Whole Earth Index

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.”

Sections:
  1. Features
  2. Departments/Reviews
  3. Whole Earth Software Catalog
Whole Earth Review, Fall 1985
  1. FEATURES
      1. A Public Proposal: Three Mile Island Historic Nuclear Park and Planned Community by Jay M. Critchley
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      2. 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.
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      3. 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.
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      4. 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.
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      5. Art Into Space by Robert Horvitz: Now that NASA allows non-scientific payloads to be launched into orbit, artists are sending up their dreams.
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      6. 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.
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      7. 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.
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      8. Being Poor in America: Poem by Cathy Naylor
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      9. 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.
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      10. Four Pairs by Dan Hemenway: Eight principles for designing a system that works with nature.
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      11. The Health Hazards of Computers edited by Art Kleiner: A guide to worrying intelligently about the possible health effects of computer video display terminals.
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      12. 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.
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      13. 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.
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      14. 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.
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  2. DEPARTMENTS/REVIEWS
    1. SMALL BUSINESS
      1. Small Business Reporter
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      2. Catalog Age
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      3. Home Office
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      4. Sideline Business
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    2. WHOLE SYSTEMS
      1. “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”
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      2. The Year Ahead
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      3. Thinking Physics is Gedanken Physics
        19
      4. The Source
        25
      5. Ancestry’s Catalog
        25
    3. POLITICS
      1. The Crowded Earth
        32
      2. Co-op America
        32
      3. Catalyst Newsletters
        32
      4. Third World Quarterly
        33
      5. The Sixties Papers
        33
    4. COMMUNITY
      1. Rats, Lice and History
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      2. Plagues and Peoples
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      3. Advances
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      4. Walk Me to the Water
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      5. Teaching Aids at Low Cost
        60
      6. Lefthander’s Catalog
        60
      7. Hitchcock Wide Shoes for Men
        60
    5. LAND USE
      1. Green River Tools
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      2. The Garden Seed Inventory
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      3. The House of Boughs
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      4. agAccess
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      5. The Origins of Japan’s Modern Forests
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      6. Forest Planning
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      7. The Forest Farmer’s Handbook
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      8. Land-Saving Action
        71
      9. Ecological Fruit Production in the North
        74
      10. Secrets of Plant Propagation
        74
    6. SOFT TECHNOLOGY
      1. Alternative Environments Natural Pools
        75
      2. Gengas
        75
      3. Practical & Decorative Woodworking Joints
        76
      4. Plastering Skills
        76
      5. Airparts
        77
      6. Safe-T-Sweep
        77
      7. Armstrong Washer Specialties
        77
      8. Indoor Air Quality and Human Health
        78
      9. Slip-In-Panels
        78
      10. Superinsulated Building Newsletter
        78
      11. The Microwave Debate
        79
    7. NOMADICS
      1. The Amphibious Hiking Sandal
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    8. DEPARTMENTS/REVIEWS _
      1. Igas Island Outdoor Gear
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      2. Gorp, Glop & Glue Stew
        96
      3. Europe in 22 Days
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      4. Europe Map
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      5. Camping and Caravanning in Europe
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      6. Well-Traveled Books by Scott Thybony
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      7. Kayak Touring by Wayward Watson
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      8. One Day Celestial Navigation
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      9. The Weather Wizard’s Cloud Book
        101
    9. LEARNING
      1. Continuing the Tradition: a review of Jewish alternative magazines by Ya‘qub ibn Yusuf
        109
      2. Grand Street
        116
      3. The Women’s Review of Books
        116
      4. Daedalus Books
        117
      5. West With the Night
        117
      6. Finding Money for College The Scholarship Book 0
        118
      7. Kites for Everyone
        118
      8. The Penguin Book of Kites
        119
      9. Kites by Mail
        119
      10. J. A. Henckels Knives
        120
      11. Atlanta Cutlery
        120
      12. Smoky Mountain Knife Works
        120
      13. Kestrel Crooked Knife
        120
      14. Dolan’s Sports
        121
      15. Cabela’s
        121
      16. Asian World of Martial Arts
        121
      17. ComBow
        121
      18. Good Movies by Sheila Benson
        123
    10. COMMUNICATIONS
      1. Vitali Import Company
        131
      2. Elderly Instruments
        131
      3. Ferree’s Tools
        132
      4. Shar Products
        132
      5. QRS
        132
      6. The Guitar Owner’s Manual
        133
      7. Homespun Tapes
        133
      8. Recordings of Experimental Music
        134
      9. OPtion
        134
    11. BACKSCATTER
      1. Echoes from readers back to Whole Earth Review
        135
    12. GATE FIVE ROAD
      1. Gossip
        139
      2. New Subscription Address
        140
      3. Back issues/further issues
        140
      4. “Or Whole Earth Access”
        140
      5. “Or Computer Literacy”
        140
      6. Abbreviation Glossary
        140
      7. Unclassifieds Are Back
        141
      8. WER Node
        141
      9. Puzzle Answer
        141
      10. Masthead
        141
      11. Financial Report
        142
      12. Thank You
        142
  3. WHOLE EARTH SOFTWARE CATALOG
    1. ORGANIZING
      1. THE SMART INTEGRATED SOFTWARE SYSTEM
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    2. ANALYZING
      1. STATGRAPHICS
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    3. ETC.
      1. FAMILY ROOTS
        25
      2. Quinsept
        25
    4. HARDWARE
      1. Terminal Shock
        79
      2. The Skeptical Consumer’s Guide to Used Computers
        94
      3. Before You Buy a Used Computer
        94
      4. Computer Classified Bluebook
        94
      5. The Plain English Repair and Maintenance Guide for Home Computers
        95
      6. Guide to Electronics in the Home
        95
    5. PLAYING
      1. MAC VEGAS
        122
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