely above freezing, but what I see looks like winter. January brought us a little of...

By JONATHAN STABLEFORD

Lately, the notion of sleep, particularly the discovery that I seem to need more of it in this stage of my life, have been rattling around in my mind. I understand that my body needs sleep, and I’ll admit to a cowardly surrender to it at the end of a...

By JONATHAN STABLEFORD

As I stared across the water at Mount Desert Island, my phone told me that the mountains rising from the sea were due east and that the porch where I sat was 10 feet above sea level. These were facts I could see with my eyes, but modern times require...