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Book Reviews from punk eek

Into the Fire, our book review column run by Jonathan Russell Clark, engages with environmentally focused literature and prioritizes depth, context, and inquiry over recommendation alone. Our goal is rigorous, thoughtful engagement with works published in the environmental space.

Where Art and Science Meet: <em>Maria Popova’s Traversal</em>
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Where Art and Science Meet: <em>Maria Popova’s Traversal</em>

There are no exploration points more vital to our present moment than the intersections between art and science. Though such a statement sounds lofty, it couldn’t be more grounded and relevant. This space, or, as Maria Popova puts it in her new masterwork Traversal, “the Venn diagram of the humanistic and scientific,” is where we most effectively learn the nuanced distinctions between fact and opinion, between correlation and causation, and between care and expediency.

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