Whole Earth Review, Fall 1985
“Urban legends are bizarre but believed stories; traditional (i.e., fictional) accounts, but told as true. They are often quite plausible tales, but also too good to be true. They supposedly describe things that have happened to a friend-of-a-friend, the source that folklore scholars call a FOAF.”
- Published: Fall 1985
- Collection: Whole Earth Review
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Whole Earth Review, Fall 1985
- FEATURES
- A Public Proposal: Three Mile Island Historic Nuclear Park and Planned Community by Jay M. Critchley1
- We're in a 1920s Economy Interview with Paul Hawken: Just like in the Roaring ’20s, we are in a decade that is shifting its economic bearings. If we Don't take advantage of this moment of great change, we'll crash.4
- You Are the Customer, You Are the Company by Paul Hawken: Guidelines for running a business as a service to customers, and perceiving customers as a service to business.10
- Cartoon History of the United States, Chapter IV by Larry Gonick: An “insufficiently reverent” account of early American radicals, and how they got everything started with boycotts.20
- Art Into Space by Robert Horvitz: Now that NASA allows non-scientific payloads to be launched into orbit, artists are sending up their dreams.26
- Living With Aids by Matt Herron: No one is safe from the deadly AIDS virus, because it’s not merely a gay/sexual disease— it’s a contemporary human plague.34
- Saint Herpes by Stephanie Mills: With herpes, it’s not the physical discomfort that is so painful, but the change in one’s sexual behavior.54
- Being Poor in America: Poem by Cathy Naylor61
- Reflections on a Chinese Garden by John Visvader: How we view gardens mirrors our approach to wilderness. Unlike our own environmental theology, the philosophy of Chinese gardens doesn’t demand a uniform code of ethics.64
- Four Pairs by Dan Hemenway: Eight principles for designing a system that works with nature.72
- The Health Hazards of Computers edited by Art Kleiner: A guide to worrying intelligently about the possible health effects of computer video display terminals.80
- The World’s Most Achievable World Records: Photo story by Ron Jones Here are the world records for most tennis balls stuffed in a T-shirt and other unusual achievements. If you can’t break an existing world record, make up one of your own.102
- Things Which Get Lost by Carole Malkin: An old journal from a Russian grandfather is the kind of thing that can only be preserved by altering it.114
- Urban Legends in the Making by Jan Brunvand: Popularly assumed to be true, these stories may be nothing more than modern folk tales. Write the author if you’ve heard, or told, one.124
- DEPARTMENTS/REVIEWS
- SMALL BUSINESS
- Small Business Reporter16
- Catalog Age16
- Home Office18
- Sideline Business18
- WHOLE SYSTEMS
- “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”19
- The Year Ahead19
- Thinking Physics is Gedanken Physics19
- The Source25
- Ancestry’s Catalog25
- POLITICS
- The Crowded Earth32
- Co-op America32
- Catalyst Newsletters32
- Third World Quarterly33
- The Sixties Papers33
- COMMUNITY
- Rats, Lice and History50
- Plagues and Peoples51
- Advances59
- Walk Me to the Water59
- Teaching Aids at Low Cost60
- Lefthander’s Catalog60
- Hitchcock Wide Shoes for Men60
- LAND USE
- Green River Tools62
- The Garden Seed Inventory62
- The House of Boughs63
- agAccess63
- The Origins of Japan’s Modern Forests70
- Forest Planning70
- The Forest Farmer’s Handbook71
- Land-Saving Action71
- Ecological Fruit Production in the North74
- Secrets of Plant Propagation74
- SOFT TECHNOLOGY
- Alternative Environments Natural Pools75
- Gengas75
- Practical & Decorative Woodworking Joints76
- Plastering Skills76
- Airparts77
- Safe-T-Sweep77
- Armstrong Washer Specialties77
- Indoor Air Quality and Human Health78
- Slip-In-Panels78
- Superinsulated Building Newsletter78
- The Microwave Debate79
- NOMADICS
- The Amphibious Hiking Sandal96
- DEPARTMENTS/REVIEWS _
- Igas Island Outdoor Gear96
- Gorp, Glop & Glue Stew96
- Europe in 22 Days97
- Europe Map97
- Camping and Caravanning in Europe97
- Well-Traveled Books by Scott Thybony98
- Kayak Touring by Wayward Watson100
- One Day Celestial Navigation101
- The Weather Wizard’s Cloud Book101
- LEARNING
- Continuing the Tradition: a review of Jewish alternative magazines by Ya‘qub ibn Yusuf109
- Grand Street116
- The Women’s Review of Books116
- Daedalus Books117
- West With the Night117
- Finding Money for College The Scholarship Book 0118
- Kites for Everyone118
- The Penguin Book of Kites119
- Kites by Mail119
- J. A. Henckels Knives120
- Atlanta Cutlery120
- Smoky Mountain Knife Works120
- Kestrel Crooked Knife120
- Dolan’s Sports121
- Cabela’s121
- Asian World of Martial Arts121
- ComBow121
- Good Movies by Sheila Benson123
- COMMUNICATIONS
- Vitali Import Company131
- Elderly Instruments131
- Ferree’s Tools132
- Shar Products132
- QRS132
- The Guitar Owner’s Manual133
- Homespun Tapes133
- Recordings of Experimental Music134
- OPtion134
- BACKSCATTER
- Echoes from readers back to Whole Earth Review135
- GATE FIVE ROAD
- Gossip139
- New Subscription Address140
- Back issues/further issues140
- “Or Whole Earth Access”140
- “Or Computer Literacy”140
- Abbreviation Glossary140
- Unclassifieds Are Back141
- WER Node141
- Puzzle Answer141
- Masthead141
- Financial Report142
- Thank You142
- WHOLE EARTH SOFTWARE CATALOG
- ORGANIZING
- THE SMART INTEGRATED SOFTWARE SYSTEM17
- ANALYZING
- STATGRAPHICS17
- ETC.
- FAMILY ROOTS25
- Quinsept25
- HARDWARE
- Terminal Shock79
- The Skeptical Consumer’s Guide to Used Computers94
- Before You Buy a Used Computer94
- Computer Classified Bluebook94
- The Plain English Repair and Maintenance Guide for Home Computers95
- Guide to Electronics in the Home95
- PLAYING
- MAC VEGAS122
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