natural history
Sep 2, 2026
The Thing in the Reeds
A journal entry on the bunyip, the water-dwelling being of Aboriginal folklore from the Murray-Darling basin, and how a warning about dangerous water became, in colonial hands, both a cryptid and an insult.
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Aug 10, 2026
The One Who Sees in Circles
A journey into the mountain country of Sicily and the Peloponnese in search of the Cyclopes — giant shepherds of Greek myth whose single eye may owe less to invention than to a bone in the ground.
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