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The New Year reminds us that the Earth is also beginning something new — a new journey around the sun. Writer Jill Sisson Quinn reflects on our experience of the Earth’s rotation and the words we choose to describe that passage.

Commentator Jill Sisson Quinn is a nature writer and teacher in Central Wisconsin.

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Two killer whales surface through the ice. A dozen orcas were trapped and facing near-certain death in the frozen expanse of Canada’s...

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Saturday Night Live and Portlandia personality Fred Armisen co-hosts This American Life with Ira Glass. This week’s theme: doppelgangers. Armisen...

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If you’re anything like me, January 11th isn’t just the day the renowned beer-brewers John Molson and Carl Jacobsen died—it’s also the...

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Goodbye!

Have a great weekend, friends.

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