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Natalie Angier

Natalie Angier is a science columnist for The New York Times and the author of Woman, The Canon, and other books.

Why We Need Art

Can evolutionary biology explain the human impulse to create?

by Natalie Angier | Monday, December 04, 2017

Birthday Suit

by Natalie Angier | Friday, September 01, 2006

The Crisis Up Close

Wandering our warming world

by Natalie Angier | Wednesday, December 10, 2014

A Taste for Higher Math

The numbers that count

by Natalie Angier | Wednesday, March 04, 2015

Science Doubters

When healthy skepticism turns into unhealthy antagonism

by Natalie Angier | Tuesday, December 01, 2009

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THIS WEEK’S ARCHIVE PICK

Remembering W. S. Merwin

by John Kaag

W. S. Merwin, one of the most celebrated and prolific poets of his generation, died last Friday at the age of 91. A former U.S. poet laureate and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, Merwin was also known for his work as a conservationist. After moving to Hawaii in the 1970s, he began the decades-long project of restoring different plant species to the former pineapple plantation where he lived. Merwin was notoriously difficult to contact, but in the fall of last year, John Kaag managed to interview him over the phone. Merwin, he reports, repeated the same lines throughout their conversation: “The time of wisdom cannot be measured, and, for me, wisdom is the garden. There is no time in the garden.” In an essay for the Scholar, Kaag explores this relationship between gardening and the passage of time, and how it is reflected in Merwin’s life and poetry.