• Seashells: Ancient Treasures of the Shore

    Over one hundred thousand years ago, in the dark recesses of a cave in Southern Africa, someone threaded a perforated shell onto a sinew cord and wore it as ornamentation. Archaeologists discovered those Nassarius shells—brought…

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  • The Ocean’s Architecture: A History of the Seashell

    Pick up a shell from the tideline, and you are holding a structure built without hands, a calcium carbonate cathedral secreted one microscopic layer at a time by a creature with no brain. The seashell…

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  • The Annual Escape: Why Summer Vacation Still Saves Us

    There is a moment on every summer vacation when time stops pretending to hurry. It usually happens barefoot, on warm sand, with a shell in your hand. You are not checking the clock. You are…

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