Betsy Langman

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Glaciers for Sale

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By McKenzie Funk

Blood Spore

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By Hamilton Morris

Other Types of Poison

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By Rebecca Makkai

May I Touch Your Hair?

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By Julie Hecht

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[Editor's Note]

Introducing the July 2013 Issue of Harper’s Magazine

A global-warming get-rich-quick scheme, a magic-mushroom murder,
and more

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Glaciers for Sale

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By McKenzie Funk

“Water is the medium of climate change — the ice that melts, the seas that rise. It is also an early indicator of how humanity may respond to climate change: by financializing it.”

Photograph (detail) by Aaron Huey

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The Coming Ice Age

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By Betty Friedan

“How a rising of the ocean waters may flood most of our port cities within the foreseeable future . . .”

“The Glacier of Sermitsialik” (1872)

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What the Young Man Should Know

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From the March 1933 issue

By Robert Littell

“I submit that he who cannot do these things is not completely educated.”

Illustration by Elizabeth Shippen Green (1902)

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Blood Spore

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By Hamilton Morris

“The strange timing of Pollock’s murder begot paranoia of all shades and textures . . .”

Photograph by Paul Stamets

Ratio of the number of cicada eggs per square mile of southern New Jersey to the number of stars in the Milky Way:

4:5

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Jeffrey Lockwood, University of Wyoming (Laramie)/American Museum of Natural History (N.Y.C.)

A Singaporean company unveiled Kissenger, a pair of plastic lips mounted on a large plastic egg, which transmits real-time interactive kisses to a distant lover. “I am not interested in the sexual uses for it,” said the device’s inventor. “We’ve taken several steps to minimize the creepiness.”

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