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Film (Earth Primer #2)

(Earth Primer #1) When I travel around, giving lectures on soil, I ask my listeners—who sometimes are children—how deep it is. In response, some people say a mile or two, others say hundreds of yards. They all imagine it limitless; you can tell by the seriousness in their hesitations, the sort that . . .

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War (Earth Primer #1)

N.B. With this post, we inaugurate a weekly series penned by the brilliant Italian novelist and soil scientist Giacomo Sartori. We’ll be posting a new column each Friday, so stay tuned! Wars are as unfortunate for the earth as they are for people. The aerial footage from the battles in Ukraine showing . . .

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