Spring 2026 #49

As much as we attempt to wrestle matter into shapes and press it into utility, matter shapes us too; it pushes back, choreographing our movements by its resistances, affinities, transformations, temporalities, preferences. - A. Laurie Palmer 

Editor’s Note:
You’ve made it through the tangle of stuff and the fog of notions to this little roost in the infoscape, the Center’s 49th newsletter. Welcome! In this issue we focus on critical minerals, further evidence that matter matters, maybe more than ever. We are materialists, before and after all, and clearly the mineral elements are the roots of everything on earth, even all the ones and zeroes. We are glad to have you aboard as we go to ground, one more time, looking for the right questions to ask amid the ocean of answers already out there.