Stories by James Burke

In his final column, James Burke discusses matters bucolic, adulterous, explosive, decorative, passionate and (fittingly) fugitive

James Burke employs body snatching, mastodons, Great White Explorers, journalism, war, raincoats and malaria to literary ends

James Burke draws monumental conclusions from wax, dinner sets, greenhouses, Argentina, prisons and the king of beasts

Booze, dope, metaphysics and other rhapsodic matters¿
James Burke airs a few Renaissance thoughts

James Burke explores crystals, sheepish matters, monster chicks,
poets and other smoke-and-mirrors stuff

Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum¿buried treasure and pirates, novelists and politics¿James Burke tours life on the high seas

From Beethoven and Dickens to the chemistry of urine to "siderism"--not all science ends with a Nobel, notes James Burke

In which we visit singers, fiddlers, fertilizers and health freaks and, James Burke observes, it all goes down the drain

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The king's horticulturist thought nature needed a haircut.