OCTOBER 2026

The Station.

Find your bearings. Your passage and the publication are both within reach.

PASSENGER SERVICES

Your place aboard.

PASSAGE STATUS

CHECKING YOUR PASSAGE…

Iowa · Don McCulley / Wikimedia Commons · CC0 · 2018

NEW OCTOBER PACKAGE · FOOD + PEOPLE

What happens when not enough arrives? →

In a place that grows so much, a nourishing meal can still be difficult to reach. Follow Iowa’s harvest into household budgets, public money and practical alternatives.

Six substantial public reports. Four deeper Passenger continuations.

October launch: grow more food—and make it pay →Begin in Iowa →

NEW OCTOBER INVESTIGATION · TOMORROW

Intelligence Is Not Wisdom. ↗

Who decides what our most powerful problem-solving tools solve? Follow science into access, institutions and the consequences of a decision.

OCTOBER RESEARCH EXPANSION

What happens after we put it there? ↗

Ten connected investigations follow materials, timing, evidence and access through the systems they enter.

SEVEN RAILS · ENDLESS DESTINATIONS

Choose where to begin.

Seven ways into the same living system. Start with a place you know, then follow the question beyond it.

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WATER

Follow the water we use and the living world it moves through.

BEGIN WITH A STORY When rain moves plastic ↗

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SOIL

Begin beneath the surface, where roots, organisms and inputs meet.

BEGIN WITH A STORY When the soil changes the fertilizer ↗

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FOOD

See the journey from growing and processing to an ordinary meal.

BEGIN WITH A STORY The real environment is a mixture ↗

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HEALTH

Follow what the living world can mean inside a body, one question at a time.

BEGIN WITH A STORY What do we know about pesticides and health? ↗

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PEOPLE

Bring the wider system back to ordinary lives and usable choices.

BEGIN WITH A STORY Can healthy food actually be afforded? ↗

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PLANET

Trace what moves across land, water, air and living systems.

BEGIN WITH A STORY The label is not the whole material ↗

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