Goats on Acid
Just say “maaah”
Issue 8 / Pharmacopia / Fall 2002
Million Dollar Point
The US military’s underwater dump in the Pacific
Issue 10 / Property / Spring 2003
Inflationary Models
Balloons in fashion
Issue 11 / Flight / Summer 2003
A Timeline of Timelines
A device turned on itself
Issue 13 / Futures / Spring 2004
Triskelion
The migrations of a symbol
Issue 13 / Futures / Spring 2004
By the Numbers: An Interview with William L. Bird, Jr.
Painting a picture of the middle class
Issue 15 / The Average / Fall 2004
Leftovers / Not in Our Backyard: An Interview with Jim Puckett
Your old computer is killing people
Issue 16 / The Sea / Winter 2004–2005
Wide at the Bottom, Narrow at the Top
King Louis-Philippe and the pear
Issue 17 / Laughter / Spring 2005
Inventory / How to Join the Men’s Auxillary
Valerie Solanas and the enemies and allies of SCUM
Issue 18 / Fictional States / Summer 2005
What’s Luck Got to Do with It?
The genius of cheating
Issue 19 / Chance / Fall 2005
Harnessing Niagara Falls
Lighting the Path of Progress
Issue 19 / Chance / Fall 2005
Blinded by the Light
The art of illumination
Issue 21 / Electricity / Spring 2006
Ways of Seeing
Alfred Yarbus’s science of visual attention
Issue 30 / The Underground / Summer 2008
Making Up Hollywood
Max Factor and the invention of modern cosmetics
Issue 51 / Wheels / Fall 2013
Indexes, In Praise Of
Last but not least
Issue 52 / Celebration / Winter 2013-2014
Mass Effect
In the shadow of Giant Rock
Issue 53 / Stones / Spring 2014
Inventory / On The Dot
The patchwork beauty of mouches
Issue 56 / Sports / Winter 2014-2015
Ingestion / Fishing for Vitamin A
The shark liver oil craze of the 1940s
Issue 57 / Catastrophe / Spring 2015
Beige Stage
How Technicolor invented the Hollywood palette
Issue 67 / Dreams / Spring 2019–Winter 2020